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| Founded | 1978 | |||
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| Fleet size | 16 | |||
| Destinations | 7 | |||
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany | |||
| Key people | O. Markow (CEO) | |||
| Website | http://www.flygermania.de/ | |||
Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH is an airline with its headquarters in Berlin, Germany.[1] With its flight operations based at Berlin Tegel Airport, Germania operates mainly dry and wet lease services for other airlines as well as chartered services to the Mediterranean (predominantly to Turkey), North Africa and Kosovo. Germania also offers scheduled low-cost flights under its own brand to a limited number of destinations, most of them from their second base at Düsseldorf International Airport.
The airline had 647 employees as of March 2007.[2]
History
The airline was founded in April 1978 as Special Air Transport (SAT) in Cologne and started operations on 5 Sep 1978. with a Fokker F-27. In November 1978, a Sud Aviation Caravelle war purchased from LTU, which was replaced by two used Boeing 727-100 from Hapag-Lloyd Flug (now TUIfly). Germania Express has adopted the IATA code "ST" which was previously used by Yanda Airlines.
In spring 1986, the company was re-organised and its name was changed to Germania on 1 Jun 1986.[2] For many years, Germania's main area of doing business were charter services for TUI, Condor Flugdienst and Neckermann Reisen – an area in which Germania earned a reputation for offering the lowest prices. In 1992 the registered office was relocated to Tegel. In the same year Germania won the bid for flight services between the old and new capital of Germany (Bonn and Berlin) on behalf of the German government, establishing a short-lived Beamten-Shuttle (German for “shuttle for civil servants”). In 1998, the airline pioneered the use of aircraft for advertising in Germany (advertisers included Siemens and various tour operators). In the same year, Germania began to lease more and more planes to other airlines such as Hapag-Lloyd Express, Maersk and Delta.
In June 2003, Germania started to offer tickets directly to passengers under the brand Germania Express (gexx). Following a purchase of a 64 % stake in dba (now part of Air Berlin) on 28 Mar 2005, Germania wet-leased 12 Fokker 100 aircraft to dba. At the same time, dba took over Germania Express's 15 established low-cost routes and thus absorbed Germania's gexx brand. Germania on the other hand, with all aircraft having been leased to other airlines, no longer offered routes directly to passengers. While the partial merger between Germania and dba was already reversed in the summer of 2005, the cooperation of Germania and dba was extended to 14 Fokker 100 aircraft. Air Berlin chief, Joachim Hunold, was tasked by Germania owner, Hinrich Bischoff, to take charge of the future of the company shortly before Bischoff's death on 11 Nov 2005. However, an agreement between Bischoff and Hunold was not reached in the end as Bischoff's heirs refused to accept.
Germania started to offer flights under its own brand once more beginning with the summer schedule 2008. The airline now offers scheduled flights out of Berlin, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, as well as from Basel. However, in the light of the current financial crisis, plans for a further network extension were postponed.
Destinations
As of October 2009, Germania operates the following scheduled services under their own airline code [1]. This list excludes flights operated for Air Berlin and TUIfly.
Germania also offers a wide range of charter flights, most of them to Turkey.
Fleet
The Germania fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 18 December 2009): [3]
- 7 Boeing 737-300 (2 aircraft operated for Air Berlin, 1 aircraft for TUIfly)
- 9 Boeing 737-700 (6 aircraft operated for Air Berlin)
Aircraft operated by another airline are painted in the respective colours.
The average age of the Germania fleet is 14.5 years.
References
- ^ "Contact." Germania Airline. Retrieved on October 12, 2009.
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 86. 2007-04-03.
- ^ http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=ST&al_op=1 Germania fleet list at ch-aviation.ch. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
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