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| Founded | 1958 as Ostfriesische Lufttaxi | |||
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| Hubs | Frankfurt Airport Munich Airport |
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| Focus cities | All major German airports | |||
| Frequent flyer program | Miles & More | |||
| Member lounge | Senator Lounge | |||
| Alliance | Star Alliance | |||
| Fleet size | 72 (+15 orders) | |||
| Destinations | 75 | |||
| Parent company | Lufthansa | |||
| Headquarters | Cologne, Germany | |||
| Key people | Wolfgang Mayrhuber (CEO), Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley (CFO) | |||
| Website | http://www.lufthansacityline.com | |||
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Lufthansa CityLine GmbH is a regional airline based in Cologne, Germany. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa and member of the Lufthansa Regional network. It is the largest regional airline in Europe. Its main base is Cologne Bonn Airport, with hubs at Hamburg Airport, Frankfurt Airport, Düsseldorf International Airport and Munich Airport [1].
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History
The airline was founded as Ostfriesische Lufttaxi (OLT) in 1958 and became Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT) in 1970 (still exists today as a separate airline) in Emden. It was reorganised and renamed as DLT Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH on 1 October 1974 and began cooperation with Lufthansa in 1978 with short-range international routes. By 1988 all operations were on behalf of Lufthansa. In March 1992 DLT became a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa and was renamed Lufthansa CityLine. It had 2,520 employees at July 2007.[1].
Destinations
As of March 2009, Lufthansa CityLine operated the following services[2] :
- Domestic scheduled destinations: Berlin, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt and Stuttgart.
- International scheduled destinations: Amsterdam, Balaton, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Bastia, Belgrade, Bergen, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bordeaux, Bornholm, Brussels, Budapest, Cagliari, Cluj-Napoca, Copenhagen, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Florence, Gdańsk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Inverness, Katowice, Kiev, Kraków, Linz, London, Lyons, Madrid, Manchester, Marseilles, Milan, Naples, Newquay, Newcastle, Nice, Olbia, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome, Rostov, Rzeszów, Sarajevo, Sofia, Stavanger, Stockholm, Timişoara, Tirana, Toulouse, Valencia, Verona, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Westerland, Wroclaw, Zagreb and Zürich.
Fleet
The Lufthansa CityLine fleet includes the following aircraft (October 2009)[3] :
| Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers | Routes | Notes |
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| Avro RJ85 | 18 | 0 | 93 | Germany domestic and Europe | To be replaced by Bombardier CSeries. Exit from service: 2014. |
| Bombardier CRJ100 | 10 | 0 | 48 | Germany domestic and Europe | |
| Bombardier CRJ200 | 12 | 0 | 50 | Germany domestic and Europe | |
| Bombardier CRJ700 | 20 | 0 | 70 | Germany domestic and Europe | |
| Bombardier CRJ900 | 12 | 15 | 84 | Germany domestic and Europe | |
| Embraer E-195 | 2 | 18 | 112 | Germany domestic and Europe | |
| Total | 74 | 33 |
The average Lufthansa CityLine fleet age is 8.3 years old in October 2008 [4].
Lease extensions have been signed on 13 of the Avro RJ85 fleet, which means they will remain in service with the airline well into the next decade [5].
Lufthansa placed an order on 17 April 2007 for 30 Embraer E-190 and 15 Bombardier CRJ-900 aircraft to directly replace its fleet of BAe 146 and Avro RJ aircraft, of which 18 are operated by Lufthansa CityLine and 24 by Swiss European Air Lines.
On 22 November 2008, Lufthansa Cityline announced it will reduce its Bombardier CRJ200 fleet by almost 60% within a year starting in early 2009. The reason given was that the aircraft type was getting old and too costly to operate compared to more modern competitors.[6].
References
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 108. 2007-04-03.
- ^ Lufthansa CityLine destinations
- ^ [1]
- ^ Lufthansa CityLine Fleet Age
- ^ Airliner World, January 2007
- ^ Lufthansa CityLine to cut 14 CRJ200s
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