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Germanwings GmbH was [1] a German low-cost airline wholly owned by Lufthansa [2] which operated under the Eurowings brand. It was based in Cologne with hubs at Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport, Hamburg Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport, Munich Airport and further bases at Hannover Airport and Dortmund Airport.
Coinciding with the start of several low-cost airlines in Germany, Cologne/Bonn opened new capacities. This enabled the airport to make competitive offers to the airlines. Consequently, Germanwings and TUIfly started operations from Cologne/Bonn as their hub in the fall of 2002. As a result, the number of passengers in 2003 rose by 43% compared ...
As of October 2015, German low-cost carrier Germanwings served the following destinations. ... Cologne/Bonn: Germany: CGN: EDDK: Cologne Bonn Airport [12] Corfu ...
Eurowings GmbH is a German low-cost carrier [4] headquartered in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, [3] [5] and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group.Founded in 1996, it serves a network of domestic and European destinations and maintains bases at several airports throughout Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic.
Germanwings headquarters in Cologne: flags at half-mast following loss of Flight 9525. Lufthansa chief executive officer Carsten Spohr visited the crash location the day following the crash; he said it was "the darkest day for Lufthansa in its 60-year history". [128]
This airline offered fewer seats per plane (114 instead of the normal 172). The main operating base was in Munich and from there it flew to Frankfurt, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg and Paris. German Wings was the first (and unsuccessful) attempt at attacking Lufthansa's domestic stronghold. The airline had all Business class service.
Hapag-Lloyd Express was established in 2002 and began operations in December 2002 – two months after Germanwings, its direct German competitor at Cologne Bonn. Despite starting its service later and serving fewer routes, HLX gained a higher name recognition and a better reputation through its category-defining campaign "Fly for the price of a ...
In October 2015, Eurowings began to serve several destinations formerly served by the Germanwings brand. [2] In early 2021, Eurowings removed all of their long-haul destinations, which had been served from Düsseldorf, Munich and Frankfurt from their network. [ 3 ]