Lufthansa CityLine

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Lufthansa CityLine
IATA CL	ICAO CLH	Callsign HANSALINE
Founded		1958 as Ostfriesische Lufttaxi[2]
Hubs		Frankfurt International Airport Munich - Franz Josef Strauß Int'l Airport
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		Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Headquarters		Cologne, Germany
Key people		Wolfgang Mayrhuber (CEO), Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley (CFO)
Website: lufthansacityline.com/en/index.php

Lufthansa Regional CityLine Avro RJ85 landing

CRJ-100

Lufthansa CityLine GmbH is an airline based in Cologne, Germany.^[1] It is a wholly owned subsidiary regional airline 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 International Airport, Düsseldorf International Airport and Munich International Airport ^[2].

[edit] 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).^[2].

[edit] Destinations

As of March 2009, Lufthansa CityLine operated the following services^[3] :

• 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.

[edit] Fleet

The Lufthansa CityLine fleet includes the following aircraft (October 2008)^[4] :

The average Lufthansa CityLine fleet age is 8.3 years old in October 2008 ^[5].

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 ^[6].

Lufthansa placed an order on April 17, 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 November 22nd, 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.^[7].

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Lufthansa CityLine (English)
• Lufthansa CityLine (German)
• Lufthansa Group

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