Lufthansa CityLine GmbH

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.

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..

Destinations

As of August 2010, Lufthansa CityLine operated the following services:

Domestic

• • Berlin - Berlin-Tegel Airport
  • Bremen - Bremen Airport
  • Cologne/Bonn - Cologne Bonn Airport
  • Dresden - Dresden Airport
  • Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf International Airport
  • Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport
  • Friedrichshafen - Friedrichshafen Airport
  • Hamburg - Hamburg Airport
  • Hanover - Hannover Airport
  • Leipzig/Halle - Leipzig/Halle Airport
  • Munich - Munich Airport
  • Münster/Osnabrück - Münster Osnabrück Airport
  • Nuremberg - Nuremberg Airport
  • Paderborn - Paderborn Lippstadt Airport
  • Rostock - Rostock Laage Airport
  • Stuttgart - Stuttgart Airport
  • Westerland - Sylt Airport

International

• Albania
  • Tirana - Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza
• Austria
  • Linz - Linz Airport
  • Vienna - Vienna International Airport
• Belgium
  • Brussels - Brussels Airport
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Sarajevo - Sarajevo International Airport
• Bulgaria
  • Sofia - Sofia Airport [begins 31 October]
• Croatia
  • Dubrovnik - Dubrovnik Airport
  • Split - Split Airport
  • Zagreb - Zagreb Airport
• Czech Republic
  • Prague - Ruzyně Airport
• Denmark
  • Billund - Billund Airport
  • Copenhagen - Copenhagen Airport
• Finland
  • Helsinki - Helsinki-Vantaa Airport
• France
  • Bastia - Bastia - Poretta Airport
  • Lyon - Saint-Exupéry Airport
  • Marseilles - Marseille Provence Airport
  • Mulhouse - EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
  • Nice - Côte d'Azur Airport
  • Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport
  • Toulouse - Toulouse Blagnac Airport
• Hungary
  • Budapest - Budapest Ferihegy International Airport
• Italy
  • Bari - Bari Airport
  • Cagliari - Cagliari-Elmas Airport
  • Florence - Peretola Airport
  • Milan - Malpensa Airport
  • Naples - Naples Airport
  • Olbia - Olbia - Costa Smeralda Airport [seasonal]
  • Rome - Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport
• Lithuania
  • Vilnius - Vilnius International Airport
• Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg - Luxembourg – Findel Airport [begins 31 October]
• Netherlands
  • Amsterdam - Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
• Norway
  • Bergen - Bergen Airport, Flesland
  • Oslo - Oslo Airport, Gardermoen
  • Stavanger - Stavanger Airport, Sola
• Poland
  • Gdańsk - Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport
  • Katowice - Katowice International Airport
  • Kraków - John Paul II International Airport
  • Poznań - Poznań-Ławica Airport
  • Rzeszów - Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport
  • Warsaw - Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport
  • Wrocław - Copernicus Airport Wrocław
• Romania
  • București - Henri Coandă International Airport
  • Sibiu - Sibiu International Airport
  • Timişoara - Traian Vuia International Airport
• Russia
  • Rostov - Rostov-on-Don Airport
• Serbia
  • Belgrade - Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport
• Spain
  • Barcelona - Barcelona Airport
  • Bilbao - Bilbao Airport
  • Madrid - Barajas Airport
  • Valencia - Valencia Airport
• Sweden
  • Gothenburg - Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport
  • Stockholm - Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
• Switzerland
  • Basel-EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
  • Geneva - Geneva International Airport
  • Zürich - Zürich Airport
• Turkey
  • Bursa - Yenişehir Airport
• Ukraine
  • Donetsk - Donetsk International Airport
  • Kiev - Boryspil International Airport
• United Kingdom
  • Birmingham - Birmingham International Airport
  • Inverness - Inverness Airport
  • London
    • London City Airport
    • London Heathrow Airport
  • Manchester - Manchester Airport
  • Newcastle upon Tyne - Newcastle Airport
  • Newquay - Newquay Cornwall Airport

Fleet

The Lufthansa CityLine fleet includes the following aircraft (at July 2010):

The average Lufthansa CityLine fleet age is 8.3 years old in October 2008.

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.

Lufthansa placed an order on 17 April 2007 for 30 Embraer E-190/195 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.

source: Wikipedia

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