XL Airways Germany
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| IATA code : | X4 |
| ICAO code : | GXL |
| Call sign : | STARDUST |
| Founding: | 2006 |
| Operation stopped: | 2012 |
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Moerfelden-Walldorf , Germany
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| Home airport : | Frankfurt am Main |
| Company form: | GmbH |
| Management: | Bertolt Flick |
| Fleet size: | 5 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| XL Airways Germany ceased operations in 2012. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
XL Airways Germany was a German charter airline based in Mörfelden-Walldorf and the technical base at Frankfurt am Main Airport .
history
XL Airways Germany was founded in early 2006 by the Icelandic investment company Hf. Eimskipafélag Íslands . It changed its name to 6 July 2006 under the working title AGAIRCOM GmbH , which for A vion G erman Air line Com pany was, and then by the beginning of 2007 as Star XL German Airlines GmbH .
After the British XL Airways UK ceased operations on September 12, 2008 as a result of its insolvency , the shareholder structure of XL Airways Germany was changed. She had her own German Air Operator's Certificate . Another sister company was XL Airways France , which ceased operations in 2019.
From May 2008 to September 2010, XL Airways Germany had an aircraft permanently stationed at Bremen Airport, where it took over several routes from TUIfly . Since May 2011, a Boeing 737 was for REWE Touristik in Cologne / Bonn airport stationed. In the summer of 2011, a Boeing 737-800 with the registration D-AXLF with advertising for Schauinsland-Reisen on the fuselage flew from Düsseldorf, since May 2012 the machine, which is now stationed in Hanover, has had the logo of Öger Türk Tours . Flights for Condor from Frankfurt am Main and Luxair from Luxembourg were also carried out with one aircraft each .
XL Airways Germany suspended its operating license for the 2012/2013 winter flight schedule and did not operate any flights itself. The planned offer was taken over by Hamburg Airways . On December 27, 2012, bankruptcy was filed with the Darmstadt District Court . (File number 9 IN 1090/12 (December 27, 2012, 3:00 p.m.)). On February 26, 2013 it was announced that the planned charter flights in the 2013 summer flight schedule from Rostock , Erfurt-Weimar and Kassel-Calden airports would be taken over by Polish Enter Air . At the beginning of March 2013 it was finally announced that no new donor could be found for XL Airways and the company will be liquidated.
Destinations
On the one hand, XL Airways Germany operated flights for various tour operators such as TUI under its own name , but also offered its aircraft to other airlines in ad hoc charter . Customers for this were, for example, Thomsonfly , Gulf Air or Air Namibia .
fleet
As of November 2012, the XL Airways Germany fleet consisted of five aircraft with an average age of 9.5 years.
- 5 Boeing 737-800s (1 each operated for Condor and Luxair )
Incidents
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XL Airways Germany recorded no deaths or aircraft losses in regular passenger operations, but there were two incidents with greater attention:
- On November 27, 2008 an Airbus A320-200 of XL Airways Germany with the registration D-AXLA crashed off Saint-Cyprien in the Mediterranean Sea . He had taken off from the Airbus maintenance site at Perpignan Airport on an acceptance flight. The aircraft had been leased from Air New Zealand since 2006 and should be returned to it after this inspection. All seven people on board - two German pilots, a New Zealand pilot and four New Zealand engineers - were killed. According to the 2010 final report, the cause was improper maintenance, which resulted in water entering the angle of attack sensors and freezing in flight. During a test of the systems, this caused an uncontrollable situation.
- On September 3, 2012, after a Boeing 737-800 ( D-AXLF ) landed at Cologne / Bonn Airport, there was heavy smoke development. There were eleven people injured due to smoke inhalation , five of whom were moderate. The aircraft coming from Hanover with 186 passengers on board was supposed to fly on to Turkey.
See also
Web links
- XL Airways Germany website (offline)
Individual evidence
- ↑ XL Airways is suspending its AOC on tourism-insider.com , accessed on December 14, 2012
- ↑ Replacement for XL Airways flights found at airlines.de , accessed on February 27, 2013
- ↑ XL Airways Germany in liquidation, will not be rescued at ch-aviation.com (English), accessed on March 3, 2013
- ↑ XL Airways Germany Fleet Details and History ( Memento of March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on planespotters.net (English), accessed on July 31, 2014
- ↑ Accident report on bea.aero , accessed on August 5, 2014
- ↑ Defective valve caused smoke in the aircraft on welt.de , accessed on November 8, 2012
