Eastwest Airlines
| EASTWEST AIRLINES GmbH | |
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| IATA code : | 5D |
| ICAO code : | EWT |
| Call sign : | E-WEST |
| Founding: | 1993 |
| Operation stopped: | 1995 |
| Seat: |
Erfurt , Germany
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| Home airport : | Erfurt-Weimar Airport |
| Company form: | GmbH |
| Management: | Harald Brecht |
| Fleet size: | 1 |
| Aims: | international |
| EASTWEST AIRLINES GmbH ceased operations in 1995. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Eastwest Airlines (actually EASTWEST AIRLINES GmbH , also Eastwest Business Airlines ) was a German airline based in Erfurt .
History and destinations
Eastwest Airlines was founded in August 1993. After receiving the aircraft on May 10, 1994, the company was the first German airline to use a Dornier 328 and thus connected the airports of Erfurt and Munich . In addition, there were daily flights from Frankfurt am Main and weekly flights from Berlin-Tempelhof to Sylt . In the first four months after the start of operations, around 5,000 passengers could be counted; 25 employees worked for Eastwest Airlines.
From January 9, 1995, there were five flights a week between Berlin and Rotterdam , the aim of which was to appeal to business travelers. A little later, Florence was also served , although flight operations fell short of economic expectations and the company was forced to cease it entirely on June 2, 1995. The search for a new investor was unsuccessful and so the company was finally foreclosed due to its debts .
fleet
At the time of its existence, the Eastwest Airlines fleet included a Dornier 328-100 with the aircraft registration D-CATS and the serial number 3009 .
See also
literature
- Karl-Dieter Seifert: German air traffic 1955–2000 - world traffic, liberalization, globalization (= German aviation . No. 29 ). Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7637-6121-7 .
Web links
- Photos of Eastwest Airlines on Airliners.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ ch-aviation.com: Airline Information - Eastwest Airlines (Germany) , accessed on June 24, 2016 (English).
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 95/96
- ↑ planeboys.de: Eastwest Business Airlines ( memento from June 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 24, 2016
- ↑ Eastwest Airlines accepts Dornier 328; company books two others. In: Highbeam Business. May 16, 1994, archived from the original on June 24, 2016 ; accessed on June 24, 2016 .
- ^ Flightglobal Archive: Eastwest Service . In: Flight International January 11-17, 1995. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
- ↑ Seifert, 2001, p. 227
- ↑ Eastwest Airlines crash-landed. In: new Germany. August 17, 1995. Retrieved June 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Seifert, 2001, p. 360
