Eurowings Europe

Eurowings Europe GmbH
IATA code :	E2
ICAO code :	EWE
Call sign :
Founding:	2015
Seat:	Vienna , Austria
Home airport :	Vienna
Company form:	GmbH
IATA prefix code :	104
Management:	Supervisory Board: Thorsten Dirks (Chairman of the Supervisory Board ) Managing directors: Robert Jahn Dieter Watzak-Helmer
Frequent Flyer Program :	Miles & More Boomerang Club
Fleet size:	12
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.eurowings.com

The Euro Wings Europe GmbH is an Austrian airline based in Vienna and bases in Austria at the airport Wien-Schwechat and Salzburg Airport , and the Palma de Mallorca airport on the Spanish island and the Pristina airport in Kosovo . The Lufthansa subsidiary operates flights to international destinations. It is part of the Eurowings Group and a sister company of the German Eurowings GmbH , on whose behalf and under whose flight numbers it operates. The only externally visible distinguishing features are the Austrian aircraft registration number and the corresponding flag.

history

On December 3, 2014, the Lufthansa Supervisory Board approved the Wings concept. In August 2015, Eurowings Europe GmbH was founded in Vienna because the original plan was to have the Eurowings aircraft operated by Austrian Airlines crews .

Initially, two Airbus A320s were stationed in Vienna-Schwechat , with which flight operations began in summer 2016.

In September 2019, the Lufthansa Group announced a change in strategy for the Vienna location. Accordingly, from January 2020 the hub traffic in Vienna should be completely commercially responsible for Austrian Airlines and in the course of this some Eurowings routes should be taken over by Austrian Airlines. Eurowings Europe should operate four aircraft and crews for Austrian Airlines in wet lease in Vienna .

Bases

As of October 2019, four of the airports used by Eurowings Europe are designed as bases or "support points", at each of which at least one aircraft with crews is permanently stationed.

•  Austria : Salzburg , Vienna-Schwechat
•  Spain : Palma de Mallorca
•  Kosovo : Pristina

history

The first base was Vienna Airport with three aircraft stationed, the second base was Salzburg Airport in January 2017, initially with one aircraft stationed. On May 24, 2017, the airline opened its third and largest base in Spain on the Balearic Islands at Palma de Mallorca Airport, initially with four aircraft.

After Air Berlin ended , the Munich and Stuttgart bases were opened in Germany in 2017 , as the Eurowings Germany collective agreement at the time only provided for a maximum of 23 aircraft. However, German tariff conditions should apply at the base at Munich Airport . On March 26, 2018, the base at Stuttgart Airport switched to Eurowings GmbH. In December 2018 it was announced that Germanwings will take over the Munich base at the end of 2019. The operational change took place with the start of the winter flight schedule 19/20 on October 27, 2019. In return, Eurowings Europe took over the Pristina base from Germanwings in Kosovo .

Destinations

The first flights of Eurowings Europe took place on November 9 and 10, 2015 to Barcelona , London-Stansted and Palma de Mallorca and were initially flown with aircraft from the German Eurowings GmbH .

Eurowings Europe's flight operations in Vienna began in March 2016 with the summer flight schedule, which included connections to Spain, Corsica, Italy, England and Portugal.

fleet

Airbus A319 of Eurowings Europe (OE-LYX)

As of May 2020, the Eurowings Europe fleet consists of 12 aircraft with an average age of 6.6 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats
Airbus A319-100	6th			144/150
Airbus A320-200	6th		with sharklets	174/180
total	12

Since March 25, 2020, all 12 aircraft in the fleet have been on the ground due to the massive drop in passenger numbers and the international flight restrictions caused by the corona pandemic .

Special paints

Aircraft type	Aircraft registration	Painting	Period	image
Airbus A320-200	OE-IQD	"Eurowings Holidays Sticker"	since July 2017

criticism

Eurowings Europe was criticized for offering significantly worse working conditions than its German sister airline Eurowings GmbH. Among other things, there should have been different contracts with different salaries for the same job and a significant reduction in wages in the event of illness. These and other things were presented in an open letter from the staff to the management in Vienna.

Since October 1, 2018, there has been a collective agreement with the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, Vida, which, with retroactive effect from March 1, 2018, ensures significantly better working conditions for flight personnel at the Austrian bases in Vienna and Salzburg.

See also

• List of airlines
• Eurowings GmbH
• Germanwings

Web links

Commons : Eurowings Europe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Eurowings website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eurowings Europe on Planespotters.net , accessed on December 22, 2016. Note: So far (12/2016) the ICAO code 'EWE' has not yet been confirmed by the official entry in ICAO Doc 8585. (This is why there is no call sign in the info box yet.)
2. ↑ eurowings.com - Imprint accessed on May 5, 2017
3. ↑ Imprint - Eurowings Europe GmbH. interpersonal GmbH, accessed on September 3, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Power start in Salzburg: Landing of the first Eurowings Airbus A320 at the new location. Eurowings GmbH (mother) press release, January 11, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2017 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Eurowings goes Mallorca: One million passengers per year. Eurowings GmbH (mother) press release, May 24, 2017, accessed on May 24, 2017 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Eurowings opens base and stations A319 in Pristina. Retrieved October 30, 2019 . 
7. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Firmenmonitor.AT // Company details. In: www.firmenmonitor.at. Retrieved December 19, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Lufthansa Expert Session Eurowings. Deutsche Lufthansa AG, June 10, 2016, accessed on December 19, 2016 (English). 
9. ↑ AUA / Eurowings: Staff representatives criticize “infiltration”. Austrian Wings, October 2, 2015, accessed on October 25, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Eurowings press release: Eurowings Europe takes off in Vienna , June 23, 2016, accessed on October 13, 2016.
11. ↑ In future, Eurowings will fly for Austrian Airlines on wet lease. Retrieved October 30, 2019 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b} Interview: “We are now also hiring in Germany”. In: airliners.de. December 22, 2017, accessed January 2, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Salzburg as of today Eurowings base. In: Austrian Wings. January 11, 2017, accessed January 31, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Eurowings is closing its Munich base in winter. In: airliners.de. February 3, 2020, accessed April 6, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Eurowings changes: Germanwings is replacing Eurowings Europe in Munich. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. December 13, 2018, accessed on October 30, 2019 (Swiss Standard German). 
16. ↑ Eurowings Europe started. In: aero.de. November 10, 2015, accessed February 1, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Eurowings starts in Vienna. Eurowings GmbH (Muter) press release, November 6, 2015, accessed on January 22, 2016 . 
18. ↑ ^{a b} Eurowings Europe Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Covid 19 crisis: Germanwings and Eurowings Europe stop flight operations. In: aero.de. March 23, 2020, accessed May 18, 2020 . 
20. ^ Allegations against Eurowings Europe: denial, walls and silence ... In: Austrian Wings . ( austrianwings.info [accessed November 3, 2017]).
21. ↑ New era at Eurowings Europe: collective agreement signed. Vida union, October 1, 2018, accessed June 27, 2019 (Austrian German).