German wings
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| IATA code : | PW |
| ICAO code : | KFK |
| Call sign : | GERMAN WINGS |
| Founding: | 1989 |
| Operation stopped: | 1990 |
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Haar , Germany
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| Company form: | GmbH |
| Fleet size: | 6th |
| Aims: | National and continental |
| German Wings ceased operations in 1990. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
German Wings was a German airline based in Haar in the Munich district . It was one of the first privately organized airlines to successfully apply for line rights in Germany, but had to give up after just one year.
Companies
founding
The shareholders of German Wings were the brothers Peter and Christian Kimmel with 40%, the brothers Frieder Burda and Franz Burda with 45% and Bayerische Unternehmensbeteiligungs-AG with 15% of the shares, the share capital was 21.25 million marks .
business
The operational start of operations took place on April 10, 1989 with a fleet of four, later six leased McDonnell Douglas MD-83 . The airports in Munich, Hamburg, Cologne / Bonn, Düsseldorf and Paris were approached.
Around the same time, the charter airline Aero Lloyd , equipped with liner rights, tried its hand at the domestic German market.
Business concept
Instead of a potentially ruinous price war, the concept envisaged offering more service than the previous monopoly Lufthansa under the motto “A little more class”. In the one-size-fits-all class , which was advertised as a single business class with just 114 seats - without the unpopular middle seat - a meal was always served on routes within Germany. The cheapest German Wings flight was available as a fly-and-save tariff on the Hamburg – Munich route at the end of 1989 for DM 296 there and back. A fully flexible return flight, on the other hand, cost 714 DM.
Problems
The state-owned Lufthansa tried to take advantage of its position to prevent unwanted competition. Lufthansa and German Wings argued in court about the issue of tickets for the other company as part of interlining , so that ticket sales were slow at first.
In addition, as a new airline , German Wings only received unattractive departure times ( slots ) at the airports, so that the occupancy of the aircraft was mostly low and even at the end of flight operations was still below the 60 percent required to cover costs.
Attempts to win a foreign airline as a partner also failed several times. German Wings had to cease operations after just one year in April 1990 due to financial difficulties.
2008 LH buys the brand
The airline Germanwings , which was founded by Eurowings in 2002, has no connection to German Wings, but in 2008 the parent company Lufthansa acquired the rights to the word and image brand German Wings . The aircraft registration numbers D-AGWA to -F used by German Wings were later used by Germanwings for their fleet.
The German Wings Luftfahrtunternehmen GmbH was initially renamed GW Luftfahrtunternehmen Abwicklungs-GmbH and was deleted by the Munich District Court in October 2010 due to lack of assets .
Destinations
The German Wings route network consisted of connections between Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Cologne / Bonn , Frankfurt , Munich and Paris-Charles de Gaulle .
fleet
When operations ceased, the German Wings fleet consisted of six McDonnell Douglas MD-83s .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aviation: Newbies without a chance . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1990 ( online ).
- ↑ Peter Pletschacher: Struggle with comfort . In: Die Zeit , No. 10/1989
- ^ A b Karl-Heinz Büschemann: German Wings: Rivale on board . In: Die Zeit , No. 12/1990
- ↑ German Wings: Good nerves . In: Die Zeit , No. 18/1990
- ↑ Payable immediately . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1989 ( online ).
- ^ Heinz Blüthmann: Air traffic: German Wings on the ground . In: Die Zeit , No. 19/1990
- ↑ Heinz Michaels: The flight into the next millennium . In: Die Zeit , No. 24/1990
- ^ Word and figurative mark "German Wings" , RN 1141894, registered December 16, 1988, was changed to the new owner Deutsche Lufthansa AG, 50679 Cologne, on March 25, 2008.
- ↑ Publication of file number: HRB 76419 . District Court of Munich . October 13, 2010. Retrieved on November 8, 2017. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
