Hamburg Airlines
| Hamburg Airlines | |
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| IATA code : | HX |
| ICAO code : | HAS |
| Call sign : | HAMBURG AIR |
| Founding: | 1988 |
| Operation stopped: | 1997 |
| Seat: |
Hamburg , Germany
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| Home airport : | Hamburg Airport |
| Fleet size: | 9 |
| Aims: | National and continental |
| Hamburg Airlines ceased operations in 1997. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Hamburg Airlines was a German airline based in Hamburg and based at Hamburg Airport .
history
Hamburg Airlines was founded on April 15, 1988 as a rescue company for the regional airline Holiday Express and its aircraft by the entrepreneur Eugen Block . Flight operations began with two Dornier Do 228s on June 9, 1988, but in October 1988 these were exchanged for regional aircraft of the De Havilland DHC-8 type . Later, in addition to the first DHC-8-100, the -300 series of this type was also used.
After the German reunification , the East and Central German airfields were more closely integrated into the route network. In particular, some of the routes in were bankrupt previous Tempelhof Airways acquired and a second base at the airport Berlin-Tempelhof furnished. In addition, a charter flight department was set up and 100 charter flights to Spain were carried out with a rented Fokker . In 1990 liner services were flown for the first time to London Gatwick , but also to Riga and Kaliningrad .
On January 5, 1993, the newly founded Saarland Airlines bought Hamburg Airlines. At the end of 1993, however, Saarland Airlines went bankrupt and Hamburg Airlines was revived as a name on December 1, 1993, but changed into a GmbH . In the course of this change, Hamburg Airlines also leased new types of aircraft such as the BAe 146-200 , and they began to compete with Lufthansa CityLine . New routes were opened to Vilnius and Riga . In addition, cooperation agreements were concluded with Air UK , Crossair and LTU .
But the set goals were missed and the figures were in the red again. Talks about a cooperation with Augsburg Airways and Team Lufthansa were fruitless until 1997. On December 21, 1997, Hamburg Airlines finally had to cease flight operations. This step was justified with the lack of important partners and with the fact that there was no prospect of an economic future in sight.
Destinations
Hamburg Airlines initially served domestic destinations such as Berlin , Leipzig , Sylt and Dresden , and abroad such as Amsterdam , London , Salzburg , Antwerp , Gothenburg and Brussels .
fleet
At the end of 1997, the Hamburg Airlines fleet consisted of nine aircraft:
See also
Web links
- Hamburg Airlines on Planespotters.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eugen Block: "Like the mother of the company" . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on November 15, 2018]).
