Hanse Express (airline)

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Hanse Express
IATA code : HX
ICAO code : HLE
Call sign : (unknown)
Founding: 1987
Operation stopped: 1988
Seat: Hamburg Airport
Home airport : Hamburg Airport
Company form: GmbH & Co.
IATA prefix code : 099
Number of employees: 38
Fleet size: 3
Aims: Island traffic, Sweden, Benelux
Hanse Express ceased operations in 1988. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Hanse Express Deutsche Luftverkehrs GmbH & Co. was a German regional airline that existed from 1987 to 1988 and was based in Hamburg .

history

Hanse Express was created as the successor company to Holiday Express , which in turn emerged from HADAG Air . Due to financial problems was on 15 April 1988 as a rescue company , the Hamburg Airlines established that two of the Dornier Do 228 recorded on 9 June 1988 flight operations.

Destinations

As scheduled flights were from Holiday Express almost all routes taken. From Hamburg there was a flight within Germany to Helgoland and Westerland (Sylt) . In international traffic , the lines to Rotterdam , Antwerp , Brussels and Gothenburg were offered. In addition, ad hoc charter flights were carried out.

fleet

When operations ceased in 1988, the Hanse Express fleet consisted of three aircraft:

See also

literature

  • Karl-Dieter Seifert: German air traffic 1955-2000 . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7637-6121-7 .
  • Joachim Wölfer: German passenger aviation from 1955 until today . Mittler, Hamburg 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. Seifert, p. 193
  2. Historical flight plan overview [1]
  3. ^ Klee, Ulrich & Bucher, Frank et al .: jp airline-fleets international 1988/89 . Zurich Airport 1988, p. 104