Holiday Express
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| IATA code : | HL (HX) |
| ICAO code : | HLE |
| Call sign : | Holiday Express |
| Founding: | 1983 |
| Operation stopped: | 1987 |
| Seat: | Hamburg Airport |
| Home airport : | Hamburg Airport |
| Company form: | GmbH & Co. |
| IATA prefix code : | 099 |
| Number of employees: | 38 |
| Fleet size: | 4th |
| Aims: | Island traffic, Benelux |
| Holiday Express ceased operations in 1987. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Holiday Express Deutsche Luftverkehrs GmbH & Co. was a German regional airline that existed from 1983 to 1987 and was based in Hamburg .
history
Holiday Express was founded in 1983 as the successor company to HADAG Air Seebäderflug , which was sold by HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst . In 1987 operations were stopped and the successor company was renamed Hanse Express . This in turn was then taken over by Hamburg Airlines as a rescue company in 1988 .
Destinations
The routes from Hamburg to Helgoland , Westerland (Sylt) , Hanover and Kassel were flown as scheduled flights . From 1985 Rotterdam was added , followed by Antwerp in October 1986 . Shortly before operations ceased, routes to Brussels and Gothenburg were added. In addition, ad hoc charter flights were carried out.
fleet
When operations ceased in 1987 and the subsequent transfer to the Hanse Express, the Holiday Express fleet consisted of four aircraft:
- 1 Cessna 402B
- 1 Swearingen SA226TC Metro
- 1 Dornier 228-100
- 1 Dornier 228-200.
Before that, there were also operated: a Cessna 340, two each of Britten-Norman BN-2 Islanders and de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter and two more Dornier 228-200s.
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
- ↑ Wölfer, p. 100
- ↑ Klee, Ulrich & Bucher, Frank et al .: jp airline-fleets international 1984/85 . Zurich Airport 1983, p. 376
- ^ Klee, Ulrich & Bucher, Frank et al .: jp airline-fleets international 1988/89 . Zurich Airport 1988, p. 105
- ↑ Seifert, p. 193
- ↑ Historical flight plan overview [1]
- ^ Klee, Ulrich & Bucher, Frank et al .: jp airline-fleets international 1987/88 . Zurich Airport 1987, p. 98
- ↑ Seifert, pp. 367-368
- ^ Klee, Ulrich & Bucher, Frank et al .: jp airline-fleets international 1985/86 . Zurich Airport 1987, p. 88
