Air transport south
| LTS Lufttransport Süd | |
|---|---|
| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | BV (LTS) |
| Call sign : | LTS |
| Founding: | 1983 |
| Seat: |
Munich , Germany
|
| Home airport : | Munich |
| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | International |
LTS Lufttransport Süd (nickname: wing of the south ) was a German airline.
history
After the founding meeting of LTS Geschäftsführung AG in August 1983, the airline LTS Lufttransport Süd GmbH & Co Kg was founded in December 1983 as a subsidiary and with financial support from LTU in Düsseldorf . Flight operations began in May 1984 with the Boeing B757-200 aircraft type, registered for the first time in Germany, with the registration D-AMUR (MSN 23118) in white and blue livery. In the month after next, on July 12, 1984, at around 8:00 p.m. local time after landing at Munich-Riem Airport , the aircraft was so badly damaged by a hailstorm that it had to be repaired by Boeing in Seattle by March 1985 .
In this repair measure, with 20 million marks the largest single item in the overall balance of the hail disaster of Munich represented, not just the landing flaps had (Engl. Flaps ) and the spoilers (Engl. Spoiler ), but also the entire upper airframe (Engl. Crown Area ) can be replaced. The second aircraft with the registration D-AMUS (MSN 23119), which had been ordered from Boeing together with the D-AMUR on August 25, 1983, was handed over to LTU on February 11, 1985 and then leased to LTS.
The third aircraft in the Boeing 757-200 series, equipped with two RB211-535C engines, like the two sister models before, was ordered from Boeing on January 17, 1986 and delivered on December 8, 1986 as D-AMUT (MSN 23651) . In the following year 1987 control of the economic fortunes of LTS was taken over by LTU and in November 1987 the name of the airline was renamed LTU-Süd International Airways.
Destinations
Middle distance
- Balearic Islands , Palma de Mallorca , Ibiza
- Canary Islands , Gran Canaria , Lanzarote , Tenerife , Fuerteventura
- Greece , Corfu , Kos , Samos
- Morocco ( Agadir ), Turkey ( Antalya ), Portugal ( Faro )
Long haul
fleet
Web links
- History of the D-AMUR
- History of D-AMUS
- History of the D-AMUT
- Boeing 757 in LTU Sud History at airfleets.net
- Boeing 767 in LTU Sud History at airfleets.net
- (English) LTS (Lufttransport Sud) at airlinehistory.co.uk
- Postcard of the LTS Boeing 757 D-AMUR at 1.bp.blogspot.com
- Photo of the D-AMUR from July 12, 1985 in Düsseldorf at airliners.net
- 20 million D-Mark hail damage to LTS Boeing 757 in googleusercontent.com
- LTS - Lufttransport Süd AG & CO In Memoriam, Photo: Boeing 757-2G5 D-AMUR Düsseldorf - DUS 1987 at
- Hailstorm in Munich on July 12, 1984: "It looked like after a bomb attack" Article about the Munich hail storm on July 12, 1984 at tz.de.
- July 21, 1986 Tourism - Simply Fun - With the planned participation in the tour operator Tjaereborg, the charter flight company LTU is moving ever closer to the industry leader TUI. (Der Spiegel 30/1986)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ LTS airline ???? In: forum.airliners.de. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
