RAS flight
| RAS Fluggesellschaft mbH | |
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| IATA code : | RW |
| ICAO code : | RLD |
| Call sign : | RHINELAND |
| Founding: | 1971 as Rheinland Air Service |
| Operation stopped: | 2002 |
| Seat: |
Mönchengladbach , Germany
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| Home airport : | Mönchengladbach airfield |
| Company form: | GmbH |
| IATA prefix code : | 586 |
| Management: | Johannes Turzer |
| Number of employees: | 65 (2001) |
| Fleet size: | 2 |
| Aims: | regional |
| RAS Fluggesellschaft mbH ceased operations in 2002. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
RAS Flug (previously Rheinland Air Service , legally RAS Fluggesellschaft mbH ) was a German airline based in Mönchengladbach .
History and destinations
RAS Flug was founded in Krefeld in 1971 as Rheinland Air Service . The company initially rented its own aircraft for cargo charter flights before entering the domestic German regional flight market in 1985 with a Cessna 404 , a Cessna 421 and a Cessna 425 . Based on these developments, in addition to two Shorts 360-300F at the beginning of 1991, a third Shorts and an additional Cessna 425 were added to the fleet in 1993. The company, which had around 80 employees in 1994, was completely taken over by LTU towards the end of 1996 and renamed RAS Flug ; the maintenance operation for aircraft maintenance, which had also been established up to that point, was split off and still exists today under its original name.
On December 19, 1996, the RAS Flug , which now has only 19 employees and relocated to Düsseldorf Airport , started operations with two Shorts 360-300. As a subsidiary of LTU, the focus was on regional air traffic: Erfurt-Weimar , Sylt , Saarbrücken , Luxembourg and Berlin-Tempelhof were served from Düsseldorf . In the first quarter of 1999, RAS Flug increased the number of shorts in use to four. From the end of the same year, there were also flights from Düsseldorf to Hanover and from Mönchengladbach to Berlin. LTU separated from RAS Flug in mid-October 2000 - after Rewe Touristik , which was pushing for rationalization - and sold the company to Wings Factor based in Mönchengladbach.
RAS Flug then also moved to Mönchengladbach Airport and initiated the decommissioning of the shorts aircraft when the summer flight schedule began; they were replaced by ATR 42 machines. The company was increasingly confronted with competition from Sylt Air and Helgoland Airlines on the routes from Hamburg to Sylt and from Berlin to Sylt , so that in March 2002 RAS Flug was forced to cease all flight operations and file for bankruptcy.
fleet
When operations were stopped, the RAS Flug fleet consisted of the following two machines:
| Aircraft type | number | Aircraft registration | Seats | Remarks |
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| ATR 42-300 | 2 | D-BOOM | 48 | leased from ATR Asset Management |
| D-BVIP |
See also
Web links
- Web presence of RAS Flug ( Memento from September 26, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- Rheinland Air Service website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Klee et al .: jp airline-fleets international 2001/02 . Bucher & Co., Glattbrugg 2001, ISBN 978-3-85758-135-9 , pp. 118 (English).
- ↑ Rheinland Air Services, GmbH .: Germany (1971–1996). In: World History. September 7, 2015, accessed February 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Jan Schnettler: RAS shipyard is expanding at the airport. In: RP Online. RP Digital GmbH, August 13, 2013, accessed on February 26, 2017 .
- ^ World Airline Directory - Rheinland Air Services (RAS) . In: Flight International . tape 145 , no. 4413 . Reed Business Publishing, March 23, 1994, ISSN 0015-3710 , p. 114 (English, flightglobal.com [accessed February 6, 2017]).
- ↑ RAS airline mbH. In: World History. July 10, 2015, accessed February 26, 2017 .
- ^ LTU International Airways Joins Europe By Air Flight Pass Program; New Cities in Spain & Germany Available On All-Europe Flight Pass. In: Business Wire. September 8, 1999, accessed February 26, 2017 .
- ^ Margot Mielck: Sylter Flugsaison: Review 2000 - "Wings Factor" took over RAS / LTU. In: vivasylt.com. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Margot Mielck: Review 2002: New line and new destinations in the Sylt summer flight plan - city-air comes with the Metroliner. In: vivasylt.com. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
