Tempelhof Express Airlines

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Tempelhof Express Airlines GmbH
Logo of the Tempelhof Express Airlines
Dornier 328-100 of Tempelhof Express Airlines
IATA code : FC
ICAO code : SBY
Call sign : BRANDY
Founding: 1998
Operation stopped: 2000
Seat: Berlin , Germany
GermanyGermany 
Home airport : Berlin-Tempelhof Airport
Company form: GmbH
IATA prefix code : 859
Number of employees: 25th
Fleet size: 1
Aims: international
Tempelhof Express Airlines GmbH ceased operations in 2000. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

The Tempelhof Express Airlines GmbH (outdoor performance usually only Tempelhof Express ) was a German airline based in Berlin .

history

Dornier 328-100 of TAL Thuringia Airlines in April 1997

The history of Tempelhof Express Airlines begins with the merger of SAL Saxonia and BSF Berliner Spezialflug . The resulting new company with the name TAL Thuringia Airlines mainly operated charter and air taxi flights, but from 1996 also offered scheduled flights. However, the success was rather moderate, so that the company ceased operations at the end of the 1998 summer flight schedule.

A little later, however, a consortium of several businessmen spoke out in favor of the takeover and renaming of the failed TAL Thuringia Airlines. On November 1, 1998, this became Tempelhof Express Airlines , which resumed flight operations as early as winter 1998/99 with a quickly drawn up flight plan. The three daily round trips to Cologne / Bonn were carried out with a Dornier 328-100 previously operated by TAL Thuringia Airlines . Success was promised, among other things, by the relocation of many federal authorities to the new capital Berlin, which became necessary after reunification .

If the Berlin - Cologne / Bonn connection ran extremely satisfactorily for Tempelhof Express Airlines with a seat load factor of over 50% after just 8 weeks, Gothenburg Airport was soon served three times a week. Even if the capacity utilization here was rather disappointing at the beginning, plans were made to include further foreign destinations and to purchase a second Dornier 328-100.

However, on September 25, the company stopped its flights to Cologne / Bonn. Despite a seat load factor of approx. 65%, which has meanwhile been achieved, the economy was inadequate because competition with other airlines led to a drop in prices. The number of daily rounds had already been reduced to two rounds per day in favor of the introduction of Berlin - Friedrichshafen and Munich - Erfurt .

In 2000 the company broke even . Meanwhile, a change in the ownership structure became apparent, which resulted in a change in the direction of the business. However, this had a negative effect, so that Tempelhof Express Airlines ceased flight operations at the end of 2000 and returned the Air Operator Certificate to the Federal Aviation Office .

Destinations

In the end, only Friedrichshafen was connected with Berlin and Erfurt with Munich.

fleet

When operations ceased in 2000, the Tempelhof Express Airlines fleet consisted of a Dornier 328-100 with the aircraft registration D-CATS . This one had taken over from the stock of the insolvent Eastwest Airlines .

After it was sold to OLT , on December 2, 2001, when it landed at Bremen Airport, it ran past the end of the runway. It was damaged beyond repair and had to be written off.

See also

Web links

Commons : Tempelhof Express  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Flightglobal Archive: Tempelhof Express Airlines . In: Flight International . April 3 - 9, 2001, accessed December 12, 2015
  2. berlin-spotter.de: Airline Portrait - Tempelhof Express GmbH , accessed on December 12, 2015
  3. Tempelhof Express is not yet in the profit zone. The airline cancels route to Bonn. In: The world. September 29, 1999, accessed December 12, 2015 .
  4. a b airliners-airlines.de: Tempelhof Express GmbH , accessed on December 12, 2015
  5. Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on December 12, 2015.