Volkswagen Airservice

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Volkswagen AirService GmbH
Dassault Falcon 2000 formerly the Lion Air Service
IATA code : -
ICAO code : BTX
Call sign : Beetle
Founding:
Seat: Braunschweig , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Home airport : Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport
Company form: GmbH
Fleet size: 8th
Aims: National and international

Volkswagen AirService GmbH is an air transport service provider based at Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG .

The airline previously registered on the Cayman Islands as Lion Air Services has a German air transport operator certificate with a maximum take-off weight of over 10 tons. The re-registration of the company became necessary due to the new EU regulation on the “non-commercial operation of technically complex motor-powered aircraft” (“Part-NCC”).

Area of ​​responsibility

According to a report by Spiegel , in addition to flights with a business background from Wolfsburg to the various production facilities around the world, weekend shuttle services are also carried out for high-level employees, above all "all corporate board members, many board members of the twelve brands and a number of general representatives according to their contracts ".

The company was incorporated in the Cayman Islands from 1995 to 2017. According to Volkswagen, this was not for tax reasons, but for safety reasons, as the owner of the aircraft was not immediately recognizable. All eight machines have been registered in Germany again since November 2017.

fleet

As of July 2018, the Volkswagen AirService fleet consists of ten business aircraft .

Aircraft type active ordered Aircraft registration
Dassault Falcon 8X 2 D-AGBA, D-AGBB
Dassault Falcon 7X 5 D-AGBE , D-AGBF , D-AGBG, D-AGBH , D-AGBI
Dassault Falcon 900EX 2 VP-CGE, VP-CLB
Pilatus PC-24 2 D-CVAA, D-CVAB
total 8th -

Due to the “ Dieselgate ” emissions scandal that became known in September 2015, VW decided to downsize its fleet. Only one Airbus A319CJ was sold. This went to Lufthansa Technik , which converted it for use as an open-skies observation aircraft for flight readiness of the Federal Ministry of Defense until 2019, where it now bears the military registration number 15 + 03 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Volkswagen Air Service  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. shareholdings according to Sections 285 and 313 HGB for Volkswagen AG and the Volkswagen Group as of December 31, 2013. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: volkswagenag.com. Volkswagen AG , 2014, p. 6 , archived from the original on August 12, 2014 ; accessed on February 24, 2015 .
  2. approved airlines. In: Luftfahrt-Bundesamt.de. Luftfahrt-Bundesamt, accessed on July 21, 2018 .
  3. REGULATION (EU) No. 800/2013 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 August 2013 amending Regulation (EU) No. 965/2012 laying down technical regulations and administrative procedures in relation to flight operations in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 216 / 2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  4. VW Air Service receives German AOC. In: airliners.de. January 25, 2018, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  5. Company-owned fleet: VW managers can fly in the company jet free of charge. In: Spiegel Online . October 11, 2015, accessed October 11, 2015 .
  6. Lukas Bay, Martin Dowideit: The trouble with the private jets. In: handelsblatt.com. May 13, 2015, accessed November 25, 2019 .
  7. Ulrich Exner: Why VW reports its company jets in a tax haven. In: The world. January 26, 2016, accessed April 7, 2016 .
  8. Gerhard Hegmann: Volkswagen signs company jets out of tax havens . In: THE WORLD . November 11, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  9. airframes.org: Aviation Club Braunschweig. Retrieved December 5, 2017 .
  10. ^ Volkswagen Air Service. In: planelogger.com. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  11. Gerhard Hegmann: Volkswagen: Winterkorn Airbus is now securing world peace . In: THE WORLD . January 29, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed July 18, 2018]).
  12. New “Open Skies-Flieger” for the German Armed Forces . In: Officers.ch . February 11, 2016 ( officiere.ch [accessed on July 18, 2018]).