SunExpress Germany
SunExpress Deutschland GmbH was a German leisure airline headquartered in Gateway Gardens, Flughafen, Frankfurt, Hesse. It was a subsidiary of SunExpress, which itself is a joint-venture of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. Its main base was Frankfurt Airport with smaller bases at several other airports throughout Germany. The company ceased all operations in 2020.
Key facts
History
SunExpress Deutschland was founded on 8 June 2011 as a subsidiary of SunExpress and started operations with three Boeing 737-800s. It was founded in order to fly from Germany to the Red Sea using the German AOC. These routes have been served on 2 November 2011 for the first time and the network has since been extended to several more leisure destinations in Southern Europe and North Africa.
In February 2015, the Lufthansa Group announced that SunExpress Deutschland would be the operator of Eurowings' new long-haul operations, which are based at Cologne Bonn Airport, from November 2015. SunExpress Deutschland therefore has received leased Airbus A330-200s.
On 23 June 2020 SunExpress announced SunExpress Deutschland would cease operations in 2020 and orderly be liquidated. Its route network would partially be taken over by SunExpress and Eurowings.
Its airports
Its main hubs
Route network according to OpenFlights (open route database). It may not reflect recent schedule changes.
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