Lufthansa CityLine

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Lufthansa CityLine

IATA CL	ICAO CLH	Callsign Hansaline
Founded		1958 as Ostfriesische Lufttaxi[1]
Hubs		Frankfurt International Airport Munich - Franz Josef Strauß Int'l Airport
Focus cities		All major German Airports
Frequent flyer program		Miles & More
Member lounge		Senator Lounge
Alliance		Star Alliance
Fleet size		79
Destinations		61
Parent company		Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Headquarters		Cologne, Germany
Key people		Wolfgang Mayrhuber (CEO), Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley (CFO)
Website: http://www.lufthansacityline.com/

Lufthansa CityLine CRJ-100

Lufthansa CityLine is an airline based in Cologne, Germany. It is a wholly owned subsidiary regional airline of Lufthansa and member of the Lufthansa Regional network. Its main base is Cologne Bonn Airport, with hubs at Hamburg Airport, Frankfurt International Airport, Düsseldorf International Airport and Munich International Airport ^[1].

1 History
2 Services
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

The airline was founded as Ostfriesische Lufttaxi (OLT) in 1958 and became Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT) in 1970 (still exists today as a separate airline) in Emden. It was reorganised and renamed as DLT Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH on 1 October 1974 and began cooperation with Lufthansa in 1978 with short-range international routes. By 1988 all operations were on behalf of Lufthansa. In March 1992 DLT became a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa and was renamed Lufthansa CityLine ^[1].

[edit] Services

As of January 2005, Lufthansa CityLine operated the following services ^[1] :

Domestic scheduled destinations:Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremburg and Stuttgart.
International scheduled destinations:Amsterdam, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Belgrade, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bornholm (starts May 5, 2007 - seasonal), Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Florence, Gdańsk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Graz, Helsinki, Katowice, Kiev, Kraków, Linz, London, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Naples, Newcastle, Nice, Oslo, Paris, Poznań, Prague, Riga, Rome, Rostov, Sarajevo, Sofia, Stavanger, Stockholm, Tallinn, Toulouse, Turin, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb and Zürich.

[edit] Fleet

The Lufthansa CityLine fleet includes the following aircraft (January 2007):

Lease extensions have been signed on 13 of the Avro RJ85 fleet, which means they will remain in service with the airline well into the next decade ^[2].

The average Lufthansa CityLine fleet age is 8.3 years old in July 2006 ^[3].