Lufthansa CityLine

Lufthansa CityLine
IATA ICAO Callsign
CL CLH HANSALINE
Founded 1958
(as Ostfriesisches Lufttaxi)
Hubs
Frequent-flyer program Miles & More
Airport lounge
  • Senator Lounge
  • Business Lounge
Alliance Star Alliance (affiliate)
Fleet size 55
Destinations 75
Parent company Lufthansa Group
Headquarters Munich Airport, Germany[1]
Key people
  • Stephan Klar
  • Michael Knitter
Employees 2,532 (31 December 2013)
Website lufthansacityline.com

Lufthansa CityLine GmbH is a German airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Munich Airport.[1][2] It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa and maintains hubs at Frankfurt Airport and Munich Airport,[3] from where it operates a dense domestic and European network as a member of Lufthansa Regional. Since October 2015, it also operates some long-haul routes on behalf of its parent company.

History

Early years

The airline was founded as Ostfriesische Lufttaxi (OLT) in 1958 and became Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT) in 1970 - which existed until 2013 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. Lufthansa CityLine employs 2,332 people, of whom 664 are cockpit crew, 849 cabin crew and 819 work in the technical and administrative areas as of 31 December 2011.[4]

Lufthansa placed an order on 17 April 2007 for 30 Embraer E-190/195 and 15 Bombardier CRJ-900 aircraft to directly replace LH CityLine's fleet of BAe 146 and Avro RJ aircraft. The last Avro RJ 85 took off from Cologne Bonn Airport on August 27, 2012 as LH1985.[5]

Development since 2014

The airline was previously headquartered at Cologne Bonn Airport.[6] In May 2013 it was announced that the management and administration offices of CityLine will be relocated from Cologne to Munich.[7] The move was completed as of September 2014.[1] Its corporate headquarters are now at the Flight Operations Center (FOC) at Munich Airport.[1]

In late 2014, parent company Lufthansa announced it would begin transferring eight of its Airbus A340-300 aircraft to CityLine. After reconfiguration to a high-density configuration, these aircraft will be owned by CityLine and operated by CityLine pilots, but wet-leased back to Lufthansa to be used on leisure routes and serviced by Lufthansa cabin crews starting in 2015.[8] The first destinations to be served by the new CityLine-operated long-haul fleet are Cancún, Mexico; Male, Maldives; Mauritius; Tampa, USA;[9] and Panama City, Panama.[10] These were later expanded to include Philadelphia and Montreal.[11]

In March 2015, the Lufthansa Group announced it would transfer 17 Embraer 195 jets from Lufthansa CityLine to Austrian Airlines. As a replacement, CityLine will receive several more Bombardier CRJ900s that are currently being phased out at sister company Eurowings.[12] These will also be used to replace the remaining slightly smaller Bombardier CRJ700s which left CityLine's fleet by 29 March 2015.[13]

Destinations

Fleet

Current fleet

Lufthansa CityLine Embraer 195
Lufthansa CityLine Airbus A340-300 identifiable by the missing Lufthansa-titles

As of November 2016, the Lufthansa CityLine fleet consists of the following aircraft:[14]

Lufthansa CityLine fleet
Aircraft In service Orders Passengers Notes
J W Y Total
Airbus A340-300 5 18 19 261 298 transferred from Lufthansa mainline and wet-leased back to Lufthansa[9]
298 298
Bombardier CRJ900 27 84 84 8 more arriving from Eurowings to replace Embraer 195s and the retired CRJ700s
Embraer 190 9 100 100
Embraer 195 14 116 116 17 of former 24 are transferred to Austrian Airlines[15]
Total 55

Historical fleet

Over the years, Lufthansa CityLine has operated the following aircraft types:[16][17][18]

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A former Lufthansa CityLine Avro RJ85
Lufthansa CityLine historical fleet
Aircraft Introduced Retired
ATR 42
1992
2002
Avro RJ85
1994
2012
Bombardier CRJ100/200
1992
2010
Bombardier CRJ700
2001
2015
Bombardier CRJ900
2006
Dash 8-100/-300
1992
1997
Boeing 737-200
1986
1999
Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia
1986
1990
Embraer 190
2009
Embraer 195
2009
Fokker F27 Friendship
1987
1988
Fokker 50
1987
1997
Hawker Siddeley HS 748
1981
1989
Short 330
1977
1984

Accidents and incidents

References

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  2. "Flughafen München - FOC - Flight Operations Center". Munich-airport.de. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  3. "Route network". Lufthansacityline.com. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  4. "Directory: CLH official site". lufthansacityline.com. 24 Jan 2012. p. About us.
  5. http://worldairlinenews.com/2012/08/27/lufthansa-cityline-retires-the-last-british-aerospace-avro-rj85/
  6. Contact" (Archive). Lufthansa CityLine. 5 May 2013. Retrieved on 7 January 2014. "Lufthansa CityLine GmbH Airport Köln/Bonn Waldstraße 247 51147 Cologne Germany "
  7. "Lufthansa-Tochter Cityline zieht nach München um." Münchner Merkur (DE). 29 May 2013.
  8. "CityLine pilots to operate Lufthansa's A340 'Jump' fleet". Ch-aviation.com. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  9. 1 2 "Lufthansa Adds 3 Destinations from Dec 2015; Transfer Select A340 Fleet to CityLine". Airlineroute.net. 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  10. "Lufthansa to Start Panama City Service from mid-Nov 2015". Airlineroute.net. 2015-02-05. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  11. 2016, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Lufthansa S16 Long-Haul Operation Changes as of 15OCT15". Routesonline. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
  12. "Austrian confirms CityLine E195s will replace Fokker fleet". Ch-aviation.com. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  13. "Lufthansa Plans Last CRJ700 Scheduled Service in late-March 2015". Airlineroute.net. 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  14. "Lufthansa CityLine Fleet Details and History". planespotters.net. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  15. "Austrian confirms CityLine E195s will replace Fokker fleet". Ch-aviation.com. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  16. "Lufthansa Cityline Fleet | Airfleets aviation". Airfleets.net. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  17. "AeroTransport Data Bank". Aerotransport.org. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  18. http://www.lufthansacityline.com/en/history.html
  19. "ASN Aircraft accident de Havilland Canada DHC-8-311 D-BEAT Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG)". Aviation-safety.net. 1993-01-06. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  20. "ASN Aircraft accident Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-100LR D-ACJA Düsseldorf Airport (DUS)". Aviation-safety.net. 1999-12-28. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  21. "STATE COMMISSION ON AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS INVESTIGATION : PRELIMINARY REPORT" (PDF). Mir.gov.pl. Retrieved 2015-05-02.

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