Cirrus Airlines

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Cirrus Airlines
IATA C9	ICAO RUS	Callsign CIRRUS AIR
Founded		1995
Hubs		Saarbrücken Airport
Fleet size		26
Destinations		15
Headquarters		Saarbrücken, Germany
Key people
Website: http://www.cirrus-world.de

Cirrus Airlines is an airline based in Saarbrücken, Germany. It operates both charter and scheduled flights, the latter on behalf of Lufthansa. Its main base is Saarbrücken Airport^[1].

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

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Cirrus was founded in February 1995 as Cirrus Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH and operated an executive charter business. In March 1998, Cirrus Airlines received its licence to operate scheduled services between Saarbrücken and Hamburg. In August 1999, Cirrus took over the route from Mannheim City Airport to Berlin Tempelhof from Cosmos Air.

An important step was taken in February 2000, upon the 5th anniversary of Cirrus Airlines, when it established a cooperative partnership with German owned Lufthansa and became a Team Lufthansa franchise member. In April that year, Cirrus received licences to operate regularly scheduled service between Mannheim City Airport and Hamburg and between Berlin and Sylt/Westerland. From 2001 onwards, Cirrus steadily expanded its business, with scheduled services opening between Saarbrücken and Berlin Tempelhof (March 2001), between Berlin Tempelhof and Heringsdorf Airport on the island of Usedom (May 2002), between Rostock and Munich (May 2002), between Leipzig/Halle and Zürich (January 2003), between Leipzig/Halle and Hamburg (January 2003), between Dresden and Hamburg (March 2003), between Frankfurt and Skopje, Macedonia (April 2003), between Leipzig/Halle and Cologne (May 2003), between Frankfurt and Ohrid (June 2003), between Mannheim City Airport and Dresden (March 2004), between Dresden and Zürich (April 2004), between Mannheim City Airport and Olbia (May 2004) and between Munich and London City (May 2004).

Cirrus Airlines is a company of Cirrus Group Holding including Cirrus Aviation/DCA (business charter), Augsburg Airways (Lufthansa Regional) and Swiss Eagle. The group is operating over 60 aircraft and has 1,600 employees (at November 2007)^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Destinations

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Cirrus Airlines operates the following services (at November 2007):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Berlin (Tempelhof International Airport), Dresden, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Mannheim City Airport, Munich, Münster Osnabrück International Airport, Stuttgart, Saarbrücken and Heringsdorf on Usedom (Heringsdorf Airport).

International scheduled destinations: Billund, Chişinău, Salzburg and Zürich

Image:Embraer 170 Cirrus D-ALIE.jpg

Cirrus Airlines Embraer 170

[edit] Fleet

The Cirrus Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at May 2007):

1 Boeing 737-500 (which is operated for Swiss International Air Lines on routes including Zurich-Prague)
2 Bombardier Dash 8 Q100
1 Bombardier Dash 8 Q300
9 Dornier 328-100
4 Dornier 328Jet
1 Embraer ERJ 145MP
2 Embraer ERJ 170

Other aircraft (at July 2006):^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

[edit] References

^ "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 66.

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