Germania (airline)

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Germania
IATA ST	ICAO GMI	Callsign GERMANIA
Founded		1978
Hubs		none
Fleet size		27
Destinations		10
Headquarters		Berlin, Germany
Key people		O. Markow (CEO)
Website: http://www.germania.aero

Germania (Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH) is an airline based in Berlin, Germany. It operates mainly dry and wet lease services for other airlines, as well as a reduced holiday charter programme to the Mediterranean, North Africa and Georgia.

[edit] History

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A Fokker 100 airplane of Germania at Munich Airport

Germania was founded in April 1978 as SAT in Cologne and started operations in September 1978. It was renamed Germania in June 1986 .^[1] In 1992 the head office was relocated to Berlin-Tegel. In the same year Germania won the bid for flight services from the old German capital (Bonn) to the new one (Berlin) on behalf of the German government, establishing a short-lived "Beamten-Shuttle" (shuttle for civil servants).

The airline's main business is now the charter business: Germania flies, amongst others, on behalf of the German travel concern TUI and the German airline TUIfly. In 1998, the airline pioneered the use of aircraft for advertising in Germany. From 2003 to March 2005 Germania was acting in the low-cost airline business with its wholly owned affiliate "gexx" (Germania Express), until its operations were absorbed into dba.

Air Berlin chief, Joachim Hunold, was tasked by Germania owner, Hinrich Bischoff, to take charge of the future of the company shortly before Bischoff's death on 11 November 2005. But the contract between Bischoff and Hunold wasn't closed in the end, because of the decline of Bischoff's heirs. The airline has 647 employees (at March 2007).^[1]

[edit] Destinations

Germania operates charter services from:

Berlin to Adana, Ankara, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Izmir, Kayseri (Turkey)
Berlin to Bastia (Corsica)
Berlin to Heraklion (Crete)
Cologne to Tiblisi (Georgia)

The flights for TUIfly and Air Berlin are operated to their destinations.

[edit] Fleet

The Germania fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of December 2007):

5 Boeing 737-300 (which are operating for 1 by themself, 3 for TUIfly and 1 for Air Berlin)
8 Boeing 737-700 (4 are operated for TUIfly (3 in dry-lease and 1 in wet-lease) and 4 for Air Berlin)
14 Fokker 100 (which are operated for Air Berlin, will be replaced by Dash 8)

[edit] References

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