This article is about the low-cost carrier of the Lufthansa Group. For the 1980s airline, see German Wings. For wings of the German Air Force, see Category:Luftwaffe Wings.
Germanwings
IATA
ICAO
Callsign
4U
GWI
GERMAN WINGS
Founded
1997 as a division of Eurowings 2002 as a separate company
Ceased operations
7 April 2020[1]
Operating bases
Berlin Tegel Airport
Cologne Bonn Airport
Dortmund Airport
Hamburg Airport
Hannover Airport
Munich Airport
Stuttgart Airport
Frequent-flyer program
Boomerang Club
Miles & More
Fleet size
33
Parent company
Lufthansa Group
Headquarters
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Key people
Executive Board: Michael Knitter, Francesco Sciortino
Website
eurowings.com
Germanwings GmbH was[1] a German low-cost airline wholly owned by Lufthansa[2] which operated under the Eurowings brand. It was based in Cologne with hubs at Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport, Hamburg Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport, Munich Airport and further bases at Hannover Airport and Dortmund Airport.[3]
Germanwings operated independently as Lufthansa's low-cost carrier until October 2015, when Lufthansa decided to fully transfer the brand identity of its low cost short haul-product to Eurowings. After 2016, Germanwings operated as a wet lease operator for its sister company Eurowings, with the Germanwings branding being phased out at this time. The IATA code "4U" continued to operate under the Eurowings brand until March 2018, when it was abandoned and replaced with the Eurowings designator EW.[4] Germanwings was closed in April 2020 as part of a broad restructuring.[1]
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