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Former German leisure airline
This article is about the defunct German leisure airline. For its Turkish parent company, see
SunExpress
.
SunExpress Deutschland
GmbH
was a German leisure
airline
headquartered in Gateway Gardens,
Flughafen
,
Frankfurt
.
[1]
It was a subsidiary of
SunExpress
, which itself is a
joint-venture
of
Turkish Airlines
and
Lufthansa
. Its main base was
Frankfurt Airport
with smaller bases at several other airports throughout Germany. The company ceased all operations in 2020.
History
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SunExpress Deutschland was founded on 8 June 2011 as a subsidiary of SunExpress and started operations with three
Boeing 737-800s
. It was founded in order to fly from Germany to the
Red Sea
using the German
AOC
. These routes have been served on 2 November 2011 for the first time and the network has since been extended to several more leisure destinations in Southern Europe and North Africa.
In February 2015, the
Lufthansa Group
announced that SunExpress Deutschland would be the operator of
Eurowings
' new long-haul operations, which are based at
Cologne Bonn Airport
, from November 2015. SunExpress Deutschland therefore has received leased
Airbus A330-200s
.
[2]
On 23 June 2020
SunExpress
announced SunExpress Deutschland would cease operations in 2020 and orderly be liquidated.
[3]
Its route network would partially be taken over by
SunExpress
and
Eurowings
.
[4]
[5]
Destinations
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]
Operated as SunExpress Deutschland
[
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]
As of February 2018, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following routes:
[6]
- Bulgaria
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Egypt
- Germany
- Greece
- Italy
- Lebanon
- Morocco
Norway
- Spain
- Turkey
Operated for Eurowings
[
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]
As of July 2017, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following long-haul routes for
Eurowings
:
[2]
- Barbados
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Germany
- Jamaica
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Namibia
- Thailand
- United States of America
Fleet
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]
As of January 2020, the SunExpress Deutschland fleet consisted of the following aircraft:
[10]
References
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External links
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Media related to
SunExpress Deutschland
at Wikimedia Commons
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