SunExpress Deutschland
SunExpress Deutschland GmbH was a German leisure airline headquartered in Gateway Gardens, Flughafen, Frankfurt.[2] It is a subsidiary of SunExpress, which itself is a joint-venture of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. Its main base is Frankfurt Airport with smaller bases at several other airports throughout Germany. The company ceased all operations in 2020.[3]
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Founded | 2010 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 2011 | ||||||
Ceased operations | 2020[1] | ||||||
Operating bases | Frankfurt Airport | ||||||
Focus cities | |||||||
Frequent-flyer program | SunPoints | ||||||
Fleet size | 20 | ||||||
Destinations | 48 | ||||||
Parent company | SunExpress | ||||||
Headquarters | Frankfurt, Germany | ||||||
Website | sunexpress |
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.[4]
On 23 June 2020 SunExpress announced SunExpress Deutschland would cease operations in 2020 and will be orderly liquidated. Its route network would be partially taken over by SunExpress and Eurowings.[5]
Destinations
Operated as SunExpress Deutschland
As of February 2018, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following routes:[6]
- Bulgaria
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Egypt
- Germany
- Berlin - Tegel Airport
- Cologne/Bonn - Cologne Bonn Airport Focus city
- Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf Airport Focus city
- Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport Base
- Hannover - Hannover Airport Focus city
- Leipzig - Leipzig/Halle Airport
- Munich - Munich Airport Focus city
- Stuttgart - Stuttgart Airport Focus city
- Greece
- Italy
- Lebanon
- Morocco
- Agadir - Agadir Airport
Norway
- Spain
- Madrid - Barajas Airport[7]
- Barcelona - El Prat Airport[7]
- Fuerteventura - Fuerteventura Airport
- Lanzarote - Lanzarote Airport
- Palma de Mallorca - Palma de Mallorca Airport
- Turkey
- Adana - Adana Şakirpaşa Airport
- Ankara - Esenboğa International Airport
- Antalya - Antalya Airport
- Bodrum - Bodrum Airport
- Dalaman - Dalaman Airport
- Elâzığ - Elazığ Airport
- Gaziantep - Oğuzeli Airport
- Istanbul - Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
- Izmir - Adnan Menderes Airport
- Kayseri - Erkilet International Airport
- Samsun - Samsun-Çarşamba Airport
- Trabzon - Trabzon Airport
Operated for Eurowings
As of July 2017, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following long-haul routes for Eurowings:[4]
- Barbados
- Bridgetown - Grantley Adams International Airport seasonal
- Cuba
- Havana - Jose Marti International Airport
- Varadero - Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport
- Dominican Republic
- Germany
- Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf Airport Base
- Jamaica
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Namibia
- Thailand
- United States of America
- Fort Myers - Southwest Florida International Airport[8]
- Las Vegas - McCarran International Airport
- Miami - Miami International Airport[9]
- Orlando - Orlando International Airport
- Seattle - Seattle/Tacoma International Airport
Fleet
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As of January 2020, the SunExpress Deutschland fleet consisted of the following aircraft:[10]
Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||
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C | Y | Total | ||||
Airbus A330-200 | 7 | — | 21 | 289 | 310 | operated for Eurowings[11] |
Boeing 737-800 | 13 | — | — | 189 | 189 | D-ASXB in Eintracht Frankfurt special livery |
Boeing 737 MAX 9 | — | 3[12] | TBA | |||
Total | 20 | 3 |
References
- {Cite news|url=https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/airline/XQG%7Ctitle= SunExpress Deutschland - Out of Business |access-date=2020-08-06}}
- "Imprint". SunExpress. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
SunExpress Gateway Gardens De-Saint-Exupéry-Straße 10 D-60549 Frankfurt am Main
- https://www.sunexpress.com/en/company/media-center/press-releases/new-strategic-positioning-for-sunexpress
- Germany, COMKOM° GmbH. "Neue Eurowings geht an den Start – Ticketverkauf für Flüge ab Oktober - Meldungen - Lufthansa Group". www.lufthansagroup.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
- https://www.sunexpress.com/en/company/media-center/press-releases/new-strategic-positioning-for-sunexpress
- "Destination map". sunexpress.com. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- Ltd. 2019, UBM (UK). "Lufthansa outlines SunExpress Germany 737 operation in 4Q17". Routesonline. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
- Ruane, Laura (7 July 2017). "RSW airport to gain nonstop flights to German cities of Munich, Cologne in May 2018". www.news-press.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- aero.de - "Eurowings cancels Dubai and ends Boston earlier" (German) 15 August 2016
- planespotters.net - SunExpress Germany Fleet Details retrieved 12 January 2020
- Germany, COMKOM° GmbH. "Eurowings - Themen - Lufthansa Group". www.lufthansagroup.com. Archived from the original on 28 August 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
- "SunExpress Deutschland to add 3 B737 MAX 9s in 2019". ch-aviation.com. Retrieved 19 March 2019.