Germanwings: Route Exchange Carrier

Richard Maslen September 02, 2010

OVERVIEW

Germanwings is a low-cost carrier which is 100% owned by the Lufthansa group. It operates low-cost services across Europe. It is an important part of the Lufthansa group, having posted a 24Million Euro profit in 2009.

FLEET

18 Airbus A319 with 150 seats
12 Airbus A319 with 144 seats
2 B737-800 with 189 seats sub chartered AC's for the SU2010 season

Total 30 Airbus A319 & 2 B737-800

PERSONNEL

NAME	JOB TITLE
Thomas Winkelmann	Managing Director
Michael Klee	Senior Vice President Network Management
Thomas Storck	Head of Network Planning
Dirk Kokott	Commercial Director Airports
John Fehrens	Airport Relations Manager

NETWORK STRATEGY

Germanwings operates low-cost flights on behalf of the Lufthansa group, with its focus away from the major Lufthansa hubs of Frankfurt and Munich. Its major operating bases are located in Cologne, Stuttgart and Berlin Tegel with focus markets in Hamburg and Hannover. It has a network of over fourty destinations in Europe for the coming winter season, which are a mix of city markets and sunshine routes, with a strong presence in Eastern Europe. For the present Summer season, it also inaugurated services to the Israeli capital of Tel Aviv.

AIRLINE REQUIREMENTS

Germanwings is currently planning for Summer and Winter 2011 and would welcome the following information from airports wishing to send a proposal through Route Exchange;