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Germanwings
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Germanwings GmbH was a German low-cost airline wholly owned by Lufthansa which operated under the Eurowings brand. It was based in Cologne with hubs at Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport, Hamburg Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport, and Munich Airport; and further bases at Hannover Airport and Dortmund Airport.
Key facts
- Airline.airline
- Germanwings
- Airline.logo
- Germanwings logo.svg
- Airline.logo_size
- 250
- Airline.fleet_size
- 33
- Airline.IATA
- 4U
- Airline.ICAO
- GWI
- Airline.callsign
- GERMANWINGS
- Airline.parent
- Lufthansa Group
- Airline.headquarters
- Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Airline.key_people
- Executive Board:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.germanwings.com
- Image
- Germanwings Airbus A319-132.jpg
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- Commons category
- Germanwings
- IATA airline designator
- 4U
- ICAO airline designator
- GWI
- inception
- 1996-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Germanwings
- airline accounting code
- 051
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2020-03-24
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Early years
- Takeover of Lufthansa routes from 2012
- Integration into Eurowings from 2015
- Corporate affairs
- Service concept
- Business trends
- Destinations
- Codeshare agreements
- Fleet
- Special liveries
- Incidents and accidents
- See also
- References
- External links
Germanwings GmbH was a German low-cost airline wholly owned by Lufthansa which operated under the Eurowings brand. It was based in Cologne with hubs at Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport, Hamburg Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport, and Munich Airport; and further bases at Hannover Airport and Dortmund Airport.
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. 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. Germanwings was closed and merged back into Eurowings in April 2020 as part of a broad restructuring during the COVID-19 pandemic.