List of defunct airlines of Germany

This is a list of defunct airlines of Germany.[1][2]

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto;" ! style="width:175px;"|Airline ! Image ! IATA ! ICAO ! Callsign ! Commenced operations ! Ceased operations ! style="width:175px;"|Notes

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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | A
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• Advance Air || || || AXX || || 2012 || 2017 || Operated Cessna 550, Piper Cheyenne II[3]
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• Aero Express || || || || || 1949 || 1956 || Founded by Herr Russell. Operated Vickers VC.1 Viking[4]
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• Aero Flight||Aero Flight Airbus A320.jpg||GV||ARF||AERO FOX||2004||2005||
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• Aero Lloyd||McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (DC-9-83), Aero Lloyd AN0114429.jpg||YP||AEF||AERO LLOYD||1981||2003|| Re-established as Aero Flight a year later
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• Aero Transport Flugbetriebsgesellschaft || || || || || 1958 || 1963 || Operated Lockheed Constellation, Vickers VC.1 Viking[5]
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• Aeroline || || 7E || AWU || || 2012 || 2017 || Operated Cessna 550, Piper Cheyenne II[6]
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• Aerotec Airways || || || || || 1989 || 1998 || Operated Beech King Air, Piper Seneca[7]
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• Aerotour || || || || || 1958 || 1959 || Operated Douglas DC-4[8] and Vickers Viking
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• Air Berlin||D-ALPI_2_A330-223_Air_Berlin(BER)_DUS_24JUN12_(7438586000).jpg||AB||BER||AIR BERLIN||1991||2017||
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• Air Berlin Aviation || || H3 || TCN || || 2018 || 2018 || Acquired by Thomas Cook Aviation. Operated Airbus A321-200[9]
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• Air Berlin USA||Air Berlin USA Boeing 707-300 Manteufel.jpg||ZF||||||1979||1991||Renamed to Air Berlin
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• Air Bremen||Airbremen.jpg||HR||BRN||AIR BREMEN||1988||1990||
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• Air Cargo Germany||Air Cargo Germany Boeing 747-400F Breidenstein-1.jpg||6U||ACX||LOADMASTER||2009||2013||
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• Air Classic||||||||||1974||1989||Renamed/merged to Classic Wings
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• Air Commerz||Boeing 707-138B (Air Commerz) ex D-ADAQ.jpg||||DX||AIRCOMER||1970||1972||
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• Air de Cologne||||||||||1987||1988||Formed by Scandinavian Airlines. Acquired by TNT.
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• Air Evex || || || EVE || || 1975 || 2005 || Operated Beech King Air, Cessna Citation, Hawker 800, Learjet 45[10]
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• Air Germanica || || || || || 1995 || 1996 || [11]
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• Air Lipsia||||W2||||||2010||||
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• Air Lloyd || || || || || 1961 || 1964 || Formed by the merger of Deutsche Nahluftverkehr and Deutsche Taxiflug[12]
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• Air Omega||Embraer EMB-120(ERF) Brasilia, Air Omega AN0375495.jpg||OE||AOW||||2001||2004||
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• Air Service Wildgruber || || || || || 2003 || 2009 || [13]
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• All-Air || || DZ || || || 1965 || 1966 || Merged with Transportflug. Operated Douglas DC-4[14]
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• Amadeus||[[File:Cessna 421B Golden Eagle Amadeus Flugdienst, EDRT Trier-Föhren, Germany PP1210057611.jpg|100px]]||B5||||||1996||2004||
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• Antares Airtransport||||||ANM||ANTARES||2001||2005|| Operated Let Turbolet
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• Atlantis||Douglas DC-8-33, D-ADIM, Atlantis.jpg||NO||NOU||ATLANTIS||1968||1972||
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• Augsburg Airways||D-ADHD (4479572120) (2).jpg||IQ||AUB||AUGSBURG-AIR||1986||2013||
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• Augusta Air||Augusta Air Cessna 560XL Citation XLS D-CTTT.JPG||||AUF||AUGUSTA||1985||2014||Operated Cessna 560XL
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• Aviaction||Aviaction Fokker F28-1000 Volpati-1.jpg||HC||||AVIACTION||1969||1973||Operated Fokker F28
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• Azur Air||Azur Air Germany Boeing 767-300 D-AZUC (39342872922).jpg||UR||ARZ||BLUE EAGLE||2017||2018||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | B
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• Baden Air||||||||||1998||2000||Merged into Cirrus Airlines
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• Badische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft||||||||||1923||1926||
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• Bavaria Fluggesellschaft||D-BIBI HPR7 Dart Herald 200 Bavaria HAJ 02MAY64 (6890685055).jpg||BV||||BAVARIA||1957||1977||Merged with Germanair to form Bavaria Germanair
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• Bavaria Germanair||Bavaria Germanair Airbus A300 Haafke.jpg||BV||||BAVARIA||1977||1979||Merged into Hapag-Lloyd Flug
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• Bayerische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft||||||||||1925||1928||
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• Bayerischer Flugdienst||||BT||||||1954||1975||
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• Berline||Ilyushin Il-18V, Berline AN1198238.jpg||BZ||TBL||BEROLINER||1991||1994||
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• Bin Air||BinAir Fairchild Metroliner (D-CCCC) @ HAJ, June 2010.jpg||||BID||BINAIR||1996||2018
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• Blue Wings||Blue Wings Airbus A321 KvW.jpg||QW||BWG||BLUE WINGS||2003||2010||
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• Bonair Business Charter||D-CMTM Do.328-110 MTM ZRH 17JUN03 (8515613480).jpg|| ||BOB||TWISTER||2002||2005||
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• Bremenfly||Bremenfly B734 D-ABRE.jpg||8B||BFY||BORGWARDT||2009||2010||
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• Britannia Airways Germany||[[File:113cg - Britannia GMBH Boeing 767-304ER, D-AGYC@FRA,20.10.2000 - Flickr - Aero Icarus.jpg|100px]]||BN||DBY||||1997||2001||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | C
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• Calair||||DZ||||CALAIR||1970||1972||
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• Cimber Air||Cimber Air Aerospatiale N-262A-30 Haafke.jpg||EG;GW||||||||1992||Formed by Denmark's Cimber Air.
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• Cirrus Airlines||[[File:Embraer ERJ-175-200LR Cirrus Airlines D-ALIB, FRA Frankfurt (Rhein-Main), Germany PP1208023971.jpg|100px]]||C9||RUS||CIRRUS||1998||2012||Cosmos Air (1997-1999) merged into Cirrus Airlines. Baden Air (1998-2000) merged into Cirrus Airlines
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• Cirrus Aviation||Embraer ERJ-135BJ Legacy 600, Cirrus Aviation JP6457482.jpg||||RUS||||2001||2008||Formed by Cirrus Airlines (Cirrus Group). Acquired by ATON and merged into DC Aviation on 31 March 2008.
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• City-Air||Saab 340B, City-Air AN0481452.jpg||6E||CIP||CITYWAYS||1971||2004||
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• Cologne Air Transport||||||||||1991||1996||
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• Condor Berlin||Condor Berlin Airbus A320 Jonsson.jpg||DE||CIB||||1997||2009||
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• Condor Luftreederei||Vickers Viking 1B D-BONE LH Cargo BH 09.05.64 edited-2.jpg||||||||1955||1961||Renamed/merged to Condor
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• Condor Syndikat||||||||||1924||1927||
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• Contact Air||86cd - Contact Air Fokker 50; D-AFFX@ZRH;28.02.2000 (5553252882).jpg||C3||KIS||CONTACT AIR||1974||2012||Merged into OLT Express Germany
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• Continentale Deutsche Luftreederei||||||||||1958||1962||
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• Cosmos Air||37ab - Cosmos Air Dornier 328-110; D-COSA@ZRH;22.08.1998 (5553250788).jpg||ZE||AZE||||1997||1999||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | D
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• Danziger Luftpost||||||||||1921||1923||
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• Dauair||DauAir Saab 340B.jpg||D5||DAU||DAUAIR||2005||2006||
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• DBA||Boeing 737-36Q, DBA AN0871795.jpg||DI||BAG||SPEEDWAY||2005||2008||Rebranded as Air Berlin
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• DELAG||LZ7 passenger zeppelin mod.jpg||||||||1910||1935||
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• Delta Air||Dornier 228-201, Deutsche BA AN0208146.jpg||||||||1977||1992||
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• Deruluft||Stettin 1927 - Carl Meurling & Yngve Larsson.jpg||||||||1921||1937||Joint German-Soviet airline
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• Deutsche Aero Lloyd||||||||||1923||1926||Merged with Junkers Luftverkehr to form Deutsche Luft Hansa
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• Deutsche BA||TXL DeutscheBA B737-300 D-ADBL.jpg||||||||1992||2005||Rebranded as DBA
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• Deutsche Luft Hansa||Stettin 1927 - Carl Meurling & Yngve Larsson - Lufthansa.jpg||||||||1926||1945||
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• Deutsche Luft-Reederei||AEG J.II Kabine.jpg||||||||1917||1923||Rebranded as Deutsche Aero Lloyd
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• Deutsche Lufthansa||Bundesarchiv Bild 183-41100-0006, Leipzig, Flughafen, Flugzeug.jpg||||||||1955||1963||Sued by the West German based Lufthansa and liquidated. Staff, fleet and route network transferred to Interflug
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• Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei||Hindenburg at lakehurst.jpg||||||||1935||1939||Successor to DELAG. Resurrected in 2001.
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• DLR Flugbetriebe||Dassault Falcon 20E-5, Germany - DLR Flugbetriebe JP6237227.jpg||||GPL||||1967||||
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• DLT||Fokker 50, DLT - Deutsche Luftverkehrsgesellschaft AN0114414.jpg||DW||DLT||||1958||1992||Renamed/merged to Lufthansa CityLine
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | E
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• EastWest Airlines||Dornier Do-328-100, East West Airlines JP6103361.jpg||5D||EWT||E-WEST||1994||1995||
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• Elbe Air||Dassault Falcon (Mystere) 20E, Elbe Air AN0433313.jpg||||LBR||MOTION||1995||2008||
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• Elbeflug
• N-2501D Noratlas D-ACUT (cn D065).JPG
• 1969
• 1972
• Never launched[15]
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• Euroberlin France||Boeing 737-3Y0, Euroberlin France AN0193510.jpg||EE||EEB||EUROBER||1988||1994||Franco-German joint airline
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• Euro-hopper.com||||||||||2003||2003||Renamed/merged to Denim Airways
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• European Air Express||D-BCRS European Air Express (EAE) (2185550037).jpg||EA||EAL||STAR WING||1999||2007||
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• EuroCity Line||||||||||1998||1998||
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• Eurowings Flug||Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-200ER, Eurowings AN0185810.jpg||EW||EWF;GWI||||1995||2002||Renamed/merged to Germanwings
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• Excellent Air||Excellent Air - Dornier 328-110.jpg||||GZA||||1969||2007||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | F
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• FLM Aviation||[[File:Swearingen Metro III FLM-Aviation D-CSAL, GRQ Groningen (Eelde), Netherlands PP1119702178.jpg|100px]]||||FKI||KIEL AIR||1973||2013||
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• Fly FTI||G-EPFR 2 A320-231 FlyFTI MAN 24MAR00 (5857469863).jpg||BZ||FTI||FROG-LINE||1998||2001||
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• Futura Germany||||||FUT||||2007||2008||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | G
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• General Air||General Air Yakovlev Yak-40FG at Düsseldorf Airport (2).jpg||GQ||||GENERAL AIR||1962||1976||
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• German Airways||Eurowings_Bombardier_Q400_D-ABQE_(39342876462).jpg||HE||LGW||WALTER||1980||2020||Operated European routes on behalf of Eurowings, rebranded from Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (LGW)
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• German Cargo Services||Douglas DC-8-73AF, German Cargo AN0203135.jpg||FX||GEC||||1977||1993||Renamed/merged to Lufthansa Cargo
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• German European Airlines||||||||||1994||1994||
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• German Sky Airlines||Boeing 737-883, German Sky Airlines JP7096610.jpg||||GHY||GERMAN SKY||2004||2012||A subsidiary of Sky Airlines
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• German Wings||German Wings MD-83; EI-BTX, April 1989 BXX (6350653417).jpg||PW||KFK||GERMAN WINGS||1989||1990||Went bankrupt
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• Germanair||Fokker F-28 1000 D-AGAB Germanair RM 07.05.73 edited-2.jpg||DV||||GERMANAIR||1968||1977||Merged with Bavaria Fluggesellschaft to form Bavaria Germanair
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• Germania||D-ASTW A321 Germania ACE 28-03-2017 (33772418444).jpg||ST||GMI||GERMANIA||1978||2019||Berlin European UK (1986-1991) merged into Germania
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• Germania Express||Boeing 737-75B, Hapag-Lloyd Express (Germania) AN0837611.jpg||L3||GMQ||CORGI||2012||2013||
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• Germanwings||Germanwings A319 D-AILK.jpg||4U||GWI||GERMANWINGS||2002||2020||Integrated into Eurowings
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• Green Airlines||||||||||2020||2022||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | H
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• HADAG Air
• GP
• 1974
• 1983
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• Hamburg Airlines||De Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8, Hamburg Airlines AN0114407.jpg||HX||HAS||HAMBURG AIR||1988||1997||
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• Hamburg Airways||D-AHHC A320-214 Hamburg Aws DUS 23JUL12 (7430357414).jpg||HK||HAY||HAMBURG AIRWAYS||2011||2014||
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• Hamburg International||Hamburg International A319 D-AHIM.jpg||4R||HHI||HAMBURG JET||1998||2010||
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• Hanseflug||D-FJKA (2541862921).jpg||||HFL||HANSEFLUG||1992||2013||
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• Hapag-Lloyd Express||Hapag-Lloyd Express Fokker F100 at Cologne Bonn Airport.jpg||X3||HLX||YELLOW CAB||2002||2006||Merged with Hapag-Lloyd Flug to form TUIfly
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• Hapag-Lloyd Flug||Boeing 727-81, Hapag-Lloyd JP54444.jpg||HF||HLF||HAPAG LLOYD||1979||2006||Merged with Hapag-Lloyd Express to form TUIfly
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• Holiday Express||Do 228 Düne 1.jpg||HL (HX)||HLE||HOLIDAY EXPRESS||1983||1987||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | I
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• Interflug||Bundesarchiv DH 2 Bild-F-04180, Berlin-Schönefeld, Flughafenbau, Il14.jpg||IF||IFL||INTERFLUG||1959||1991||Originally formed in 1958 in East Germany. Obtained assets of Deutsche Lufthansa in 1963. Reorganized 3 October 1990 after German reunification. Assets put under control of Treuhandanstalt (public trust managing the privatization of East German enterprises). Decided on 7 February 1991 to be liquidated as uneconomical to operate after attempted take-overs by Lufthansa and British Airways. Operated its last services on 30 April 1991.
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• Interot Airways||De Havilland Canada DHC-8-103 Dash 8, Interot Airways AN0114402.jpg||IQ||IRT||||1990||1995||Renamed/merged to Augsburg Airways
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• Interregional (IFG)||Cimber Air Aerospatiale N-262A-30 Haafke.jpg||IP||||||1967||1974||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | J
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• Jetair||[[File:Boeing 727-100 Jetair D-AJAA, DUS Düsseldorf (Duesseldorf International), Germany PP1166191321.jpg|100px]]||JA||||JETAIR||1982||1984||
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• Jetisfaction||||||||||2011||2012||
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• Junkers Luftverkehr||||||||||1924||1926||Merged with Deutsche Aero Lloyd to form Deutsche Luft Hansa
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | K
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• Karl Herfurtner Düsseldorf (KHD)||||||||||1955||1957||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | L
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• Lloyd-Luftdienst||||||||||||||
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• LowFare Jet||||||||||2002||2003||
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• LTU International||Airbus A330-200 LTU VI.jpg||LT||LTU||LTU||1955||2011||Merged into Air Berlin
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• LTU-Süd International Airways ||LTU-Süd Boeing 757 D-AMUV in Hamburg.jpg||LU||LTS||||1988||1997||
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• Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (LGW)||Eurowings_Bombardier_Q400_D-ABQE_(39342876462).jpg||HE||LGW||WALTER||1980||2020|| Rebranded to German Airways
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• Lufttransport Süd (LTS)||||BV||||||1983||1988||Renamed/merged to LTU-Süd International Airways
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• Luftverkehr Friesland-Harle||Cessna 172 D-EVLB.jpg||||||||1983||2011||Merged with FLN Frisia Luftverkehr
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | M
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• Modern Air Transport||Convair 990A N5624 Modern MIA 01.12.73 edited-2.jpg||KV||||MODERN||1961||1975||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | N
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• Nürnberger Flugdienst (NFD)||Fairchild SA-227AC Metro III, NFD - Nurnberger Flugdienst AN0063920.jpg||NS||NFD||FLAMINGO||1974||1992||Merged with RFG Regionalflug to form Eurowings
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• Nightexpress||Beech 99 Airliner, Nightexpress AN2166007.jpg||||EXT||EXECUTIVE||1984||2017||
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• Nora Air Services
• 1970
• 1972
• Never launched
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• Nordseeflug Sylter Lufttransport||||||||||1966||1968||Renamed/merged to Atlantis
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | O
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• Oberschlesische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft||||||||||1925||1937||
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• OLT Express Germany||OLT Express Airbus A320-214 Idaszak.jpg||OL||OLT||OLTRA||2011||2013||Went bankrupt
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | P
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• Paninternational||Paninternational BAC 1-11-515FB.jpg||DR|| ||DELTA ROMEO||1968||1971||
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• PrivatAir Deutschland||PrivatAir Airbus A319 KvW.jpg||||PTG||||2003||2018||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | R
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• RAS - Rheinland Air Service||Short 360-300, RAS - Rheinland Air Service AN0067032.jpg||RW||RLD||||1971||2002||
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• Ratioflug||Airbus A300B2-1C, Ratioflug AN0059105.jpg||||RAT||BATMAN||1982||1997||
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• Regio-Air||||||RAG||GERMAN LINK||1993||2009||
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• Regional Air Express||D-CAVA (3478037750).jpg||||REW||REGIONAL WINGS||2004||2010||
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• RFG Regionalflug||ATR ATR-42-300, RFG - Regionalflug AN0167126.jpg||VG||RFG||RFG||1976||1993||Merged with Nürnberger Flugdienst to form Eurowings
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• Rheingau Air Service
• D-EGAO (7813479718).jpg
• KG
• 1974
• 1983 (or 1979)
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | S
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• Saarland Airlines||Airbus A320-231, Saarland Airlines JP82747.jpg||QW||SLL||SAARLAND||1992||1993||
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• Sächsische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft||||||||||1924||1926||
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• Special Air Transport (SAT)||Sud SE-210 Caravelle 10B1R, SAT Flug - Special Air Transport AN0333413.jpg||JO||DST||||1978||1986||Rebranded as Germania
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• Schlesische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft||||||||||||||
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• SkyTeam Luftfahrtunternehmen||||||||||||||
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• Small Planet Airlines||D-ABDB (35004283723).jpg||5P||LLX||GERMANJET||2015||2018||A subsidiary of the now defunct Small Planet Airlines
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• Star XL German Airlines||[[File:Airbus A320-232 Star XL German Airlines D-AXLA, HAJ Hannover (Langenhagen), Germany PP1154853198.jpg|100px]]||||GXL||||2006||2006||Rebranded as XL Airways Germany
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• Südavia||||FV||VXY||SUDAVIA||1984||1990||
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• Südflug International||Douglas DC-7C, D-ABAC, Sudflug.jpg||SZ||||SUEDFLUG||1952||1968||Acquired by Lufthansa
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• Südwestflug||||||||||1964||1968||Acquired by Germanair
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• SunExpress Deutschland||D-ASXT (18884224456).jpg||XG||SXD||SUNRISE||2011||2020||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | T
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• Tel Aviv Air||||U8||CYF||TUS AIR||2021||2022||
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• Tempelhof Airways||Tempelhof Airways USA Saab 340 Manteufel.jpg||CL||TEH||TEMPELHOF||1981||1991||
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• Tempelhof Express Airlines||Dornier 328-110, Tempelhof Express AN0063918.jpg||FC||SBY||||1998||2001||
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• Thuringia Airways||Dornier 328-110, Thuringia Airlines AN0289175.jpg||FC||SBY||||1997||1998||Renamed/merged to Tempelhof Express Airlines
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• Trans-Avia Düsseldorf|| ||||||TAD||1957||1959||
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• TransAer Cologne||||||||||1998||2000||
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• Transportflug||TransportFlug Douglas C-54 Skymaster Volpati-1.jpg||||||||1966||1970||Merged into Calair
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• Triple Alpha Luftfahrtgesellschaft||||||||||1995||2011||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | V
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• Vibro Air Flugservice||D-AVIB Embraer EMB 135BJ Legacy 600 E35L - VIB (29856051965).jpg||||VIB||||1994||2013||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | W
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• WDL Flugdienst ||Fokker F-27-100 Friendship, D-BAKO, WDL Flugdienst (WE)-1.jpg||WE||||||1955||1991||Renamed/merged to WDL Aviation
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• Westflug||D-EWAE Cessna 172 Skyhawk FPF Langenfeld.jpg||||WFA||||||||
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• Wirtschaftsflug||Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules (L-382G), Wirtschaftsflug AN1052972.jpg||WS||||||1972||1982||
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• colspan="9" style="font-size:large; background-color:#eaecf0;" | X
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• XL Airways Germany ||XL Airways Boeing 737-800 D-AXLD DUS.jpg||X4||GXL||STARDUST||2006||2013||Went bankrupt
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• colspan="8" |

Y

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• Yourways
• Privateways Quest Kodiak 100 D-FBHI JadeWeserAirport.jpg
• PWY
• YOURWAYS
• 2017
• 2019
• [16]
• }

See also

• List of airlines of Germany
• List of airports in Germany