SunExpress Deutschland GmbH was a German leisure airline headquartered in Gateway Gardens, Flughafen, Frankfurt, Hesse.[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
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.
On 23 June 2020 SunExpress announced SunExpress Deutschland would cease operations in 2020 and orderly be liquidated.[2] Its route network would partially be taken over by SunExpress and Eurowings.[3][4]
Destinations
Operated as SunExpress Deutschland
As of February 2018, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following routes:[5]
Norway
- Bulgaria
- Burgas – Burgas Airport
- Varna – Varna Airport
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Sarajevo – Sarajevo International Airport
- Egypt
- Hurghada – Hurghada International Airport
- Marsa Alam – Marsa Alam International Airport
- Germany
- Berlin – Tegel Airport
- Cologne/Bonn – Cologne Bonn Airport (Base)
- Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport (Base)
- Frankfurt – Frankfurt Airport (Base)
- Hanover – Hannover Airport (Base)
- Leipzig – Leipzig/Halle Airport
- Munich – Munich Airport (Base)
- Stuttgart – Stuttgart Airport (Base)
- Greece
- Athens – Athens International Airport[6]
- Heraklion – Heraklion International Airport
- Italy
- Lamezia Terme – Lamezia Terme International Airport
- Lebanon
- Beirut – Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport
- Morocco
- Agadir – Agadir Airport
- Oslo – Oslo Airport, Gardermoen[6]
- Spain
- Madrid – Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport[6]
- Barcelona – Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport[6]
- Fuerteventura – Fuerteventura Airport
- Lanzarote – Lanzarote Airport
- Palma de Mallorca – Palma de Mallorca Airport
- Turkey
- Adana – Adana Şakirpaşa Airport
- Ankara – Ankara Esenboğa Airport
- Antalya – Antalya Airport
- Bodrum – Milas–Bodrum Airport
- Dalaman – Dalaman Airport
- Elazığ – Elazığ Airport
- Gaziantep – Oğuzeli Airport
- Istanbul – Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
- İzmir – 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:<[7]
- Barbados
- Bridgetown – Grantley Adams International Airport seasonal
- Cuba
- Havana – Jose Marti International Airport
- Varadero – Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport
- Dominican Republic
- Punta Cana – Punta Cana International Airport
- Puerto Plata – Gregorio Luperón International Airport
- Germany
- Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport Base
- Jamaica
- Montego Bay – Sangster International Airport
- Mauritius
- Port Louis – Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport
- Mexico
- Cancún – Cancún International Airport
- Namibia
- Windhoek – Hosea Kutako International Airport
- Thailand
- Bangkok – Suvarnabhumi Airport
- Phuket – Phuket International Airport
Fleet
As of January 2020, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following aircraft:
External links
References
- Imprint SunExpress, retrieved 2019-07-15^
- SunExpress Deutschland - Out of Business retrieved 2020-08-06^
- New strategic positioning for SunExpress: Clear focus on tourism in Turkey SunExpress 23 June 2020^
- SunExpress Closes German Arm Airliner World September 2020 page 8^
- Destination map sunexpress.com, retrieved 6 July 2017^
- UBM (UK) Ltd. 2019. Lufthansa outlines SunExpress Germany 737 operation in 4Q17 Routesonline, retrieved 2019-02-18^
- COMKOM° GmbH Germany. Neue Eurowings geht an den Start – Ticketverkauf für Flüge ab Oktober - Meldungen - Lufthansa Group www.lufthansagroup.com, retrieved 4 May 2017^
- Ruane, Laura. RSW airport to gain nonstop flights to German cities of Munich, Cologne in May 2018 news-press.com, 7 July 2017, retrieved 7 July 2017^
- aero.de - "Eurowings cancels Dubai and ends Boston earlier" (German) 15 August 2016^
- COMKOM° GmbH Germany. Eurowings - Themen - Lufthansa Group www.lufthansagroup.com, retrieved 4 May 2017^