List of defunct airlines of Germany
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This is a list of defunct airlines of Germany.[1][2]
| Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | ||||||||
| Abacus Air | 1977 | 1985 | Operated Swearingen Metroliner | |||||
| Advance Air | AXX | 2012 | 2017 | Operated Cessna 550, Piper Cheyenne II[3] | ||||
| Aero Express | 1956 | 1957 | Operated Vickers VC.1 Viking[4] Merged into KHD | |||||
| Aero Flight | GV | ARF | AERO FOX | 2004 | 2005 | |||
| Aero Lloyd | YP | AEF | AERO LLOYD | 1981 | 2003 | |||
| Aeroline | 7E | AWU | 2012 | 2017 | Operated Cessna 550, Piper Cheyenne II. Renamed Sylt Air | |||
| Aerotec Airways | 1989 | 1998 | Operated Beech King Air, Piper Seneca[5] | |||||
| Aerotour Deutsche Luftreederei | 1958 | 1959 | Operated Douglas DC-4 and Vickers Viking[6] | |||||
| Air Berlin | AB | BER | AIR BERLIN | 1991 | 2017 | Previously a U.S.A. airline | ||
| Air Berlin Aviation | H3 | TCN | 2018 | 2018 | Operated Airbus A321-200[7] Renamed Thomas Cook Aviation | |||
| Air Berlin USA | ZF | 1979 | 1991 | Renamed Air Berlin | ||||
| Air Bremen | HR | BRN | AIR BREMEN | 1989 | 1990 | |||
| Air Cargo Germany | 6U | ACX | LOADMASTER | 2009 | 2013 | |||
| Air Commerz | DX | AIRCOMER | 1970 | 1972 | ||||
| Air de Cologne | 1987 | 1988 | Scandinavian Airlines subsidiary. Merged into TNT | |||||
| Air Evex | EVE | 1975 | 2005 | Operated Beech King Air, Cessna Citation, Hawker 800, Learjet 45[8] | ||||
| Air Germanica | 1995 | 1996 | Arcus-Air Logistics charter operations branch. Never operational | |||||
| Air Lipsia | W2 | 2010 | ||||||
| Air Lloyd | 1961 | 1964 | Formed by the merger of Deutsche Nahluftverkehr and Deutsche Taxiflug[9] | |||||
| Air Omega | OE | AOW | 2002 | 2004 | ||||
| Air Service Wildgruber | 2003 | 2009 | [10] | |||||
| Air Traffic | 1980s | 1980s | Operated leased Swearingen Metroliners | |||||
| All-Air | DZ | 1966 | 1968 | Operated Douglas DC-4[11] Assets sold to Transportflug | ||||
| Amadeus | B5 | 1996 | 2004 | |||||
| Antares Airtransport | ANM | ANTARES | 2001 | 2005 | Operated Let Turbolet | |||
| Aquair Luftfahrt | 1982 | 1984 | Operated Beechcraft 90 “King Air” | |||||
| Arcus-Air Luftfahrtunternehmen | 1980 | 1997 | Previously Arcus-Air Logistics. Operated Dornier 228, Dornier 328. Transferred scheduled operations to Cosmos Air | |||||
| Atlantis | NO | NOU | ATLANTIS | 1968 | 1972 | Previously Nordseeflug Sylter Lufttransport | ||
| Augsburg Airways | IQ | AUB | AUGSBURG-AIR | 1996 | 2013 | Previously Interot Airways | ||
| Augusta Air | AUF | AUGUSTA | 1985 | 2014 | Operated Cessna 560XL | |||
| Aviaction | HC | AVIACTION | 1971 | 1973 | Operated Fokker F28 | |||
| Azur Air | UR | ARZ | BLUE EAGLE | 2017 | 2018 | |||
| B | ||||||||
| Baden Air | 1998 | 2000 | Merged into Cirrus Airlines | |||||
| Badische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft | 1923 | 1926 | ||||||
| Bavaria Fluggesellschaft | BV | BAVARIA | 1957 | 1977 | Merged to form Bavaria Germanair | |||
| Bavaria Germanair | BV | BAVARIA | 1977 | 1979 | Merged into Hapag-Lloyd Flug | |||
| Bayerische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft | 1925 | 1928 | ||||||
| Bayerische Flugdienst (BFD) | BT | 1954 | 1975 | Operated Cessna 402 and DHC 6 | ||||
| Berlin Regional UK | 1987 | 1990 | Renamed Berlin European UK in 1988. Merged into Germania in 1991 | |||||
| Berline | BZ | TBL | BEROLINER | 1991 | 1994 | Previously Il 18 Air Cargo | ||
| Berliner Spezialflug (BSF) | 1991 | 1996 | [12] Merged into Thuringia Airways | |||||
| Blue Wings | QW | BWG | BLUE WINGS | 2003 | 2010 | |||
| Bremenfly | 8B | BFY | BORGWARDT | 2009 | 2010 | |||
| Britannia Airways Germany | BN | DBY | 1997 | 2001 | ||||
| C | ||||||||
| Calair | DZ | CALAIR | 1970 | 1972 | ||||
| CargoLogic Germany | GCL | SAXONIA | 2019 | 2022 | ||||
| Cimber Air | EG;GW | 1953 | 1992 | Cimber Air of Denmark subsidiary | ||||
| Cirrus Airlines | C9 | RUS | CIRRUS | 1995 | 2012 | |||
| City-Air | 6E | CIP | CITYWAYS | 1971 | 2004 | Previously Teuto Airways and TAG City-Air | ||
| Cologne Air Transport | 1991 | 1996 | Operated Dornier 228 | |||||
| Condor Berlin | DE | CIB | 1998 | 2013 | Merged into Condor of which it was a subsidiary | |||
| Condor Luftreederei | 1958 | 1961 | Merged operations into Deutsche Flugdienst | |||||
| Condor-Flugdienst GmbH | 1961 | 2013 | Previously Deutsche Flugdienst. Merged into Condor | |||||
| Condor Syndikat | 1924 | 1927 | ||||||
| Contact Air | C3 | KIS | CONTACT AIR | 1974 | 2013 | Merged assets and some operations into OLT Express Germany | ||
| Conti-Flug | 1992 | 1994 | Previously European Private Charter. Operated BAe.146 | |||||
| Continentale Deutsche Luftreederei | 1959 | 1962 | ||||||
| Cosmos Air | ZE | AZE | 1997 | 1999 | Merged operations into Cirrus Airlines | |||
| D | ||||||||
| Danziger Luftpost | 1921 | 1923 | ||||||
| Dauair | D5 | DAU | DAUAIR | 2005 | 2006 | |||
| Debonair Deutscheland | 1996 | 1999 | British Debonair German branch. Operated leased aircraft | |||||
| DELAG | 1910 | 1935 | ||||||
| Delta Air Regionalflugverkehr | 1978 | 1992 | Merged into Deutsche BA | |||||
| Deruluft | 1921 | 1937 | Joint German-Soviet airline | |||||
| Deutsche Aero Lloyd | 1923 | 1926 | Merged with Junkers Luftverkehr to form Deutsche Luft Hansa | |||||
| Deutsche BA | 1992 | 2008 | Rebranded flydba.com 2002-2003 and dba 2003-2008. Air Berlin subsidiary 2006-2008 | |||||
| Deutsche Flugdienst | 1956 | 1961 | Renamed Condor-Flugdienst | |||||
| Deutsche Ferienflugdienst (DFD) | 1989 | 1982 | Condor brand | |||||
| Deutsche Luft Hansa | 1926 | 1945 | ||||||
| Deutsche Luft-Reederei | 1917 | 1923 | Rebranded as Deutsche Aero Lloyd | |||||
| Deutsche Lufthansa | 1955 | 1963 | Staff, fleet and route network transferred to Interflug | |||||
| Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei | 1935 | 1939 | Successor to DELAG. Reformed in 2001. | |||||
| DLR Flugbetriebe | GPL | 1967 | ||||||
| DLT-Deutsche Luftverkehrs GmbH | DW | DLT | 1974 | 1992 | Merged into Lufthansa CityLine | |||
| E | ||||||||
| EastWest Airlines | 5D | EWT | E-WEST | 1994 | 1995 | |||
| Elbe Air | LBR | MOTION | 1995 | 2008 | ||||
| Elbeflug | 1970 | 1971 | Never operational[13] | |||||
| Euro City Line | 1995 | 1997 | ||||||
| EuroBerlin | EE | EEB | EUROBER | 1988 | 1994 | Franco-German joint airline registered in France. Go to Euroberlin France | ||
| Euro-hopper.com | 2003 | 2003 | Renamed/merged to Denim Airways | |||||
| Europa-Union | 1926 | Did not start[14] | ||||||
| European Air Express | EA | EAL | STAR WING | 1999 | 2007 | |||
| EuroCity Line | 1998 | 1998 | ||||||
| Eurowings Discover | 2021 | 2023 | Renamed Discover Airlines | |||||
| Eurowings Flug | 1997 | 2002 | Eurowings sister airline | |||||
| Excellent Air | GZA | 1969 | 2007 | |||||
| Express Airways | 1999 | 2003 | Traded as Farnair Germany. Farnair Europe Aviation Group subsidiary from February 1999 | |||||
| Express Flug Service | 1973 | 1976 | ||||||
| F | ||||||||
| Filder Air Service | 1999 | 2000 | Merged into European Air Express | |||||
| Flight Travel Service (FTS) | 1980 | 1990 | Operated schedules with Cessna 404, Cessna 441, Swearingen Metroliner on behalf of City-Flug and Paderborn Airport Co. | |||||
| FLM Aviation | FKI | KIEL AIR | 1973 | 2013 | ||||
| FTI Flugggesellschaft/Fly FTI | BZ | FTI | FROG-LINE | 1999 | 2001 | |||
| Flynext | 2011 | 2013 | Operated leased Airbus A319 as Germania Express 2012-2013 | |||||
| G | ||||||||
| General Air + General Air Nord + General Air Luftverkehrs | GQ | GENERAL AIR | 1962 | 1976 | ||||
| German Airways | HE | LGW | WALTER | 2019 | 2020 | Trading name of Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter and WDL Flugdienst leasing operations. Operated European routes on behalf of Eurowings | ||
| German Cargo Services | FX | GEC | 1977 | 1995 | Merged into Lufthansa Cargo | |||
| German Sky Airlines | GHY | GERMAN SKY | 20010 | 2012 | Sky Airlines subsidiary | |||
| German Wings | PW | KFK | GERMAN WINGS | 1989 | 1990 | |||
| Germanair GmbH | DV | GERMANAIR | 1968 | 1977 | Previously Südwestflug. Merged to form Bavaria Germanair | |||
| Germania/Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH | ST | GMI | GERMANIA | 1986 | 2019 | |||
| Germania Express | L3 | GMQ | CORGI | 2003 | 2005 | Germania subsidiary. Merged operations into Deutsche BA | ||
| Germanwings | 4U | GWI | GERMANWINGS | 2002 | 2020 | Merged into Eurowings | ||
| Green Airlines | 2020 | 2022 | ||||||
| H | ||||||||
| HADAG Air | GP | 1974 | 1983 | Renamed Holiday Express | ||||
| Hamburg Airlines | HX | HAS | HAMBURG AIR | 1988 | 1997 | Reformed in 1993 | ||
| Hamburg Airways | HK | HAY | HAMBURG AIRWAYS | 2011 | 2014 | |||
| Hamburg International | 4R | HHI | HAMBURG JET | 1999 | 2010 | |||
| Hanseflug | HFL | HANSEFLUG | 1992 | 2013 | ||||
| Hapag-Lloyd Express | X3 | HLX | YELLOW CAB | 2002 | 2010 | Merged into TUIfly | ||
| Hapag-Lloyd Flug | HF | HLF | HAPAG LLOYD | 1973 | 2010 | Branded Hapagfly 2005-2010. Merged into TUIfly | ||
| K.G. Hellinger GmbH & Co. | 1955 | 1985 | Operated local routes as Westküstenflug with Cessna 172, Partenavia P.68, Piper PA-23 | |||||
| Holiday Express | HL (HX) | HLE | HOLIDAY EXPRESS | 1983 | 1988 | Previously HADAG Air. Traded as Hanse Express 1986-1988[15] | ||
| Hössl & Winkler Fluggesellschaft | 1976 | 1982 | Operated local routes with Cessna 404, Cessna 441, Swearingen Metroliner branded HW Air | |||||
| I | ||||||||
| Interflug | IF | IFL | INTERFLUG | 1959 | 1991 | Inherited assets of Deutsche Lufthansa in 1963. | ||
| Interot Airways | 1981 | 1996 | Previously Interot Air Service. Renamed Augsburg Airways | |||||
| Interregional (IFG) | IP | 1968 | 1974 | |||||
| J | ||||||||
| Jetair | JA | JETAIR | 1984 | 1985 | ||||
| Jetisfaction | 2011 | 2012 | ||||||
| Junkers Luftverkehr | 1924 | 1926 | Merged with Deutsche Aero Lloyd to form Deutsche Luft Hansa | |||||
| K | ||||||||
| KHD-Karl Herfurtner Düsseldorf | 1956 | 1957 | Charter airline which operated Douglas DC 4, Vickers “Viking” | |||||
| L | ||||||||
| Lloyd-Luftdienst | ||||||||
| Louisair | 2020s | 2020s | [16] | |||||
| LowFare Jet | 2002 | 2003 | ||||||
| LTU International/Lufttransport Unternehmen | LT | LTU | LTU | 1955 | 2011 | Previously Lufttransport Union. Merged into Air Berlin | ||
| LTU-Süd International Airways | LU | LTS | 1987 | 1997 | Previously LTS-Lufttransport-Süd. Merged into LTU International | |||
| Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (LGW) | HE | LGW | WALTER | 1980 | 2020 | |||
| Lufthansa CityLine | CL | CLH | HANSALINE | 1992 | 2026 | Previously DLT. Integrated into Lufthansa | ||
| Luftverkehr Friesland-Harle (LFH) | 1983 | 2014 | Merged into FLN Frisia Luftverkehr | |||||
| Luftverkher Wilhelmshaven-Friesland (Erich Passon) | 1956 | 1983 | Operated local routes with BN.2, Cessna 402, Cessna 310, Cessna 206 in early 1980s | |||||
| M | ||||||||
| Merkur Luft/Luftmerkur Bedarsflug | 1972 | 1973 | Operated local routes with DH.114 Heron | |||||
| N | ||||||||
| Naske Air | 1992 | 2000 | Previously Braunschweig-Flug. Operated local routes with Swearingen Metroliner | |||||
| Nürnberger Flugdienst (NFD) | NS | NFD | FLAMINGO | 1975 | 1992 | Merged to form Eurowings | ||
| Nightexpress | EXT | EXECUTIVE | 1984 | 2017 | ||||
| Nora Air Services | 1970 | 1972 | Never operational | |||||
| Nord-Europa-Union | 1923 | 1926 | Merged into Europa Union[14] | |||||
| Nordseeflug Sylter Lufttransport | 1966 | 1968 | Operated Douglas DC 3 and Douglas DC 7. Renamed Atlantis | |||||
| O | ||||||||
| Oberschlesische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft | 1925 | 1937 | ||||||
| (1st) OFD Ostfriesischer-Flug-Dienst | 1959 | 1974 | Assets split between DLT Luftverkehrs GmbH, and OLT-Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT Express Germany) | |||||
| (2nd) OFD-Ostfriesischer-Flug-Dienst | 2011 | 2013 | ||||||
| OLT Express Germany | OL | OLT | OLTRA | 2011 | 2013 | Previously OLT-Ostfriesische Lufttransport (1974) | ||
| OLT Express Regional | 2011 | 2012 | Pooled with OLT Express Germany | |||||
| P | ||||||||
| Paninternational | DR | DELTA ROMEO | 1969 | 1971 | Previously Panair | |||
| Pleuger Flugdienst | 1976 | 1978 | Operated local routes with Piper PA-31 | |||||
| PrivatAir GmbH | PTG | 2003 | 2018 | PrivatAir subsidiary | ||||
| R | ||||||||
| Ratioflug | RAT | BATMAN | 1982 | 1998 | ||||
| Regional Air Express | REW | REGIONAL WINGS | 2004 | 2010 | ||||
| RFG Regionalflug | VG | RFG | RFG | 1976 | 1992 | Merged to form Eurowings | ||
| Rhein-Neckar Air | 2014 | 2024 | ||||||
| Rheingau Air Service | KG | 1974 | 1983 (or 1979) | |||||
| Rheinland Air Service | RW | RLD | 1973 | 2002 | [17] Renamed RAS Fluggesellschaft | |||
| Roland Air | 1980 | 1990 | Operated BN.2, BN.2 Mk.III, Cessna “Skyhawk”, Swearingen Metroliner. Merged operations into OLT-Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT Express Germany) | |||||
| S | ||||||||
| Saarland Airlines | QW | SLL | AARLAND | 1992 | 1993 | |||
| Sächsische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft | 1924 | 1926 | ||||||
| Saxonia Airlines (SAL) | 1991 | 1996 | Merged into Thuringia Airlines | |||||
| Senator Aviation Charter | 1985 | ? | [18] | |||||
| Special Air Transport/SAT Flug (SAT) | JO | DST | 1978 | 1986 | Merged operations into Germania | |||
| Schlesische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft | ||||||||
| SkyTeam Luftfahrtunternehmen | 1998 | 2002 | ||||||
| Small Planet Airlines GmbH | 5P | LLX | GERMANJET | 2015 | 2018 | Lithuanian Small Planet Airlines subsidiary | ||
| Star XL German Airlines | GXL | 2006 | 2006 | Renamed XL Airways Germany | ||||
| Stuttgarter Flugdienst | FFD | FIRST FLIGHT | 1959 | 2019 | [19] | |||
| Südavia | FV | VXY | SUDAVIA | 1984 | 1990 | |||
| Südflug-Süddeutsche Fluggesellschaft | SZ | SUEDFLUG | 1955 | 1969 | Bought by Lufthansa and merged into Condor | |||
| Südwestflug | 1965 | 1968 | Renamed Germanair | |||||
| SunExpress Deutschland | XG | SXD | SUNRISE | 2011 | 2020 | |||
| T | ||||||||
| Tel Aviv Air | U8 | CYF | TUS AIR | 2021 | 2022 | |||
| Tempelhof Express Airlines | FC | SBY | 1998 | 2001 | Previously Thuringia Airways. Merged into OLT-Ostfriesische Lufttransport (OLT Express Germany) | |||
| Thomas Cook Aviation | H3 | TCN | 2018 | 2020 | Previously Air Berlin Aviation | |||
| Thuringia Airlines (TAL) | FC | SBY | 1996 | 1998 | Renamed Tempelhof Express Airlines | |||
| Trans-Avia Flug | TAD | 1957 | 1959 | Operated Douglas DC 4, Vickers Viking | ||||
| TransAer Cologne | 1999 | 2000 | Translift Airways (IRELAND) subsidiary | |||||
| Trans-Europa-Union | 1923 | 1926 | Merged to form Europa Union[14] | |||||
| Transportflug | 1965 | 1970 | Renamed Calair | |||||
| Triple Alpha Luftfahrtgesellschaft | 1995 | 2011 | ||||||
| V | ||||||||
| Vibro Air Flugservice | VIB | 1994 | 2013 | |||||
| W | ||||||||
| WDL Aviation (Koln) | 1991 | Renamed German Airways | ||||||
| WDL Flugdienst | WE | 1955 | 1991 | Operations transferred to WDL Aviation (Koln). Renamed WDL Luftschiff | ||||
| Westflug | WFA | |||||||
| Wirtschaftsflug | WS | 1979 | 1982 | |||||
| X | ||||||||
| XL Airways Germany | X4 | GXL | STARDUST | 2006 | 2012 | Previously Star XL German Airlines | ||
| Y | ||||||||
| Yourways | PWY | 2017 | 2019 | [20] | ||||
See also
[edit]References
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- ↑ "Start für 2024 geplant: Louisair will Air-Berlin-Lücke füllen". www.fvw.de (in German). Retrieved 2026-05-18.
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