SunExpress Deutschland explained
| Airline: | SunExpress Deutschland |
| Iata: | XG |
| Icao: | SXD |
| Callsign: | SUNRISE |
| Frequent Flyer: | SunPoints |
| Fleet Size: | 20 |
| Destinations: | 48 |
| Parent: | SunExpress |
| Headquarters: | Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany |
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]
- Bulgaria
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Egypt
- Germany
- Greece
- Italy
- Lebanon
- Morocco
Norway
- Spain
- Turkey
Operated for Eurowings
As of July 2017, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following long-haul routes for Eurowings:[7]
- Barbados
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Germany
- Jamaica
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Namibia
- Thailand
- United States of America
Fleet
As of January 2020, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following aircraft:[10]
SunExpress Deutschland Fleet| Aircraft | In Service | Passengers | Notes |
|---|
| C | Y | Total |
|---|
| Airbus A330-200 | 7 | 21 | 289 | 310 | Operated for Eurowings[11] |
| Boeing 737-800 | 13 | - | 189 | 189 | D-ASXB in Eintracht Frankfurt special livery. |
| Total | 20 | | |
|---|
Notes and References
- Web site: Imprint. SunExpress. 2019-07-15. SunExpress Gateway Gardens De-Saint-Exupéry-Straße 10 D-60549 Frankfurt am Main.
- News: SunExpress Deutschland - Out of Business . 2020-08-06.
- https://www.sunexpress.com/en/company/media-center/press-releases/new-strategic-positioning-for-sunexpress New strategic positioning for SunExpress: Clear focus on tourism in Turkey
- SunExpress Closes German Arm Airliner World September 2020 page 8
- Web site: Destination map. sunexpress.com. 6 July 2017.
- Web site: Lufthansa outlines SunExpress Germany 737 operation in 4Q17. Ltd. 2019. UBM (UK). Routesonline. en-GB. 2019-02-18.
- Web site: Neue Eurowings geht an den Start – Ticketverkauf für Flüge ab Oktober - Meldungen - Lufthansa Group. COMKOM° GmbH. Germany. www.lufthansagroup.com. 4 May 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402182303/http://www.lufthansagroup.com/de/presse/meldungen/view/archive/2015/march/04/article/3449.html. 2 April 2015.
- Web site: Ruane, Laura. RSW airport to gain nonstop flights to German cities of Munich, Cologne in May 2018. www.news-press.com. 7 July 2017. 7 July 2017.
- http://www.aero.de/news-24769/Eurowings-streicht-Dubai-und-Boston.html aero.de - "Eurowings cancels Dubai and ends Boston earlier"
- https://www.planespotters.net/airline/SunExpress-Germany planespotters.net - SunExpress Germany Fleet Details
- Web site: Eurowings - Themen - Lufthansa Group. COMKOM° GmbH. Germany. www.lufthansagroup.com. 4 May 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150828161355/http://www.lufthansagroup.com/en/themen/eurowings.html. 28 August 2015.
