SunExpress Deutschland

This article is about the defunct German leisure airline. For its Turkish parent company, see SunExpress.
SunExpress Deutschland
IATA ICAO Callsign
XG SXD SUNRISE
Founded2010
Commenced operations2011
Ceased operations2020
Operating basesFrankfurt Airport
Focus cities
Frequent-flyer programSunPoints
Fleet size20
Destinations48
Parent companySunExpress
HeadquartersFrankfurt, Germany
Websitesunexpress.com

SunExpress Deutschland GmbH was a German leisure airline headquartered in Gateway Gardens, Flughafen, Frankfurt.[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[edit]

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.[2]

On 23 June 2020 SunExpress announced SunExpress Deutschland would cease operations in 2020 and orderly be liquidated.[3] Its route network would partially be taken over by SunExpress and Eurowings.[4][5]

Destinations[edit]

Operated as SunExpress Deutschland[edit]

As of February 2018, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following routes:[6]

Bulgaria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Egypt
Germany
Greece
Italy
Lebanon
Morocco

Norway

Spain
Turkey

Operated for Eurowings[edit]

As of July 2017, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following long-haul routes for Eurowings:[2]

Barbados
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Germany
Jamaica
Mauritius
Mexico
Namibia
Thailand
United States of America

Fleet[edit]

SunExpress Deutschland Boeing 737-800

As of January 2020, the SunExpress Deutschland fleet consisted of 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

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Imprint". SunExpress. Retrieved 2019-07-15. SunExpress Gateway Gardens De-Saint-Exupéry-Straße 10 D-60549 Frankfurt am Main
  2. ^ a b Germany, COMKOM° GmbH. "Neue Eurowings geht an den Start – Ticketverkauf für Flüge ab Oktober - Meldungen - Lufthansa Group". www.lufthansagroup.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  3. ^ "SunExpress Deutschland - Out of Business". Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  4. ^ New strategic positioning for SunExpress: Clear focus on tourism in Turkey SunExpress 23 June 2020
  5. ^ SunExpress Closes German Arm Airliner World September 2020 page 8
  6. ^ "Destination map". sunexpress.com. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  7. ^ a b c d Ltd. 2019, UBM (UK). "Lufthansa outlines SunExpress Germany 737 operation in 4Q17". Routesonline. Retrieved 2019-02-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Ruane, Laura (7 July 2017). "RSW airport to gain nonstop flights to German cities of Munich, Cologne in May 2018". www.news-press.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  9. ^ aero.de - "Eurowings cancels Dubai and ends Boston earlier" (German) 15 August 2016
  10. ^ planespotters.net - SunExpress Germany Fleet Details retrieved 12 January 2020
  11. ^ Germany, COMKOM° GmbH. "Eurowings - Themen - Lufthansa Group". www.lufthansagroup.com. Archived from the original on 28 August 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2017.

External links[edit]

Media related to SunExpress Deutschland at Wikimedia Commons

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