Hapagfly

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<tr><td colspan="3" style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFFFFF;">Image:Hapagfly logo.png</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Hubs</th><td>Hanover/Langenhagen International Airport

Frankfurt Airport

Düsseldorf International Airport</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Alliance</th><td>TUIfly Alliance</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Parent company</th><td>TUIfly (TUI Group)</td></tr>

Hapagfly
IATA HF	ICAO HLF	Callsign Hapag Lloyd
Founded		1972
Fleet size		34
Destinations		44
Headquarters		Langenhagen, Germany
Key people		Christoph R. Müller
Website: http://www.hapagfly.com

Hapagfly (former name: Hapag-Lloyd Flug) is an airline based in Hanover, Germany. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights, mainly to holiday resorts in Europe.

1 History
2 Incidents and accidents
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 External links
6 References

[edit] History

The original HAPAG company first became involved in the aviation industry in 1910, sponsoring Zeppelin flights.

Hapag-Lloyd Flug was established in July 1972 when the Hapag-Lloyd shipping group bought a few Boeing 727s to fly its cruise passengers from Germany to the ports of call for the cruises. It began operations on 30 March 1973. Through the years, the airline added regular passenger flights to its schedule, as well as new airplanes, such as the Boeing 737 and Airbus aircraft. Since 1997 it has been a subsidiary of TUI AG, which also includes the Hapag-Lloyd cargo container line and cruise line.

In November 2005 the airline changed its name to Hapagfly due to the new marketing strategy of the TUI Group.

[edit] Incidents and accidents

July 12, 2000: Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378, an Airbus A310 flying from Khania to Hannover, was involved in a highly publicized incident, after suffering fuel starvation caused in part by a faulty landing gear. All 150 people aboard survived the crash landing in Vienna. Image:Hapagfly A310 D-AHLA STR.jpg

[edit] Services

Hapagfly operates services to the following international scheduled destinations (as of November 2006): Agadir, Antalya, Basel/Mulhouse, Cairo, Catania, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luxor, Marsa Alam, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Tenerife and Thessaloniki.

Hapagfly has announced its new winter programme including some new routes:

Dusseldorf-Izmir: weekly B737-800 service starting on November 7
Frankfurt-Izmir: 2x weekly B737-800 service starting on November 3
Munich-Ovda: weekly B737-800 service starting on November 2
Stuttgart-Cairo: weekly B737-800 service starting on November 7
Stuttgart-Tel Aviv Ben Gurion: weekly B737-800 service starting on November 7

[edit] Fleet

Image:Hapag Lloyd B738 D-ATUD.jpg The Hapagfly fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2006) <ref>Flight International, 3-9 October 2006</ref>:

As of July 2006, the average age of Hapagfly aircraft is 5.8 years.