HLX.com

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</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Hubs</th><td>Cologne/Bonn, Hannover, Stuttgart, Leipzig/Halle</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Alliance</th><td>TUIfly Alliance</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Parent company</th><td>TUI AG</td></tr>

HLX.com
IATA X3	ICAO HLX	Callsign Excellence
Founded		2002
Fleet size		17
Destinations		36
Headquarters		Langenhagen, Germany
Key people		Roland Keppler
Website: http://www.hlx.com/

Image:Boeing 737 hlx D-AGER.jpg

HLX.com (formerly Hapag-Lloyd Express) is a no-frills, high-frequency, express airline based in Hannover, Germany. It operates services within Germany and to destinations in Europe.

1 History
2 Services
3 Fleet
4 Livery
5 External links
6 References

[edit] History

Hapag-Lloyd Express was established in 2002 and began operations in December 2002. Its main competitors are more established no-frills carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet, as well as other recent low-cost startups such as Germanwings and Basiq Air. It is constantly engaged in a price war with these carriers. In an attempt to win this price war, it expanded rapidly in the first half of 2004, announcing many new routes that it viewed as underserved by other airlines. Examples of such routes include Dublin to Hamburg and Stuttgart, both of which are no longer in operation.

[edit] Services

HLX.com operates the following services (as of July 2006):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich, Sylt, Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main.

International scheduled destinations: Bari, Bilbao, Birmingham, Cagliari, Catania, Dubrovnik, Genoa, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Naples, Nador, Newcastle, Olbia, Oporto, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Pisa, Rijeka, Rimini, Rome, Salzburg, Stockholm, Valencia, Venice and Thessaloniki.

[edit] Fleet

The Hapag-Lloyd Express fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2006) <ref>Flight International, 3-9 October 2006</ref>:

5 Boeing 737-500
3 Boeing 737-800

TUI AG will lease 2 new Boeing 737-700 from ILFC for 6 years. These new aircraft will be delivered to Hapag Lloyd Express or Hapagfly in March and April 2007.

[edit] Livery

HLX.com aircraft are highly recognisable due to their distinctive "New York taxi" style: a checkered black and white line wrapped around a yellow body, aiming to convey the image of quick and cheap point-to-point service.

The majority of the fleet (wet-lease) is operated by Germania (Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH (ST/GMI)).

[edit] External links

[edit] References

European Low Fares Airline Association (ELFAA)
Air Berlin • easyjet • Flybe • Hapag Lloyd Express • Norwegian Air Shuttle • Ryanair • SkyEurope • Sterling Airlines • Sverige Flyg • transavia.com • Volare Airlines • Wizz Air