So Euro wings to the cheap airline was

Today, the Euro is wings of cheap offshoot of Lufthansa. At the time of their birth at the beginning of the 1990s, you had a very different business model.

It is not an easy environment in which Euro wings moved. The low-cost subsidiary of Lufthansa, has to assert itself in the fiercely competitive European Low-cost market and sector sizes, such as Ryanair, Easyjet and Wizz Air offer the forehead. In addition, they tried with cheap long-distance connections. With moderate success. Now Eurowings bases need to close, and in the future, back to Europe routes.

Once the Euro was moving wings, however, in very different climes. The airline was formed over 26 years ago as a merger of two smaller Airlines. Years before it was gradually to Lufthansa's cheap brand, it was only as a small regional airline on the go. They flew some of them for the competition of today's mother.

Small and small equal to the greater of

At the beginning of the Euro wings’ story of the bankruptcy of a British Charter airline in the early 1990s. The former Air Europe in 1991 went bankrupt. They held almost half of the shares of Nürnberger flugdienst NFD. After the regional company had bought back its shares from the bankrupt owners, merged in 1993 with the smaller Dortmund travel and industrial flight RFG and went with her finally, in the eurowings of air traffic.

Behind NFD, the well-known German entrepreneur Hans Rudolf Wöhrl who sold a Short time after the establishment of its shares to the young eurowings put. In the first years of the Euro wings almost all of the shares of the Airline were thus in the possession of the RFG-founder Albrecht Knauff, who also owned a large steel and aluminum companies.

Flights for KLM and Air France

On 1. In January 1994, the enlarged company took on their flights. In your local network you set up for the time being, Turboprop-aircraft of type ATR 42 and 72 from the stocks of its predecessor airlines, before they took to gain even jet-powered aircraft in the fleet. First, the Euro bought wings, six British Aerospace BAE 146, the mid-1990s as a relatively quiet were and well with shorter runways to deal with. A little later, already larger flew with the Airbus A319 Short - and medium-haul aircraft in the then-white-and-grey-colors of the Airline.

Euro wings is not built, however, only fleet and route network quickly. The airline has also formed partnerships with Other Airlines, and flew, among others, as a feeder for KLM or Air France. In the year 2001, Lufthansa took interest and took over a quarter of the shares. Two years later, the German airline increased its stake to 49 percent.

Eurowings has a blue-and-yellow

Towards the end of 2005, the co-founder of knob and Lufthansa agreed, that Eurowings is to be under full control of the largest German airline. Henceforth, only booking, and Marketing were not on Lufthansa. The eurowings brand, disappeared more and more, since the aircraft flew in Lufthansa Regional colors. Meanwhile, came with aircraft of the Bombardier CRJ Series for more types in the fleet.

In 2011, Lufthansa Euro wings took over completely. With the low-cost subsidiary Germanwings, which has changed the regional society with the Short - and medium-haul flyers, since 2003, successfully established in the full possession of the Kranich-Airline. During Lufthansa's Germanwings expanded further to own low-cost airline, from the group company in Euro wings, and streamlined the fleet.

From the niche resurrected

While Germanwings grew up in the next few years, eked out the Euro wings a niche as a regional pilot within the Lufthansa group. This relationship changed abruptly in the year 2015. With the new Wings concept, Lufthansa wanted to change your entire cheap offer. An essential part of this reorganisation was to concentrate, in the future, the entire Low-cost appearance under the new-old brand of eurowings.

Euro wings is greater today than ever. A little more than 100 planes are in the holdings of the Airline. During the last regional pilots from the fleet type Bombardier CRJ 900 last year, are now for the most part, Airbus A319 and Airbus A320 aircraft, serving Short - and medium-haul destinations in the whole of Europe. Many of them came from the holdings of the former Air Berlin or Germanwings, which flies today, only in Wet-Lease for eurowings.

In the above image gallery, you can see the recording of the history of the Euro wings.

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