Germania (airline)
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A Fokker 100 airplane of Germania at Munich Airport |
Germania (Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH) is an
airline based in
Berlin,
Germany. It is a major charter airline to destinations in
Europe and
North Africa. It also operates some flights for
LTU International charter programmes.
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IATA Code:
ST*
ICAO Code:
GMI*Callsign: Germania
Germania was founded in April
1978 as SAT in
Cologne and started operations in September 1978. It was renamed Germania in June
1986. In
1992 the head office was relocated to
Berlin-Tegel. In the same year, Germania was assigned by the German government the flight connections from the old capital of Germany,
Bonn, to the new one,
Berlin. This was called "Beamten-Shuttle", which is German and means "functionary shuttle". The airline's main business is the charter business: Germania flies, amongst others, for the German travel concern
TUI and the German airline
Hapag-Lloyd Express.
In
1998, the airline was pioneer in Germany in using airplanes for advertising. From
2003 to March
2005, Germania was acting in the
low-cost airline business with its wholly owned affiliate "gexx" (
Germania Express), until its operations were absorbed into
Dba.
Germania operates charter services from
Berlin,
Cologne,
Düsseldorf and other regional airports to the
Canary Islands,
Egypt,
Israel,
Madeira, the
Mediterranean,
North Africa and
Georgia (at January 2005).
The Germania fleet consists of 1
Boeing 737-300 aircraft (at November 2005). It previously operated a further 14 Boeing 737-300 and 14
Boeing 737-700 aircraft. All of these aircraft have been disposed of.
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Germania*
Germania Fleet
