Condor Airlines

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Condor Flugdienst is an airline based in Germany. It is Germany's largest holiday airline, operating services to the Mediterranean, Asia, Africa, North America and the Caribbean. Its main base is Frankfurt International Airport, with a hub at Munich International Airport.

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

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Code Data

IATA Code: DE
ICAO Code: CFG
Callsign: Condor

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History

The airline was established on 21 December 1955, as Deutsche Flugdienst GmbH, and started operations on 28 March 1956. A slump in the charter market in early 1960 led to its takeover by Lufthansa and the change of name to Condor Flugdienst on 25 October 1961. By the 1990s, it was a major player in the charter airline world, flying to many exotic destinations and some major cities worldwide. It was amalgamated with Südflug in August 1992.

C&N Touristic, the parent company of Condor, was renamed Thomas Cook following C&N's acquisition of the UK tour group. In March 2003 the airline was rebranded Thomas Cook - Powered by Condor as part of the group's rebranding. Condor Berlin was absorbed into Thomas Cook during the rebranding in March 2003. However, the branding was reversed in May 2004 and a new CEO decided to use the old and very traditional name Condor again.

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Services

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Condor Flugdienst operates the following services (at January 2005):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Paderborn and Stuttgart.

International scheduled destinations: Agadir, Almería, Anchorage, Antalya, Bangkok, Banjul, Barbados, Cancún, Cayo Coco, Colombo, Dakar, Djerba, Fairbanks, Faro, Fort Myers, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Goa, Grenada, Havana, Holguín, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Kilimanjaro, La Romana, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Mahé, Málaga, Malé, Malta, Mauritius, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Orlando, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Phuket, Porlamar, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Sal, San José, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharjah, Sharm el-Sheikh, St Lucia, Tenerife, Tobago, Valencia and Varadero.

new destinations for 2006: samana bay( dominican republic) [starts november 6]

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Fleet

Image:Condor Airbus D-AICB.jpg The Condor Flugdienst fleet consists of the following aircraft (at January 2006):

In March 2006, Condor fleet age is 8.4 years old.

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Livery

Condor's livery reflected that of Lufthansa during the 1990s, with an all white fuselage airplane, the letters Condor written in black on top of the front windows, and an all yellow tail with Condor's logo of a blue bird inside a blue circle, very similar to Lufthansa's 1970s logo.

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