HLX.com

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HLX.com (formerly Hapag-Lloyd Express) is a no-frills, high-frequency, express airline based in Hanover, Germany.It's a subsidiary of TUIfly, a part of TUI AG. TUIfly groups Arkefly (Holland), Jetairfly (Belgium), Hapagfly and HLX.com (Germany), Thomsonfly (United Kingdom), Britanniafly (Sweden), and Corsairfly (France) with a fleet of more than hundred aircraft.

HLX operates services within Germany and to destinations in Europe. Its main base is Cologne Bonn Airport, with another hub at Stuttgart Airport.

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

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Code Data

IATA Code: X3
ICAO Code: HLX
Callsign: Excellence

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History

Hapag-Lloyd Express was established in 2002 and started operations in December 2002. Its main competitors are more established no-frills carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet, as well as the other recent low-cost startups such as Germanwings and BasiqAir. It is currently 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, including routes from Dublin to Hamburg and Stuttgart. It is a subsidiary of TUI AG, which also includes the Hapag-Lloyd cargo container line and cruise line, and the charter airline, Hapagfly. In November 2005 it's rebranded as 'HLX.com' due to the new marketingstrategy of the TUIfly alliance. Image:Boeing 737 hlx D-AGER.jpg

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Services

HLX.com operates the following services (at January 2006):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart.

International scheduled destinations: Bari, Bilbao, Catania, Coventry, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Florence, Genoa, Klagenfurt, Manchester, Marseille, Milan, Naples, Newcastle, Olbia, Oporto, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Pisa, Rijeka, Rimini, Rome, Salzburg, Stockholm, Valencia and Venice.

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Fleet

The Hapag-Lloyd Express fleet consists of the following aircraft (at April 2006):

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Livery

Hapag-Lloyd Express aeroplanes are highly recognisable with a distinctive taxi-style look -- a chequered black and white line wrapped around a yellow body, aiming to convey the image of quick, cheap point-to-point service.

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

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