Hapagfly
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Hapagfly (former name: Hapag-Lloyd Flug) is an airline based in Hanover, Germany. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights, mainly to holiday resorts in Europe.
Hapagfly is a part of the largest leisure fleet in Europe: together with six other airlines which are linked together by the family brand TUIfly, which is a part of the TUI Group, the largest tourism group in Europe. TUIfly groups Arkefly (Holland), Jetairfly (Belgium), HLX.com (Germany), Britanniafly (Sweden), Corsairfly (France) and Thomsonfly (United Kingdom) with a fleet of more than hundred aircraft.
Its main base is Hanover/Langenhagen International Airport, with hubs at Nuremberg Airport and Stuttgart Airport.
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History
Image:Hapagfly A310 D-AHLA STR.jpg The original HAPAG company first became involved in the aviation industry in 1910, sponsoring Zeppelin flights.
Hapag-Lloyd Flug was established in July 1972 when the Hapag-Lloyd shipping group bought a few Boeing 727s to fly its cruise passengers from Germany to the cruises' ports of call. It started operations on 30 March 1973. Through the years, the airline has added some regular passenger flights to its schedule, as well as new airplanes, such as the Boeing 737 and Airbus aircraft. Since 1997 it has been a subsidiary of TUI AG, which also includes the Hapag-Lloyd cargo container line and cruise line.
In 2002 the airline was joined by a sister, Hapag-Lloyd Express, a low-fare, high-frequency airline.
In November 2005 the name Hapag-Lloyd Flug was changed to Hapagfly, due to the new marketing strategy of the TUI Group that wants to regroup all its airline activities under the same alliance: TUIfly. As a result all the airlines under TUIfly were rebranded with the name best known in their local market or the name of the principal tour operator for which they operated flights. All the airlines, with the exception of HLX.com, acquired the suffix "-fly" and had their aircraft repainted in the light blue TUI colours with red TUI logo.
Services
Hapagfly operates services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Agadir, Alicante, Almería, Antalya, Basel/Mulhouse, Cairo, Catania, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luxor, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife and Thessaloniki.
Fleet
The Hapag-Lloyd fleet consists of the following aircraft (at April 2006):
- 1 Airbus A300
- 1 Airbus A310
- 33 Boeing 737-800
In March 2006, Hapagfly fleet age is 6.5 years old.
- Hapagfly intends to become an all Boeing operator by the end of the second quarter of 2006.
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