Team Lufthansa was an alliance of regional airlines from 4 countries (Germany, Denmark, Austria, and France), which flew niche routes on behalf of Lufthansa. It was replaced with Lufthansa Regional in 2003.[1]
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Founded | April 1996 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 16 October 2003 (replaced by Lufthansa Regional) | ||||||
Fleet size | Unknown | ||||||
Parent company | Lufthansa Group |
Team Lufthansa was founded in 1996 by Lufthansa in the wake of the deregulation of the airline market as new competitors like Deutsche BA challenged established airlines.[2] Besides connecting point-to-point destinations, the alliance also provided Lufthansa flights on niche routes from Frankfurt and Munich. The founding members were later expanded by the accession of Rheintalflug, Air Littoral and Cirrus Airlines.[3][4]
The alliance ceased to exist in 2003, when Lufthansa reorganized its regional network as Lufthansa Regional.[1]
Lufthansa Regional was founded as the replacement of Team Lufthansa, which consisted of predominantly independent airlines contracted by Lufthansa. As of January 2018, Lufthansa Regional consists of two members, Air Dolomiti and Lufthansa CityLine, which are both fully owned by Lufthansa. They are based at Lufthansa's hubs at Frankfurt Airport and Munich Airport and carry 10.5 million passengers a year mostly to minor domestic and European destinations.
As part of Lufthansa's new corporate design introduced in early 2018, Lufthansa Regional aircraft operated by Lufthansa CityLine are also receiving the new livery which reads "Lufthansa." "Regional" titles are being removed from the fuselages of Lufthansa Regional aircraft and replaced by "Lufthansa" titles.
As of March 2020, one sole route remained as operated by Air Dolomiti under the Lufthansa brand while all other of their operations are codeshared using their own brand name.
The member airlines of Team Lufthansa were:
Airline | Notes |
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Cimber Air | Founding member |
Augsburg Airways | Founding member;
Moved on to Lufthansa Regional |
Contact Air | |
Cirrus Airlines | |
Air Littoral | |
Rheintalflug |
Before ceasing operations, Team Lufthansa's fleet across its members were:
Operating airline | Country of operated airline | Aircraft | First introduced [note 1] | Last retired[note 2] | Max. passengers[5] | Image | ||
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Aircraft Type[note 3] | Aircraft Subtypes[note 4] | |||||||
Contact Air | Germany | Fokker 50 | Unknown | 1996 | 2004 | 58 | ||
ATR 42 | ATR 42-500 | 2003 | 2010 | 52 | ||||
Augsburg Airways | De Havilland Canada/Bombardier Dash 8 | Bombardier Dash 8-300 | Dash 8-311 | Dash 8-300: 1993 | ||||
Dash 8-314Q | ||||||||
Bombardier Dash 8-400 | Dash 8 Q402 | Dash 8-400: 2000 | 2013 | 68-72 | ||||
Cirrus Airlines[note 5] | Bombardier Dash 8-300 | Dash 8-311 | Unknown | 50-56 | ||||
Embraer ERJ Family | ERJ-145 | Unknown | 50 | |||||
Fairchild- Dornier/Dornier 328 | Fairchild- Dornier/Dornier 328-100 | 33 | ||||||
Fairchild- Dornier/Dornier 328-110 | ||||||||
Fairchild- Dornier/Dornier 328-120 | ||||||||
Fairchild- Dornier/Dornier 328-130 | ||||||||
Air Littoral | France | Bombardier CRJ-100/200 | CRJ-100 | 50 | ||||
Cimber Air | Denmark | CRJ-200 | 2013 | |||||
ATR 72 | ATR 72-200 | 66 | ||||||
ATR 72-212A | Unknown | 78 | ||||||
ATR 42 | ATR 42-300 | 50 | ||||||
ATR 42-310 | 46 | |||||||
Total | 3 | 7 + 2 unknown | 11 + 2 unknown |
Team Lufthansa previously operated the following aircraft:
Operating
Airline |
Country of operating airline | Max. passengers | First introduced [note 6] | Last retired [note 7] | Image | Notes | |||
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Aircraft Type[note 3] | Subtypes operated[note 4] | ||||||||
Rheintalflug | Austria | Embraer ERJ Family | Embraer ERJ 145 | 50 | 1999 | 2002 | |||
De Havilland Canada/Bombardier Dash 8 | Dash 8-300 | Dash 8- 311 | 39 | 1993 | |||||
De Havilland Canada Dash 8-103 | 50-56 | 1995 | 1999 | ||||||
Dash 8-314 | Please Fill In This Part | ||||||||
Contact Air | Germany | Dash 8-311 | 1990 | 1997 | Operated for Lufthansa Cityline between 1992 and 1997[6] | ||||
Augsburg Airways | Dash 8-100 | Dash 8-103 | 1991 | 2002 | |||||
Dash 8-200 | Dash 202Q | 1997 | 2003 |
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