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Founded | 2010 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 2011 | ||||||
Operating bases | Frankfurt Airport | ||||||
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Frequent-flyer program | SunPoints | ||||||
Fleet size | 22 | ||||||
Destinations | 20 | ||||||
Parent company | SunExpress | ||||||
Headquarters | Frankfurt, Germany | ||||||
Website | sunexpress.com |
SunExpress Deutschland GmbH is a German leisure airline headquartered in Frankfurt. It is a subsidiary of SunExpress, which itself is a joint-venture of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. Its main base is Frankfurt Airport with smaller bases at several other airports throughout Germany.
SunExpress Deutschland was founded on the 8 June 2011 as a subsidiary of SunExpress and started operations with three Boeing 737-800. It was founded in order to fly from Germany to the Red Sea using the German AOC. These routes have been served on the 2 November 2011 for the first time and the network has since been extended to several more leisure destinations in Southern Europe and North Africa.
In February 2015, the Lufthansa Group announced that SunExpress Deutschland will be the operator of Eurowings' new long-haul operations which will be based at Cologne Bonn Airport from November 2015. SunExpress Deutschland therefore will receive leased Airbus A330-200s.
SunExpress Deutschland serves the following destinations under its own brand as well as on behalf of Eurowings as of November 2015:
As of November 2016, the SunExpress Deutschland fleet consists of the following aircraft: