Hamburg Airways Luftverkehrgesellschaft mbH

Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung

Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung is a type of legal entityvery common in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and other Central European countries...

 is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 start-up airline based at Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, operating scheduled and chartered holiday flights on behalf of tour operators. The airline operates flights out of several German airports, with its maintenance base being located at Hamburg Airport

Hamburg Airport

Hamburg Airport , also known as Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport , is an international airport serving Hamburg, Germany.It originally covered . Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to . The main apron covers . The airport is north of the centre of the city of Hamburg in the Fuhlsbüttel...

. Flights are operated throughout Europe, Eurasia, the middle East and Africa.

History

The airline was founded in December 2010 following the demise of Hamburg International

Hamburg International

Hamburg International Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH & Co. Betriebs KG was an independent passenger airline based in Hamburg-Nord, Hamburg, Germany, operating scheduled charter services for European tour operators, as well as ad hoc charters and subservices...

 in late 2010, which had left a void on the German holiday flight market. The first revenue flights for Hamburg Airways where conducted in March 2011.

Fleet

As of July 2011, the Hamburg Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 3.9 years:

Hamburg Airways fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Passengers
Airbus A319	2	150
Airbus A320 Airbus A320 The Airbus A320 family is a family of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger jet airliners manufactured by Airbus Industrie.Airbus was originally a consortium of European aerospace companies, and is now fully owned by EADS. Airbus's name has been Airbus SAS since 2001...	1
Total	3