Hapag-Lloyd Flug
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Founded | July 1972 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 30 March 1973 | ||||||
Ceased operations | 3 April 2007 | (merged with||||||
Key people | Christoph R. Müller | ||||||
Website | hapagfly.com |
Hapag-Lloyd Flug GmbH (marketed as Hapagfly between 2005 and 2007) was a German leisure airline headquartered in Langenhagen, Lower Saxony that was originally founded by Hapag-Lloyd and later became a subsidiary of TUI Group.[2] It operated scheduled and charter passenger flights mainly to holiday resorts in Europe. Its successor is today's TUI fly Deutschland.
History
Foundation and early years
The original HAPAG company first became involved in the aviation industry in 1910, sponsoring Zeppelin flights.
Hapag-Lloyd Flug was established in July 1972, two years after HAPAG merged with
In 1998, it became the first airline in the world to adopt the
Mergers and rebrandings
Since 1997, it had been a subsidiary of
In November 2005, the airline changed its name to Hapagfly due to the new marketing strategy of the
Destinations
Hapag-Lloyd operated services mainly to European holiday resorts in the Mediterranean Sea area and on the Canary Islands. Most of them are now operated by
Fleet
Over the course of its life, Hapag-Lloyd Flug operated all of the following aircraft, primarily through
Aircraft | Total | Introduced | Retired | Notes |
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Airbus A300B4
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9 | 1979 | 1989 | Three taken from Bavaria Germanair |
1 | 2005 | 2007 | Leased from Lufthansa | |
Airbus A310-200
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5 | 1988 | 2006 | |
Airbus A310-300
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8 | 1990 | 2006 | One written off as Flight 3378 |
BAC One-Eleven 500 | 7 | 1979 | 1981 | All taken from Bavaria Germanair |
Boeing 727-100
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8 | 1972 | 1984 | |
Boeing 727-200
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3 | 1979 | 1983 | |
Boeing 737-200
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6 | 1981 | 1993 | |
Boeing 737-400
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12 | 1989 | 2002 | |
Boeing 737-500
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5 | 1990 | 2004 | |
Boeing 737-800
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39 | 1998 | 2007 | Launch customer |
Incidents and accidents
- On 12 July 2000, Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378, an Airbus A310 flying from Chania to Hanover, suffered fuel exhaustion caused in part by the crew's decision to continue the flight despite faulty landing gear that had partially retracted, which resulted in an emergency crash landing at Vienna Airport. The aircraft was written off, and 26 people were injured.[6] Although it was the first (and remained the only) incident in Hapag-Lloyd's history in which an aircraft was damaged and people were injured, it caused much criticism in the media. In 2004, a Hanover district court convicted Captain Wolfgang Arminger of "dangerous interference into air traffic," saying he was "endangering others' lives" mainly by failing to divert to Zagreb, and sentenced him with a six-month suspended prison sentence.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Airline Membership". IATA. Archived from the original on July 11, 2015.
- ^ "Facts and Figures." Hapagfly. 1 June 2005. Retrieved on 29 May 2009.
- ^ Flight International 3 April 2007
- ^ "Hapag-Lloyd". Aerobernie.bplaced.net. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
- ^ "Hapag-Lloyd Fleet Details and History". Planespotters.net. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
- ^ "Aviation Safety Network summary". Flight Safety Foundation.
- ^ "Pilot lands suspended prison sentence after Vienna crash". Flightglobal.com. 2004-05-18. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
External links
Media related to Hapagfly at Wikimedia Commons
- (in German) Hapagfly (Archive)
- (in English) Hapagfly (Archive)
- (in German) Hapag-Lloyd Flug (Archive)
- (in English) Hapag-Lloyd Flug (2001 Archive)
- Hapagfly Fleet