Cirrus Airlines

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Cirrus Airlines
IATA
C9		 ICAO
RUS		 Callsign
CIRRUS
Founded 1995
Hubs Saarbrücken Airport
Focus cities Mannheim City Airport
Fleet size 50
Destinations 14
Headquarters Hallbergmoos, Germany
Key people Martin Gauss, Daniel Noraman
Website: http://www.cirrusairlines.de/

Cirrus Airlines Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH is an airline based in Saarbrücken, Germany. It operates both charter and scheduled flights, the latter on behalf of Lufthansa. Its main base is Saarbrücken Airport[1].

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[edit] History

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Cirrus was founded in February 1995 as Cirrus Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH and operated an executive charter business. In March 1998, Cirrus Airlines received its licence to operate scheduled services between Saarbrücken and Hamburg. In August 1999, Cirrus took over the route from Mannheim City Airport to Berlin Tempelhof from Cosmos Air.

An important step was taken in February 2000, upon the 5th anniversary of Cirrus Airlines, when it established a cooperative partnership with German owned Lufthansa and became a Team Lufthansa franchise member. In April that year, Cirrus received licences to operate regularly scheduled service between Mannheim City Airport and Hamburg and between Berlin and Sylt/Westerland. From 2001 onwards, Cirrus steadily expanded its business, with scheduled services opening between Saarbrücken and Berlin Tempelhof (March 2001), between Berlin Tempelhof and Heringsdorf Airport on the island of Usedom (May 2002), between Rostock and Munich (May 2002), between Leipzig/Halle and Zürich (January 2003), between Leipzig/Halle and Hamburg (January 2003), between Dresden and Hamburg (March 2003), between Frankfurt and Skopje, Macedonia (April 2003), between Leipzig/Halle and Cologne (May 2003), between Frankfurt and Ohrid (June 2003), between Mannheim City Airport and Dresden (March 2004), between Dresden and Zürich (April 2004), between Mannheim City Airport and Olbia (May 2004) and between Munich and London City (May 2004).

Cirrus Airlines is a company of Cirrus Group Holding including DC Aviation (business charter), Augsburg Airways (Lufthansa Regional), Cirrus Technik (Maintenance), Cirrus Flight Training, Cirrus Technical Training and Aircraft Asset Management. The group is operating over 70 aircraft and has 1,600 employees (at January 2008)[citation needed]. The company introduced a modified corporate identity in January 2008 and decided to move its headquarters from Saarbrücken to Munich..

[edit] Destinations

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Cirrus Airlines operates the following services (at January 2008):

Cirrus Airlines Embraer 170
Cirrus Airlines Embraer 170

[edit] Accidents

At 17:45[2] on 19 March 2008, a Cirrus Airlines Dornier 328 on a flight from Berlin Tempelhof overran the runway at Mannheim City Airport, causing substantial damage to the port wing, propellor, engine and undercarriage. The aircraft involved was D-CTOB, msn 3107. There were no injuries amongst the 24 passengers and three crew.[3]

[edit] Fleet

The Cirrus Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at January 2008):

DC Aviation (Executive-Charter) Fleet:

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 66. 
  2. ^ Local time - GMT +1hr
  3. ^ RECENT ACCIDENTS / INCIDENTS WORLDWIDE. Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre. Retrieved on 2008-03-20.

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