SunExpress Deutschland


SunExpress Deutschland GmbH is a German leisure airline headquartered in Gateway Gardens, Flughafen, 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. The company will cease all operations in 2020.

History

SunExpress Deutschland was founded on 8 June 2011 as a subsidiary of SunExpress and started operations with three Boeing 737-800s. It was founded in order to fly from Germany to the Red Sea using the German AOC. These routes have been served on 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 would be the operator of Eurowings' new long-haul operations, which are based at Cologne Bonn Airport, from November 2015. SunExpress Deutschland therefore has received leased Airbus A330-200s.
On 23 June 2020 SunExpress announced SunExpress Deutschland would cease operations in 2020 and will be orderly liquidated. Its route network would be partially taken over by SunExpress and Eurowings.

Destinations

Operated as SunExpress Deutschland

As of February 2018, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following routes:
;Bulgaria
;Bosnia and Herzegovina
;Egypt
;Germany
;Greece
;Italy
;Lebanon
;Morocco
Norway
;Spain
;Turkey
As of July 2017, SunExpress Deutschland operated the following long-haul routes for Eurowings:
;Barbados
;Cuba
;Dominican Republic
;Germany
;Jamaica
;Mauritius
;Mexico
;Namibia
;Thailand
;United States of America
As of January 2020, the SunExpress Deutschland fleet consisted of the following aircraft: