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Germanwings

Germanwings GmbH was a German low-cost airline wholly owned by Lufthansa which operated under the Eurowings brand. It was based in Cologne with hubs at Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport, Hamburg Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport, and Munich Airport; and further bases at Hannover Airport and Dortmund Airport.

Key facts

Airline.airline: Germanwings
Airline.logo: Germanwings logo.svg
Airline.logo_size: 250
Airline.fleet_size: 33
Airline.IATA: 4U
Airline.ICAO: GWI
Airline.callsign: GERMANWINGS
Airline.parent: Lufthansa Group
Airline.headquarters: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Airline.key_people: Executive Board:

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Contents

History
Early years
Takeover of Lufthansa routes from 2012
Integration into Eurowings from 2015
Corporate affairs
Service concept
Business trends
Destinations
Codeshare agreements
Fleet
Special liveries
Incidents and accidents
See also
References
External links

Germanwings operated independently as Lufthansa's low-cost carrier until October 2015, when Lufthansa decided to fully transfer the brand identity of its low cost short haul-product to Eurowings. After 2016, Germanwings operated as a wet lease operator for its sister company Eurowings, with the Germanwings branding being phased out. The IATA code 4U continued to operate under the Eurowings brand until March 2018, when it was abandoned and replaced with the Eurowings designator EW. Germanwings was closed and merged back into Eurowings in April 2020 as part of a broad restructuring during the COVID-19 pandemic.