Team Lufthansa

Team Lufthansa
	Logo of Team Lufthansa
	Livery of Team Lufthansa using a Dornier 328-110
Founded	April 1996
Ceased operations	16 October 2003 (replaced by Lufthansa Regional)
Parent company	Lufthansa Group

Team Lufthansa was an alliance of regional airlines from 4 countries (Germany, Denmark, Austria, and France), which flew niche routes on behalf of Lufthansa. It was replaced with Lufthansa Regional in 2003.[1]

Overview

Team Lufthansa was founded in 1996 by Lufthansa in the wake of the deregulation of the airline market as new competitors like Deutsche BA challenged established airlines.[2] Besides connecting point-to-point destinations, the alliance also provided Lufthansa flights on niche routes from Frankfurt and Munich. The founding members were later expanded by the accession of Rheintalflug, Air Littoral and Cirrus Airlines.[3][4]

The alliance ceased to exist in 2003, when Lufthansa reorganized its regional network as Lufthansa Regional.[1]

Team Lufthansa after 2004

Lufthansa Regional was founded as the replacement of Team Lufthansa, which consisted of predominantly independent airlines contracted by Lufthansa. As of January 2018, Lufthansa Regional consists of two members, Air Dolomiti and Lufthansa CityLine, which are both fully owned by Lufthansa. They are based at Lufthansa's hubs at Frankfurt Airport and Munich Airport and carry 10.5 million passengers a year mostly to minor domestic and European destinations.

As part of Lufthansa's new corporate design introduced in early 2018, Lufthansa Regional aircraft operated by Lufthansa CityLine are also receiving the new livery which reads "Lufthansa." "Regional" titles are being removed from the fuselages of Lufthansa Regional aircraft and replaced by "Lufthansa" titles.

As of March 2020, one sole route remained as operated by Air Dolomiti under the Lufthansa brand while all other of their operations are codeshared using their own brand name.

Members

The member airlines of Team Lufthansa were:

Airline	Notes
Cimber Air	Founding member
Augsburg Airways
Contact Air
Cirrus Airlines
Air Littoral
Rheintalflug

Fleet

Fleet In 2003

Before ceasing operations, Team Lufthansa's fleet across its members were:

Team Lufthansa fleet, 2003
Operating airline	Country of operated airline	Aircraft			First introduced (can be before Team Lufthansa was founded)	Max. passengers	Image	Last retired (this can be after Team Lufthansa ceased operations)
Operating airline	Country of operated airline	Aircraft Type (can show one aircraft more than once)	Aircraft Subtypes (can show one aircraft more than once)		First introduced (can be before Team Lufthansa was founded)	Max. passengers	Image
Contact Air	Germany	Fokker 50	Unknown		1996	58		2004
Contact Air		ATR 42	ATR 42-500		2003	52		2010
Augsburg Airways		De Havilland Canada/Bombardier Dash 8	Bombardier Dash 8-300	Dash 8-311	Dash 8-300: 1993
			Bombardier Dash 8-300	Dash 8-314Q	Dash 8-300: 1993
			Bombardier Dash 8-400	Dash 8 Q402	Dash 8-400: 2000	68-72		2013
Cirrus Airlines (showing all aircraft they ever operated in Team Lufthansa livery)			Bombardier Dash 8-300			50-56		Unknown
		Embraer ERJ Family	ERJ-145		Unknown	50
		Fairchild- Dornier/Dornier 328	Fairchild- Dornier/Dornier 328-100			33
			Fairchild- Dornier/Dornier 328-110
			Fairchild- Dornier/Dornier 328-120				Dornier 328-200 In Cirrus Airlines Livery
			Fairchild- Dornier/Dornier 328-130
Air Littoral	France	Bombardier CRJ-100/200	CRJ-100
Cimber Air	Denmark	Bombardier CRJ-100/200	CRJ-200			50		2013
		ATR 72	ATR 72-200			66	An ATR 72-200 In Aer Arann Livery (This Aircraft Formerly Was In Cimber Air Livery)	2013
		ATR 72	ATR 72-212A			Please Fill In This Part		Unknown
		ATR 42	ATR 42-300	ATR 72-300 (no subtypes of the subtype)
		ATR 42	ATR 42-300	ATR 42-310
Total	3	7 + 2 unknown	11 + 2 unknown

Historical fleet

Team Lufthansa previously operated the following aircraft:

Historical fleet of Team Lufthansa
Operating Airline	Country of operating airline	Aircraft (can show one aircraft more than once)	Subtypes operated		Max. passengers	First introduced (this can be before Team Lufthansa was founded)	Last retired (this has to be when Team Lufthansa existed	Image	Notes
Rheintalflug	Austria	Embraer ERJ Family	Embraer ERJ 145		50	1999	2002	ERJ 145 In Rheintalflug Colors
		De Havilland Canada/Bombardier Dash 8	Dash 8-300	Dash 8- 311	39	1993	2002
				De Havilland Canada Dash 8-103	50-56	1995	1999	Rheintalflug Dash 8–100 with Austrian Airlines colors
				De Havilland Canada Dash 8-103	50-56	1995	1999	Rheintalflug Dash 8–100 with Austrian Airlines colors
				Dash 8-314	Please Fill In This Part
Contact Air	Germany			Dash 8-311		1990	1997	Dash 8-300 In Contact Air Livery	Operated for Lufthansa Cityline between 1992 and 1997
Augsburg Airways			Dash 8-100	Dash 8-103		1991	2002
Augsburg Airways			Dash 8-200	Dash 202Q		1997	2003

References

"Lufthansa Regional replaces Team Lufthansa". 16 October 2003. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
spiegel.de (German) 9 March 1997, retrieved 1 May 2021
zeit.de (German) 14 November 1997, retrieved 1 May 2021
welt.de (German) 17 February 2000, retrieved 1 May 2021