Eurowings AG, a German airline, has its base in Dortmund. Earlier the travel and airline industry, and the Nuremberg Flight Service since the year 1975 used to operate flights in Dortmund. Both of these companies were merged to form Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG in 1993. 98.2% of Eurowings was primarily acquired by Dr. Albrecht Knauf. Eurowings afterward started offering its services from some regional airports of Germany to Paris and Amsterdam, in collaboration with Air France and KLM. Deutsche Lufthansa AG initially 24.9% share of Eurowings AG and by the 1st of April in 2004, Lufthansa managed to purchase 49% share of this airline company. Since the 22nd of December, 2005 Lufthansa and one of the trustees, who has most of its shares, are the owners of majority of the shares of Eurowings AG and are thus the primary decision makers regarding the management of Eurowings. Germanwings, a low cost airline of Germany, is completely owned by Eurowings AG. Eurowings GmbH, which was established in 1997, was renamed to Germanwings GmbH on the 27th of October in 2002. The regional flights operated by Eurowings AG are marketed by Lufthansa. The fleet of Eurowings AG comprises 17 Bombardier CRJ-200LR, 10 BAe 146-300, 5 BAe 146-200 and 2 Bombardier CRJ-700.
| The statistics published every year in the popular magazine Airline Business contain the latest information on alliances, airlines and airports. The leading 100 regional German airlines were listed in Airline Business in 2003 May according to which Eurowings was one of the toppers in respect of the total number of passengers it carried in 2003. With a powerful global partner like Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Eurowings AG is accepting and getting over greater future challenges. The partnership of Eurowings and Lufthansa is based on the long-term sustenance and continuous growth of Eurowings AG. It also takes care of the cargo on each of its flights across its entire fleet.
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Emergency deadline cargo, newspapers, spare parts, documents, bicycles, living animals, medicines, consumable products – just anything and everything are carried by Eurowings AG.
In collaboration with Lufthansa, Eurowings AG operates non-stop flights to a number of major European cities. Moreover several other cities of Europe are well-connected to different parts of the world. The primary hubs of Munich and Frankfurt Eurowings AG are parts of the route covered by Lufthansa.
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