Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter
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| Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter | ||
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| IATA HE |
ICAO LGW |
Callsign WALTER |
| Founded | 1980 | |
| Hubs | Berlin-Tegel International Airport | |
| Secondary hubs | Dusseldorf International Airport, Dortmund Airport | |
| Frequent flyer program | topbonus | |
| Alliance | Cooperation with airberlin | |
| Fleet size | 6 | |
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| Headquarters |  Dortmund, Germany |
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| Website: http://www.lgw.de/ | ||
LGW is a German regional airline officially known as Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter mbH. The Dortmund based airline transported about 50,000 passengers in 2003 and the expected sales is 13 million Euro in 2004. Altogether the company has approximately 75 employees, who are working in the parts flight operations, maintenance, ground operations, booking-center, flight-school and administration.[citation needed]
The airline operates scheduled domestic services from Dortmund and seasonal services to the North Sea islands. Its main base is Dortmund Airport.[1]
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[edit] History
The company was founded by German pilot instructor Bernd Walter, who still is the owner and CEO of LGW, at Dortmund Wickede Airport in 1980. At the outset the small company offered flights to German North Sea islands, sightseeing-flights and flight-training with a single Cessna U 206 "Stationair". In 1988 LGW expanded with buying a Britten-Norman Islander for the North Sea flights.[citation needed]
After German reunification LGW was one of the first German airlines which started flights from West Germany to the former German Democratic Republic. LGW connected with Cessna 404 Dortmund with Berlin, Erfurt and other cities in former East Germany. As of 1992 the fleet was replaced by Dornier Do 228. In the meantime LGW took up new routes (e.g. from/to Hanover, Paderborn/Lippstadt or Rostock/Laage) and has become one of the biggest regional airlines in North Rhine-Westphalia. In recent years LGW took over many routes, which were left by other airlines, e.g. the route Dortmund-Nuremberg (in 2002, ex. Eurowings), Dortmund-Stuttgart (in 2003, ex. European Air Express) and Dortmund-Berlin-Tempelhof (in 2004, ex. City Air Germany).[citation needed]
[edit] Destinations
Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter is based at Dortmund Airport in Dortmund (North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany. It has also one aircraft based at Düsseldorf International Airport. LGW is the dominate regional airline at Dortmund Airport with daily flights to Berlin-Tempelhof, Dresden, Leipzig/Halle, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, in summer period also to Westerland/Sylt. The passengers of LGW are mainly businessmen.[citation needed]
Destinations served:
- From/to Berlin-Tegel
- From/to Dortmund
- From/to Düsseldorf
- From/to Hanover
- From/to Saarbrücken
[edit] Fleet
As of March 2007 the LGW fleet includes [1] :
Used for all domestic and charter flights.
Other aircraft:[citation needed]
Used for sightseeing-flights around Dortmund, Flight training and pilot-charter.
Used for Flight training and pilot-charter.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 107.
[edit] External links
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