Discover Airlines
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| Commenced operations | 24 July 2021 | ||||||
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| Frequent-flyer program | Miles & More | ||||||
| Fleet size | 16 | ||||||
| Parent company | Lufthansa | ||||||
| Headquarters | Frankfurt, Germany[2] | ||||||
| Website | discover | ||||||
Eurowings Discover is a German airline headquartered in Frankfurt. It is owned by the Lufthansa Group and mainly serves long-haul leisure destinations.
History
Eurowings Discover started operations on 24 July 2021, flying from Frankfurt to Mombasa and Zanzibar with A330, having obtained its air operator's certificate. It is considered to be the main competitor of German leisure carrier Condor which serves several of the routes Eurowings Discover will also take up.[3]
The carrier has already expanded its network to Punta Cana, Windhoek and Victoria Falls. Later in 2021 Eurowings Discover was added flights to Las Vegas, Mauritius, Bridgetown, Montego Bay, Varadero, Canary Islands, Egypt, and Morocco. The fleet is supposed to grow to 10 A320s and 11 A330s by mid 2022.[4][5]
In September 2021, Lufthansa announced it would move responsibility for several mid-haul leisure routes to Eurowings Discover.[6] It based three Airbus A320-200s in Frankfurt serving five destinations on the Canary Islands in late 2021.[7]
Destinations
Fleet
As of June 2022, the Eurowings Discover fleet consists of the following aircraft:[13]
| Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | |||
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| C | W | Y | Total | ||||
| Airbus A320-200 | 6 | 4[13] | 0 | 0 | 180 | 180 | Transferred from Lufthansa.[13] |
| Airbus A330-200 | 3 | — | 22 | 17 | 231 | 270 | Transferred from SunExpress Deutschland.[13] |
| Airbus A330-300 | 7 | 2[13] | 30 | 28 | 225 | 283 | Transferred from Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines and Edelweiss Air.[13] |
| Total | 16 | 6 | |||||
References
- ^ "Eurowings Discover airline profile".
- ^ "Discover". Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ handelsblatt.com (German) 16 July 2021
- ^ "Lufthansa's Eurowings Discover Gets Commercial Air Transport Certificate". MarketWatch. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ^ "Ready for take-off: Eurowings Discover has been granted Air Operator Certificate". Lufthansa Group. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ touristik-aktuell.de (German) 10 September 2021
- ^ [airliners.de - "Eurowings Discover started mid-haul routes"] (German) 1 November 2021
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Lufthansa Extended Flight Search". Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y https://www.lufthansaexperts.com/shared/files/lufthansa/public/mcms/folder_102/folder_6718/file_152223.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Hofmann, Kurt (16 July 2021). "Eurowings Discover CEO sets out plans for Munich base". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ "Nueva aerolínea europea de ocio iniciará vuelos directos entre Alemania y Panamá".
- ^ "Direct Flights, Frankfurt to Kruger Park".
- ^ a b c d e f "planespotters.net". 15 June 2022.
External links
Media related to Discover Airlines at Wikimedia Commons