Cirrus Airlines
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Cirrus Airlines is an airline based in Saarbrücken, Germany. It operates both charter and scheduled flights, the latter on behalf of Lufthansa. Its main base is Saarbrücken Ensheim Airport (SCN).
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History
Cirrus was founded in February 1995 as Cirrus Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH and operated an executive charter business. In March 1998, Cirrus Airlines received its licence to operate scheduled services between Saarbrücken and Hamburg. In August 1999, Cirrus took over the route from Mannheim to Berlin Tempelhof from Cosmos Air.
An important step was taken in February 2000, upon the 5th anniversary of Cirrus Airlines, when it established a cooperative partnership with German owned Lufthansa and became a Team Lufthansa franchise member. In April that year, Cirrus received licences to operate regularly scheduled service between Mannheim and Hamburg and between Berlin and Sylt/Westerland. From 2001 onwards, Cirrus steadily expanded its business, with scheduled services opening between Saarbrücken and Berlin Tempelhof (March 2001), between Berlin Tempelhof and Usedom (May 2002), between Rostock and Munich (May 2002), between Leipzig/Halle and Zürich (January 2003), between Leipzig/Halle and Hamburg (January 2003), between Dresden and Hamburg (March 2003), between Frankfurt and Skopje, Macedonia (April 2003), between Leipzig/Halle and Cologne (May 2003), between Frankfurt and Ohrid (June 2003), between Mannheim and Dresden (March 2004), between Dresden and Zürich (April 2004), between Mannheim and Olbia (May 2004) and between Munich and London City (May 2004). The airline has 650 employees (at January 2005).
Services
Cirrus Airlines operates the following services (at July 2006):
- Domestic scheduled destinations: Berlin (Tempelhof International Airport), Dresden, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Mannheim, Munich, Saarbrücken and Westerland (Sylt Airport).
- International scheduled destinations: Billund, London (London City Airport), Lugano, Skopje (Ends September 10, 2006) and Zürich
Fleet
The Cirrus Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (at July 2006):
- 2 AvCraft Dornier 328Jet
- 1 Boeing 737-500
- 4 Bombardier Dash 8 Q100
- 4 Bombardier Dash 8 Q300
- 2 Embraer ERJ 145
- 2 Embraer ERJ 170
- 7 Dornier 328-110
- 1 Beech King-Air 200
- 1 Citation II
- 2 Lear Jet 60
- 1 Lear Jet 40
- 2 Challenger 604
- 1 Global Express XRS
- 1 Learjet 45
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