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33-478: KSF may refer to: Kassel Airport , IATA code Key shock factor , a "shock factor value" for assessing the damages that may be caused by a torpedo explosion Key success factor Kjøbenhavns Skøjteløberforening Kosovo Security Force Potassium fluorosilicate ( K 2 [SiF 6 ] ), specifically when referring to KSF phosphors used in warmer white LED with improved red band emission Topics referred to by

66-502: A 100%-stake in the start-up, Germania was contracted to wet-lease eight of its Boeing 737-700 aircraft. Hapag-Lloyd Express commenced operations with the first four Boeing 737 on 3 December. Germania flights between Berlin and Cologne/Bonn were moved to Hapag-Lloyd Express as part of the deal. However, Germania retained own scheduled operations between from Berlin Tegel to Frankfurt and Munich. In November 2002, flights to Palma da Mallorca

99-520: A German tour operator. In February 2017, Sundair announced they will base an Airbus A320 instead of an Airbus A319 at Kassel Airport. In May 2017, Amazon.com announced it would end its cargo flights from Kassel to Doncaster Sheffield Airport which led to the reduction of freight operations at the airport by half as Amazon was the largest customer. Amazon maintains a major logistics and delivery facility in nearby Bad Hersfeld . On 1 July 2017, Sundair started their summer schedule flights. Due to

132-407: A fixed-fare scheme - depending the route tickets were sold at a single price with no differentiation concerning time of booking. Germania gradually refurbished further Fokker 100, allowing a continued growth of its gexx division. Within the first year of operations, gexx handled 1,42 million passengers while maintaining an average load factor of 72 percent and an average ticket fare of EUR 82, allowing

165-667: A one-way ticket at EUR 99.00. Incumbent operator Lufthansa reacted immediately by lowering its prices and effectively matching the low Germania fares. Previously, Lufthansa sold tickets between these two cities for EUR 485.00 return. Lufthansa was sued for its anticompetitive practice and was forced to raise its fare to at least EUR 30.50 one-way over the Germania fare. By early summer 2002, it became public that Germania obviously would lose its major leisure charter contract with German tour operator TUI from late 2002. The contract accounted for 75 percent of Germania's flight volume. The loss of

198-728: A private company, annual reports did not have to be published. Very few figures were released into the public domain. In the absence of these, the little information for the Germania group that appears to be available was: * In the absence of meaningful published data, the number of scheduled seats operated is shown as a proxy for the trends of the business. Germania offered a wide range of some year-round and mainly seasonal leisure and some metropolitan routes from several German airports. From its bases, scheduled flights to Armenia , Turkey , Kosovo , Israel and Lebanon were also offered, servicing minorities living in Germany and Austria. At

231-761: A privately owned German airline with its headquarters in Berlin . It began by focusing on charter operations, then moved towards becoming a scheduled carrier, although some charter flights were still flown under the brand. The change in strategy led to growth over its last few years, and Germania operated to destinations in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from several German bases. It carried 2.5 million passengers in 2009 and had around 850 employees as of summer 2014. It declared bankruptcy on 4 February 2019 and it ceased operations on 5 February 2019. The airline

264-622: A profitable operation. At the same time, it operated 15 Fokker 100 to 26 destinations around Europe. Following a purchase of a 64% stake in dba (later part of Air Berlin ) on 28 March 2005, Germania wet-leased 12 Fokker 100 aircraft to dba. At the same time, dba took over Germania Express's 15 established low-cost routes and thus absorbed Germania's gexx brand. Germania on the other hand, with all aircraft having been leased to other airlines, no longer offered routes directly to passengers. Germania relaunched scheduled flights under its own brand name out of Berlin and Düsseldorf , beginning with

297-417: A single asphalt runway , 04/22 (040°/220°), which is 1,500 by 30 m (4,921 by 98 ft). There was a parallel grass strip north of the main runway, which is 700 by 30 m (2,297 by 98 ft). The new runway 09/27 has a length of 8,200 ft (2,500 m) and width of 147 ft (45 m). The airport features two aprons, one in front of the passenger terminal for two mid-sized aircraft such as

330-427: A week. The airline also announced flights to Palma de Mallorca, Antalya, Heraklion and Hurghada for summer season 2015 and therefore increasing their presence at Kassel Airport. On 15 March 2014, the airports' chief executive was fired with immediate effect. In January 2015, the airport was renamed Kassel Airport . In December 2015, Germania announced it would reduce flights to and from Kassel due to low demand;

363-527: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kassel Airport Built on farmland, 908 ft (277 m) ASL lying NNE of the Hoher Dörnberg , the airport was opened on 11 July 1970. It has been operated as a public–private partnership since 1991. A completely new regional airport has been built next to the old airport to accommodate commercial chartered and scheduled carriers as well as

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396-498: The Airbus A320 family and a separate one for general aviation aircraft. The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Kassel Airport: The nearest other minor international airport is Paderborn Lippstadt Airport approx. 70 kilometres (43 mi) to the northwest. Kassel Airport can be reached via the federal highway B7 which is itself connected to motorway A7 . The express-bus route 100 connects

429-491: The 2008 summer schedule. The foundations were laid for the first maintenance hangar at Berlin Brandenburg Airport on 21 March 2011. Germania planned to use the hangar together once the airport becomes operational. On 3 March 2014, Germania had its traffic rights for flights to Iraq revoked after an intervention by Iraqi Airways . On 12 March 2014, Germania was allowed to resume all operations to Iraq with

462-488: The 2014 summer season. They also took over the flights to Antalya which had been offered by Tailwind Airlines during the 2013 summer season. While no airline or tour operator offered flights out of Kassel Airport during the 2013/14 winter season, Germania operated two flights per week to Palma de Mallorca and also two flights per week to Antalya in the following 2014 summer season. In the winter season 2014/2015 Germania operated flights to Antalya and Fuerteventura once

495-555: The 2017 summer season serving up to 13 weekly flights to destinations around the Mediterranean. The finance minister of Hesse stated that this would be the airport's final chance to establish sustainable operations before being legally downgraded to an airfield due to a lack of consistent commercial services. In November 2016, the new German airline Sundair announced that they will base an Airbus A319 in summer 2017. They will operate charter-flights for Schauinsland-Reisen ,

528-494: The TUI charter contract combined with other business development led to skepticism regarding the financial health of the company. At that time, Germania and S.A.T. had a fleet of 27 aircraft of which only eight were deployed on the carriers charter and scheduled services. All remaining aircraft were leased to others. Later, Germania was again partnered by TUI for creation of its new low-cost division Hapag-Lloyd Express . While TUI took

561-538: The airline. On 31 January 2019, it was reported that payment of employee salaries would be delayed. Germania eventually ceased flight operations without previous notice in the night from 4 to 5 February 2019 and declared bankruptcy for itself and its technical and service divisions (excluding Germania Flug in Switzerland ). The final scheduled Germania flight to be in the air was ST 3711 from Fuerteventura to Nuremberg which landed on 5 February at 01:11 CET in

594-674: The airport to an airfield as previously proposed due to an expected positive outlook regarding the negative financial and operational situation. In 2024, Sundair announced it would withdraw the sole aircraft which it had based in Kassel since 2017. This led to the loss of most seasonal scheduled routes and sparked further controversy regarding the lackluster utilization of the airport. Kassel features one single small passenger terminal building with basic facilities such as car rental desks and some shops. As there are no jet bridges , buses and walk-boarding are in use. The old airport used to have

627-399: The airport with Kassel city center (journey time approx. 25 minutes) as well as Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe station (40 minutes), which is an important long-distance railway hub. [REDACTED] Media related to Flughafen Kassel-Calden at Wikimedia Commons Germania (airline) Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH , trading as Germania ( German pronunciation: ['gɛrmani:a] ), was

660-499: The airport's financial prospect in 2017 and might vote for the airport to be shut down. In September 2016, Germania announced that they will not return to the airport for the 2017 summer season leading to the cancellation of all three seasonal services to Antalya , Heraklion and Palma de Mallorca and leaving the airport with barely any scheduled flights. Shortly after, newly founded German leisure charter airline Sundair announced they would base an aircraft at Kassel Airport during

693-544: The bankruptcy of that airline, Enter Air was contracted instead, but also pulled out on 20 March 2013. The flights to Tenerife operated by Germania were scheduled to end in October 2013 but already terminated on 22 August 2013 due to low demand. Additionally, the flights to Antalya offered by Tailwind Airlines were reduced in frequency and served less than once a week. Germania as the airports main user announced that their service to Palma de Mallorca would resume in

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726-667: The bid for flight services between the old and new capital of Germany ( Bonn and Berlin ) on behalf of the German government, establishing a short-lived Beamten-Shuttle (German for “shuttle for civil servants”). In 1998, the airline pioneered the use of aircraft for advertising in Germany (advertisers included Siemens and various tour operators). In the same year, Germania began to lease more and more planes to other airlines such as Hapag-Lloyd Express , Maersk and Delta . On 12 November 2001, Germania launched scheduled services between Berlin Tegel and Frankfurt. Germania initially offered

759-444: The business and general aviation from the old airport. The new airport has officially opened on 4 April 2013 with the arrival of a Germania flight from Frankfurt Airport . The new airport faced several struggles when opened. The most important customer at first was the travel agency branch of REWE Group , with charter flights to the Mediterranean region. Originally, these were planned to be operated by XL Airways Germany . Following

792-413: The company was re-organised and its name was changed to Germania , the traditional Latin name of Germany, on 1 June 1986. For many years, Germania's main area of doing business were charter services for TUI , Condor and Neckermann Reisen – an area in which Germania earned a reputation for offering the lowest prices. In 1992 the registered office was relocated to Tegel . In the same year Germania won

825-446: The delayed delivery of their ordered Airbus A320 the flights are operated as wet-lease by Cobrex Trans with a Boeing 737 and by other Airlines. On 27 September 2017, Sundair started to operate their first Airbus A320 from Kassel Airport, with the first commercial flight to Palma de Mallorca ; the day before, Sundair received their AOC . In December 2017, the state government of Hesse announced that they would not downgrade

858-431: The first flight resuming on the 17 March 2014. Germania opened two seasonal UK bases in summer 2013, Manchester and London-Gatwick after securing charter contracts from several holiday companies. London-Gatwick remained as a permanent base after opening two scheduled routes to Pristina and Erfurt. London-Gatwick also served an inbound destination for sister company, Gambia Bird airlines. In summer 2014, Norwich International

891-401: The morning. Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH was a private company that had been founded and run for many years by Hinrich Bischoff, who died on 11 November 2005. His wife Ingrid Bischoff was the main shareholder, but she sold it. Germania had its headquarters at Riedemannweg 58, Berlin, Germany. There are three main operating subsidiaries: Germania also had an interest in: As Germania was

924-412: The route to Hurghada ceased entirely by 30 December 2015. In May 2016, it was reported that the airport's construction phase was under investigation for violating rules regarding competition and transparency during its procurement. In June 2016, criticism has been made public that there won't be any scheduled flights during the entire winter 2016/2017 schedule. The state government of Hesse will review

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990-504: The time. In August 2017, the airline obtained an air operator's certificate (AOC) for its Bulgarian subsidiary, Bulgarian Eagle , and it has registered an Airbus A319 in Bulgaria. The aircraft was going to be, according to the airline, wet-leased to partner companies. In December 2018, it was reported that the airline had suffered heavy losses in recent years, especially during 2018 and that its owners were seeking potential buyers for

1023-415: Was added as Germania's third UK (seasonal) base. In spring 2015, Germania announced plans to phase out all of their recently refurbished Boeing 737-700s by 2020 to become an all- Airbus operator. The airline therefore ordered 25 new Airbus A320neos for delivery from 2020. In September 2016, Germania announced it would cease all operations at Kassel Airport where it was the only scheduled carrier at

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1056-440: Was added. Reportedly in late 2002 or very early 2003, Germania acquired a fleet of 17 Fokker 100 from bankrupt US Airways at an extremely low price. Germania decided to use its acquired Fokker 100 fleet to build a low-budget airline named "gexx". Set-up as a virtual carrier with flights operated by its mother Germania, gexx commenced short-haul operations out of Berlin Tegel on June 1, 2003. Unlike most other airlines, gexx used

1089-574: Was founded in April 1978 as Special Air Transport or SAT for short in Cologne and started operations on 5 September 1978 with a Fokker F-27 . In November 1978, a Sud Aviation Caravelle was purchased from LTU , which was replaced by two used Boeing 727-100 from Hapag-Lloyd Flug (now TUIfly ). Germania Express adopted the IATA code "ST" which was previously used by Yanda Airlines . In spring 1986,

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