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Lufttransport-Unternehmen

IATA LT	ICAO LTU	Callsign LTU
Founded		1955
Hubs		Düsseldorf International Airport Munich International Airport Berlin-Tegel International Airport
Frequent flyer program		Top Bonus
Member lounge		LTU Lounge
Fleet size		27
Destinations		75
Parent company		Air Berlin
Headquarters		Düsseldorf, Germany
Key people		Jürgen Marbach, Peter Oncken (both CEOs)
Website: http://www.ltu.de/

LTU Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH is an airline based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The initials stand for the German phrase LuftTransport-Unternehmen ("air transport enterprise"). It operates scheduled services on medium and long-haul routes, as well as charter services. Its main bases are Düsseldorf International Airport and Munich International Airport. In November 2007 LTU opened the third base Berlin-Tegel International Airport.^[1]

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

History

LTU was established in May 1955 as Lufttransport Union and started operations on October 20, 1955, in Frankfurt. It adopted its present name in 1956 and has been based in Düsseldorf since 1961. LTU runs very popular USA routes from its Düsseldorf hub and directly competes on some of them with Lufthansa, Germany's flag carrier. LTU did run well frequented services from Düsseldorf to Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai, but they were dropped. The airline was owned (at March 2007) by Intro Verwaltungsgesellschaft (55%) and Marbach Beteiligung und Consulting (45%) and has 2,892 employees.^[1] In March 2007, Air Berlin took over LTU International, creating the fourth largest airline group in Europe in terms of traffic. Between them the airlines carried 22.1 million passengers in 2006. The take over was driven by the prospect of branching into long-haul operations and the chance to establish a stronger presence at Düsseldorf International Airport. LTU will retain its name on its leisure routes, but routes to the United States and China will be branded by Air Berlin. [1] On May 1, 2007 LTU operated the first Arctic & North Pole Sightseeing Flight from continental Europe in aviation history for their charter customer Deutsche Polarflug. The flight took 12h55m and the aircraft, an A330-200 took a group of 283 passengers from Düsseldorf via Norway, Svalbard, The North Pole, Eastern Greenland and Iceland back to Düsseldorf. LTU opened a third long-haul base (to add to Düsseldorf and Munich) at Berlin-Tegel International Airport in October 2007 when it has based a single Airbus A330-200 there to launch flights to Bangkok, Punta Cana and Varadero.^[2]

Destinations

LTU Airbus A330-200

Africa
Asia
North America
North Pole (Polar Flight) (charter on behalf of Deutsche Polarflug)

Fleet

The LTU International fleet consists of the following aircraft (at November 2007) :

LTU Airbus A320-200 Borussia Mönchengladbach D-ALTB in Düsseldorf

**LTU International Airways Fleet**
Aircraft	# of Aircraft
Airbus A320-200	10
Airbus A321-200	4
Airbus A330-200	9
Airbus A330-300	3

In November 2007, the LTU average fleet age is 6.4 years old ^[3]. On April 20 LTU received its 12th long-haul jet a Airbus A330-200.The registration will be D-ALPI. In receiving this jet, LTU have introduced a new livery. After Air Berlin has bought LTU, from the 27 aircraft in the fleet only 7 of them will remain in the LTU colours. LTU talks about ordering 4 Airbus A340-300 jets to expand its international routes.

External links

References

^ ^a ^b "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 107.
^ "LTU base", Airliner World, August 2007, p. 9.
^ LTU International Fleet Age

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