Germanwings

This article is about the low-cost carrier of the Lufthansa Group. For the 1980s airline, see German Wings.

Germanwings

Airbus A320
IATA ICAO Call sign 4U GWI GERMANWINGS
Founded	1997 (1997) as a division of Eurowings
Commenced operations	27 October 2002 (2002-10-27)
Ceased operations	20 April 2020 (2020-04-20)
Operating bases	Berlin–Schönefeld Berlin–Tegel Cologne/Bonn Dortmund Hamburg Hannover Munich Stuttgart
Frequent-flyer program	Boomerang Club Miles & More
Fleet size	33
Parent company	Lufthansa Group
Headquarters	Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Key people	Executive Board: Michael Knitter Francesco Sciortino
Website	www.eurowings.com

Germanwings GmbH was a German low-cost airline wholly owned by Lufthansa from January 2009 which operated under the Eurowings brand. It was based in Cologne with hubs at Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport, Hamburg Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport, and Munich Airport. Further bases were at Hannover Airport and Dortmund Airport.

Germanwings operated independently as Lufthansa's low-cost carrier until October 2015, when the German flag carrier decided to fully transfer its low cost short haul-product to subsidiary Eurowings. After 2016, Germanwings operated as a wet lease operator for its sister Eurowings, with the Germanwings name being phased out. The IATA code 4U continued to operate under the Eurowings brand until March 2018, when it was abandoned and replaced with the Eurowings designator EW. Germanwings was closed and merged back into Eurowings in April 2020 as part of a broad restructuring during the COVID-19 pandemic.