Germanwings

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.