germanwings

Germanwings GmbH is a low-cost airline based in Cologne, Germany, and is wholly owned by Lufthansa. Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport and to a lesser extentHamburg Airport and Berlin Tegel Airport are the important hubs in the airline's network of approximately 86 destinations. Further Germanwings bases are at Hannover-Langenhagen Airport and Dortmund Airport.

In January 2013 Lufthansa will combine short-haul operations outside its main Frankfurt and Munich hubs with Germanwings and it is predicted they will carry 18 million passengers annually.