Hapag-Lloyd Express
Hapag -Lloyd Express ( HLX also in the outer appearance or hlx.com ) was a German low-cost airline based in Hanover, and based on the Hannover airport. She was a forerunner of today's TUIfly.
2010 acquired Karlheinz Koegel, founder of L' TUR, TUI the trademark rights to build a new online travel portal under the name hlx.com.
History
Hapag -Lloyd Express was founded in 2002 in Hanover and was the alliance TUI Airlines ( temporarily occurred also as TUIfly), the only non-holiday flyer on. On 15 January 2007, Hapag -Lloyd Express with its sister brand Hapagfly (formerly Hapag -Lloyd Flug ) fused to the common brand TUIfly, which since then occurs as a single airline to the outside and in July 2010 formally also is such, after the Hapag -Lloyd mbH airline was renamed TUIfly GmbH. The independent Hapag -Lloyd Express had recently (summer 2006) a seat load factor of 79.5 %.
2010 acquired Karlheinz Koegel of TUI trademark rights to build a online tour operator under hlx.com. Kögels subsidiary MAM media and more GmbH holds a 51 % and 49% of L' TUR hlx.com.
Price system
As with many other low cost airlines also saw the price system of Hapag -Lloyd Express a changing contingent of mostly quickly sold out cheap tickets for certain flights before, during the majority of the HLX - tickets aligned to a higher, at the current demand, price have been sold. As a rule, these prices were below the average price level of conventional airlines. At Hapag-Lloyd Express the cheap tickets were advertised with the slogan " Fly for the price of a taxi ", which itself should be reflected in the design of a Checker Cab in the livery of the aircraft. Under the slogan " HLX happy hours " tickets were offered for underutilized flights to transport inconvenient times for free, but plus taxes and fees.
Destinations
Hapag -Lloyd Express flew from the airport Berlin- Tegel, Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne -Bonn, Munich, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Leipzig -Halle and Sylt from around 40 destinations in ten European countries. As a decentralized naval bases Cologne -Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart and Leipzig / Halle served.
Fleet
Under its own brand name Hapag- Lloyd Express leveraged under a wet lease aircraft from the Consolidated sister Hapag-Lloyd Flug and the charter airline Germania. The aircraft types Boeing 737 and Fokker 100 were used. Last entertained HLX no longer own fleet, the machines were formally TUIfly in Hapag- Lloyd Flug assigned to these in 2010 was eventually converted to TUIfly GmbH and the fleet took over.