European Air Transport Leipzig
Leipzig / Halle Airport
The European Air Transport Leipzig GmbH (EAT -LEJ ) is a cargo airline and an aircraft maintenance facility at Leipzig / Halle Airport, based in Schkeuditz, the location of DHL Hub Leipzig.
History
The 100 - % - owned subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG was founded in November 2005 and took over after the laying of the European hub of DHL from Brussels to Leipzig / Halle in the spring of 2008, a large part of the tasks of the former DHL Operations BV in Brussels. It currently employs 90 pilots and 430 employees, the management has Markus Otto, Vice President Aviation Germany.
The EAT Leipzig took over at first only the maintenance and repair of DHL -owned cargo aircraft fleets of European Air Transport NV / SA ( Brussels ), DHL Air Limited ( East Midlands) and Aero Logic (Leipzig / Halle ). After European Air Transport N.V. his formerly derived from the Irish airline Air Contractors aircraft was transferred back in early 2010 to this, the acquisition of the remaining eleven normal flying machines by the European Air Transport Leipzig GmbH was the completion of the initiated in November 2007, complete displacement of the European DHL main air hub from Brussels to Leipzig / Halle. The European Air Transport N.V. was taken due to the merger agreement of 10 February 2010 by the European Air Transport Leipzig GmbH and merged with this. At the same time, the general meeting approved the change of the corporate purpose in " operation of all and with aviation and its promotion related businesses and institutions, particularly rent, renting, leasing, charter, acquisition, sale, operation, management, maintenance, financing and insurance of aircraft and aircraft parts the carriage of passengers, crew, cargo and mail on national and international routes. " Airline codes and callsign were taken over by the company being acquired.
The eleven Belgian aircraft received in March 2010 a German registry, so EAT Leipzig not only acts as an aircraft maintenance facility, but also as an air freight company. The required operating license was granted to the company by the Luftfahrt -Bundesamt on 31 March 2010.
Main job of EAT Leipzig is the 30 -meter-high airplane hangar with an area of 232 times 98 meters. With its total floor space of 27 460 m², it has space for two machines of the largest civil airliner Airbus A380 or a correspondingly larger number of smaller aircraft. In addition, EAT Leipzig operates a filling station ( also referred to as "Fuel Farm" ), which has three tanks, each with 3,800 m³ capacity specifically for the needs of the DHL hub. The Post's own tanker fleet is operated by Turbo Fuel Services Saxony GbR. Thus, the continuous supply of operating in the DHL network airlines is ensured with kerosene. The EAT Leipzig in the areas of support Flight Operations and Ground Operation foreign airlines.
The company is both a licensed operation for the maintenance of aircraft and components in accordance with Annex II (Part -145 ) of Regulation ( EC) No 2042 /2003 ( PDF, 1.03 MB ) Commission Decision of 20 November 2003 ( EASA Part 145 ) and an approved air carriers in accordance with Regulation (EC ) No 1008 /2008 ( PDF, 130 KB ) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 2008.
Destination airports
The European cargo airlines in the EAT Leipzig serve destinations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. 56 countries are served.
The DHL network in Europe consists of the following nodes:
- Commercial hubs: Amsterdam (Schiphol ), Netherlands (AMS )
- Charles de Gaulle, Paris, France ( CDG)
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany ( FRA )
- London - Heathrow, United Kingdom ( LHR )
- Madrid, Spain ( MAD)
- Barcelona, Spain ( " BCN " )
- Copenhagen ( Kastrup ), Denmark ( CPH)
- Vitoria, Spain ( VIT)
- Leipzig / Halle, Germany ( LEJ )
- Bergamo ( Milan ), Italy ( BGY)
- Brussels, Belgium ( BRU )
- East Midlands, United Kingdom ( EMA, operated by sister airline DHL Air UK )
Fleet
As of July 2013, the fleet of the European Air Transport Leipzig from 38 cargo aircraft is:
In May 2011, the Company purchased 13 passenger aircraft of the type A300B4 - 622R by Japan Airlines and registered in Germany. These have replaced the 2010 transferred to Air Contractors A300B4 -200. With the conversion, which represents the largest single order in the company's history, the EADS Elbe Flugzeugwerke Dresden began in early June 2011. On 15 November 2011, the same is handed over aircraft plants in the presence of the Saxon traffic Secretary Roland Werner the first to cargo plane converted Airbus A300 -622 to the EAT. DHL also placed a new order for five more Airbus conversions.