Rhein-Neckar Air GmbH, commonly known as ''RNA'', is a German company that offers regional scheduled flights out of

Mannheim City Airport Mannheim City Airport (''City-Airport Mannheim'' in German, formerly Mannheim-Neuostheim/Neuhermsheim) is a minor regional airport serving the German city of Mannheim. It is mainly used for general aviation. Location The airport is located 3.5 ...

. All flights are operated by the German airline MHS Aviation. The company's tag line is ''Fliegen wie privat'', which means ''like flying privately''.

History

After

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ceased operations in 2012,

was left without any scheduled airline service. Although well connected to

Frankfurt Airport Frankfurt Airport (; german: link=no, Flughafen Frankfurt Main , also known as ''Rhein-Main-Flughafen'') is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centres ...

, the local economy demanded the re-establishment of direct flight connections from the

Rhine-Neckar The Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region (german: Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar, ), often referred to as Rhein-Neckar-Triangle, is a polycentric metropolitan region located in south western Germany, between the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region to the North ...

Metropolitan Region to other German cities. Rhein-Neckar Air was consequently founded as a LLC with the support of local companies such as

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, Heidelberg Cement and

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. Operations commenced on 10 March 2014, offering weekday flights between Mannheim City Airport and

Berlin Tegel Airport Berlin Tegel "Otto Lilienthal" Airport (german: link=no, Flughafen Berlin-Tegel „Otto Lilienthal“) was the primary international airport of Berlin, the federal capital of Germany. The airport was named after aviation pioneer Otto Lilienth ...

. After a successful start, flights to

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began later that year. Since 2016 RNA flies seasonally (April–October) to the island of

Sylt Sylt (; da, Sild; Sylt North Frisian, Söl'ring North Frisian: ) is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, and well known for the distinctive shape of its shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian ...

, flights which were also offered from Münster/Osnabrück in 2016 and from

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

in 2017. According to the company 35,000 passengers use its service per year.

Fleet

All aircraft are operated by MHS Aviation.

Destinations

The company operates round-year scheduled flights from Mannheim to Berlin and Hamburg. It also operates seasonal flights from Mannheim to

over the summer months. Other seasonal destinations have been

Nuremberg Airport Nuremberg Airport , german: link=no, Albrecht Dürer Flughafen Nürnberg, is the international airport of the Franconian metropolitan area of Nuremberg and the second-busiest airport in Bavaria after Munich Airport. With about 4.1 million pass ...

and Münster/Osnabrück Airport. RNA also operates charter flights for several local top division sports clubs, such as Adler Mannheim and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

References

2014 establishments in Germany Companies based in Mannheim {{Germany-transport-stub