Team Lufthansa was an

alliance An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called ...

regional airlines A regional airline is a general classification of airline which typically operates scheduled passenger air service, using regional aircraft, between communities lacking sufficient demand or infrastructure to attract mainline flights. In North ...

mainly in Germany, who flew niche routes on behalf of Lufthansa.

Overview

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Team Lufthansa was founded in 1996 by Lufthansa in the wake of the deregulation of the airline market as new competitors like Deutsche BA challenged established airlines.spiegel.de
(German) 9 March 1997, retrieved 1 May 2021 Besides connecting point-to-point destinations, the alliance also provided Lufthansa flights on niche routes from

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and

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

. The founding members were later expanded by the accession of Rheintalflug,

Air Littoral Air Littoral was an airline based in France that operated from 1972 to 2004. The airline operated domestic services as well as a small amount of regional routes. The airline also operated feeder services on behalf of Air France. History Air ...

and

Cirrus Airlines Cirrus Airlines Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH was a German regional airline with its head office in Hallbergmoos and its maintenance facilities at Saarbrücken Airport. It operated both charter and scheduled flights, the latter on behalf of Lufthan ...

.zeit.de
(German) 14 November 1997, retrieved 1 May 2021
(German) 17 February 2000, retrieved 1 May 2021 The alliance ceased to exist in 2004, when Lufthansa reorganized its regional network as

Lufthansa Regional Lufthansa Regional is an operational entity for regional and feeder flights performed by two regional airlines owned by Lufthansa within its route network.

Members

The member airlines of Team Lufthansa were:

Overview

Members

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