Cimber A/S was a Danish

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headquartered in

Sønderborg (; german: Sonderburg ) is a Danish town in the Region of Southern Denmark. It is the main town and the administrative seat of Sønderborg Municipality (Kommune). The town has a population of 27,766 (1 January 2022),Copenhagen Airport Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup ( da, Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup, ; ) is an international airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark, Zealand, the Øresund Region, and southern Sweden including Scania. It is the second largest airport in the Nordi ...

. It flies exclusively for

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(SAS) on a

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(ACMI) contract. Cimber has been owned by

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since early 2017 and was previously a subsidiary of SAS.

History

Cimber Sterling Cimber Sterling A/S, also known as Cimber Air and styled as Cimber Sterling, was a Danish airline based in Sønderborg, Sønderborg Municipality, Denmark, operating scheduled domestic and international services in co-operation with Scandinavi ...

went bankrupt on 3 May 2012. At that point, the airline had been flying to up to 30 destinations daily, primarily in Northern and Eastern Europe from Copenhagen Airport, on behalf of Scandinavian Airlines, with four

Bombardier CRJ-200 The Bombardier CRJ100 and CRJ200 (previously Canadair CRJ100 and CRJ200) is a regional jet designed and manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace between 1991 and 2006, the first of the Bombardier CRJ family. The ''Canadair Regional Jet'' (CRJ) pro ...

aircraft. This arrangement was extended by the

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, law firm Kromann Reumert, to 16 May, as it was profitable. On 16 May, it was announced that several parts of Cimber Sterling had been sold, including the ACMI contract with Scandinavian Airlines. The buyers of the contract were former key people of Cimber Sterling, Jørgen Nielsen (son of the Cimber Air founder Ingolf Nielsen), the former juridical director Alex Dyrgaard, and the former CEO of the airline Jacob Krogsgaard. The deal included 114 employees who would continue as part of Cimber A/S. At the same time, Scandinavian Airlines and Cimber A/S signed an extension of the agreement, valid till the summer 2014. Cimber had no plans of flying under own name, but will only operate for other airlines. Cimber began with a share capital of DKK 600,000. In September 2014, Cimber announced the shutdown of its operations by March 2015 as Scandinavian Airlines as their single customer did not intend to renew their contracts. But in December 2014, Scandinavian Airlines announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of Cimber for DKK20 million (US$3.3 million). Scandinavian Airlines planned to transfer 12 CRJ900 aircraft to Cimber to operate from Copenhagen Airport and to continue with the Cimber's previous plans to retire its ATR 72 and CRJ200 aircraft. In January 2017, SAS reached an agreement with

whereby CityJet bought Cimber and would continue to operate flights on behalf of SAS.flightglobal.com - SAS sells CRJ900 operator Cimber to CityJet
24 January 2017 Cimber was merged into CityJet in 2018.

Destinations

Cimber does not operate any routes under its own brand. All flights are conducted on behalf of

, within their regional and European route network.

Fleet

Current fleet

The Cimber fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2017):

Former fleet

The airline previously operated the following aircraft: * 2 further Bombardier CRJ200ER

References

External links

Official website
{{Airlines of Denmark Defunct airlines of Denmark Airlines established in 2012 Airlines disestablished in 2018 Defunct companies based in Sønderborg Municipality