LTU INTERNATIONAL

'LTU Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH' is an airline based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The initials stand for the German phrase '''L'uft'T'ransport-'U'nternehmen'' ("air transport enterprise"). It operates scheduled services on medium and long-haul routes, as well as charter services. Its main bases are Düsseldorf International Airport and Munich International Airport. In November 2007 LTU will open the third base Berlin-Tegel International Airport.^[1]

Contents

History

Destinations

Fleet

External links

References

History

LTU was established in May 1955 as 'Lufttransport Union' and started operations on October 20, 1955, in Frankfurt. It adopted its present name in 1956 and has been based in Düsseldorf since 1961.
LTU runs very popular USA routes from its Düsseldorf hub and directly competes on some of them with Lufthansa, Germany's flag carrier. LTU did run well frequented services from Düsseldorf to Beijing, Chengdu, and Shanghai, but they were dropped.
The airline was owned (at March 2007) by Intro Verwaltungsgesellschaft (55%) and Marbach Beteiligung und Consulting (45%) and has 2,892 employees.
In March 2007, Air Berlin took over LTU International, creating the fourth largest airline group in Europe in terms of traffic. Between them the airlines carried 22.1 million passengers in 2006. The take over was driven by the prospect of branching into long-haul operations and the chance to establish a stronger presence at Düsseldorf International Airport. LTU will retain its name for the foreseeable future, while its routes will be integrated into Air Berlin's European network. Air Berlin LTU move driven by access to Düsseldorf
On May 1, 2007 LTU operated the first Arctic & North Pole Sightseeing Flight from continental Europe in aviation history for their charter customer Deutsche Polarflug. The flight took 12h55m and the aircraft, an A330-200 took a group of 283 passangers from Düsseldorf via Norway, Svalbard, The North Pole, Eastern Greenland and Iceland back to Düsseldorf.
LTU will open a third long-haul base (to add to Dusseldorf and Munich) at Berlin-Tegel International Airport from October 2007 when it will base a single Airbus A330-200 there to launch flights to Bangkok, Melbourne, Punta Cana and Varadero.^[2]

Destinations

LTU Airbus A330-200

★ 'Asia'

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★ Bangkok

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★ Colombo

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★ Malé

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★ Phuket

★ 'East & Southern Africa'

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★ Cape Town

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★ Mauritius

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★ Mombasa

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★ Windhoek

★ 'Europe & Turkey'

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★ Alicante

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★ Almería

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★ Bodrum

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★ Burgas

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★ Cagliari

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★ Catania

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★ Constanţa

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★ Kerkyra (Corfu)

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★ Dalaman

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★ Dubrovnik

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★ Faro

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★ Fuerteventura

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★ Funchal

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★ Gran Canaria

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★ Heraklion

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★ Eivissa (Ibiza)

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★ Istanbul

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★ İzmir

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★ Karpathos

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★ Kavalla

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★ Kos (Kos Island International Airport)

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★ La Palma

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★ Lanzarote

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★ Larnaca

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★ Lefkas/Preveza

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★ Lesbos

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★ Lisbon

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★ Madrid

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★ Maó (Mahon)

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★ Málaga

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★ Mykonos

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★ Naples

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★ Palma de Mallorca

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★ Paphos

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★ Pristina

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★ Reykjavík

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★ Rhodes

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★ Rome

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★ Samos

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★ Seville

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★ Skopje

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★ Split

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★ Tenerife

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★ (Los Rodeos Airport)

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★ (Reina Sofía Airport)

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★ Thessaloniki

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★ Tivat

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★ Valencia

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★ Varna

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★ Zakynthos (Zakynthos International Airport, "Dionysios Solomos")

★ 'Middle East & North Africa'

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★ Agadir

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★ Beirut

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★ Djerba

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★ Hurghada

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★ Luxor

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★ Marsa Alam

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★ Monastir

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★ Sharm El Sheikh

★ 'North America'

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★ Edmonton

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★ Fort Myers

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★ Las Vegas

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★ Los Angeles

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★ Melbourne (starts November 7, 2007)

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★ Miami

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★ New York City

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★ Toronto

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★ Vancouver

★ 'Caribbean & Central America'

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★ Cancún

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★ Havana

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★ Holguín

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★ Montego Bay

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★ Samaná (Samaná El Catey International Airport)

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★ Puerto Plata

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★ Punta Cana

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★ Varadero

★ 'North Pole (Polar Flight)' (charter on behalf of Deutsche Polarflug)

Fleet

The LTU International fleet consists of the following aircraft (at April 2007) :

LTU Airbus A320-200 ''Borussia Mönchengladbach'' D-ALTB in Düsseldorf

'LTU International Airways Fleet'

Aircraft	# of Aircraft
Airbus A320-200	10
Airbus A321-200	4
Airbus A330-200	9
Airbus A330-300	3
BAe 146-300	1

In November 2006, the LTU average fleet age is 5 years old ^[3].
On April 20 LTU received its 12th long-haul jet a Airbus A330-200.The registration will be D-ALPI. In receiving this jet, LTU will introduce a new livery. LTU talks about ordering 4 Airbus A340-300 jets to expand its international routes.

External links

★ LTU

★ LTU International

★ LTU International Fleet

★ Deutsche Polarflug - operated by LTU

References

1. Directory: World Airlines
2. LTU base
3. LTU International Fleet Age