Cirrus Airlines is an airline based in Germany operating both charter and scheduled flights. The company employs around 450 people.

Code Data

• IATA Code: C9
• ICAO Code: RUS
• Callsign: Cirrus Air

History

Cirrus was founded in February 1995 as Cirrus Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH. Its home airport was Saarbrücken Airport. In March 1998, Cirrus Airlines received its licence to operate scheduled service between Saarbrücken and Hamburg. In August 1999, Cirrus took over the route from Mannheim to Berlin Tempelhof from Cosmos Air. An important step was taken in February 2000, upon the 5th anniversary of Cirrus Airlines, when it established a cooperative partnership with German owned Lufthansa and became a Team Lufthansa franchise member. In April that year, Cirrus received licences to operate regularly scheduled service between Mannheim and Hamburg and between Berlin and Sylt/Westerland. From 2001 onwards, Cirrus steadily expanded its business, with scheduled services opening between Saarbrücken and Berlin Tempelhof (March 2001), between Berlin Tempelhof and Usedom (May 2002), between Rostock Laage and Munich (May 2002), between Leipzig/Halle and Zurich (January 2003), between Leipzig/Halle and Hamburg (January 2003), between Dresden and Hamburg (March 2003), between Frankfurt and Skopje, Macedonia (April 2003), between Leipzig/Halle and Cologne (May 2003), between Frankfurt and Ohrid (June 2003), between Mannheim and Dresden (March 2004), between Dresden and Zürich (April 2004), between Mannheim and Olbia (May 2004) and between Munich and London City (May 2004).

Fleet

The Cirrus Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (at April 2005):

• 1 Boeing 737-500
• 1 Embraer ERJ-145
• 1 Embraer ERJ-170

Other aircraft include:

• 1 DHC Dash 8-300
• 1 DHC Dash 8-100
• 2 Dornier 328
• 1 Beech King-Air 200
• 1 Citation II
• 2 Lear Jet 60
• 1 Lear Jet 40

External Links

• Cirrus Airlines
• Cirrus Airlines Jet Fleet Detail