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Hapagfly (former name: ''Hapag-Lloyd Flug'') is an Airline based in Hanover, Germany . It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights, mainly to holiday resorts in Europe . Hapagfly is a part of the largest leisure fleet in Europe: together with six other airlines which are linked together by the family brand TUIfly , which is a part of the TUI Group , the largest tourism group in Europe. TUIfly groups Arkefly (Holland), Jetairfly (Belgium), HLX.com (Germany), Britanniafly (Sweden), Corsairfly (France) and Thomsonfly (United Kingdom) with a fleet of more than hundred aircraft. Its main base is Hanover/Langenhagen International Airport , with hubs at Nuremberg Airport and Stuttgart Airport . HISTORY The original HAPAG company first became involved in the aviation industry in 1910 , sponsoring Zeppelin flights. Hapag-Lloyd Flug was established in July 1972 when the Hapag-Lloyd shipping group bought a few Boeing 727 s to fly its cruise passengers from Germany to the cruises' ports of call. It started operations on 30 March 1973 . Through the years, the airline has added some regular passenger flights to its schedule, as well as new airplanes, such as the Boeing 737 and Airbus aircraft. Since 1997 it has been a subsidiary of TUI AG , which also includes the Hapag-Lloyd cargo container line and cruise line. In 2002 the airline was joined by a sister, Hapag-Lloyd Express , a low-fare, high-frequency airline, famous for its planes painted in the same colors as Taxis . In November . As a result all the airlines under TUIfly were rebranded with the name best known in their local market or the name of the principal tour operator for which they operated flights. All the airlines, with the exception of HLX.com, acquired the suffix "-fly" and had their aircraft repainted in the light blue TUI colours with red TUI logo. INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS , an Airbus A310 flying from Khania to Hannover , was involved in a highly mediatized incident, after suffering fuel starvation caused in part by a faulty landing gear. All 150 people aboard survived the crash landing in Vienna . SERVICES Hapagfly operates services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Agadir , Alicante , Almería , Antalya , Basel / Mulhouse , Cairo , Catania , Faro , Fuerteventura , Funchal , Hurghada , Jerez De La Frontera , Lanzarote , Las Palmas De Gran Canaria , Luxor , Málaga , Marsa Alam , Palma De Mallorca , Paphos , Santa Cruz De La Palma , Sharm El-Sheikh , Tel Aviv , Tenerife and Thessaloniki . FLEET The Hapag-Lloyd fleet consists of the following aircraft (at April 2006 ):
In March 2006, Hapagfly fleet age is 6.5 years old.
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