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LGW is a German regional airline officially known as Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter mbH. The Dortmund based airline transported about 50,000 passengers in 2003 and the expected sales is 13 million Euro in 2004. Altogether the company has approximately 75 employees, who are working in the parts flight operations, maintenance, ground operations, booking-center, flight-school and administration.^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Services 4 Fleet 5 External links 6 References

• IATA Code: HE
• ICAO Code: LGW
• Callsign: Walter ^[1]

The company was founded by German pilot instructor Bernd Walter, who still is the owner and CEO of LGW, at Dortmund Wickede Airport in 1980. At the outset the small company offered flights to German North Sea islands, sightseeing-flights and flight-training with a single Cessna U 206 "Stationair". In 1988 LGW expanded with buying a Britten-Norman Islander for the North Sea flights.^{[citation needed]}

After German reunification LGW was one of the first German airlines which started flights from West Germany to the former German Democratic Republic. LGW connected with Cessna 404 Dortmund with Berlin, Erfurt and other cities in former East Germany. As of 1992 the fleet was replaced by Dornier Do 228. In the meantime LGW took up new routes (e.g. from/to Hanover, Paderborn/Lippstadt or Rostock/Laage) and has become one of the biggest regional airlines in North Rhine-Westphalia. In recent years LGW took over many routes, which was left by other airlines, e.g. the route Dortmund-Nuremberg (in 2002, ex. Eurowings), Dortmund-Stuttgart (in 2003, ex. European Air Express) and Dortmund-Berlin-Tempelhof (in 2004, ex. City Air Germany).^{[citation needed]}

Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter is based at Dortmund Airport in Dortmund (North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany. It has also one aircraft based at Düsseldorf International Airport and one based at Cologne Bonn Airport, too. LGW is the dominate regional airline at Dortmund Airport with daily flights to Berlin-Tempelhof, Dresden, Leipzig/Halle, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, in summer period also to Westerland/Sylt. The passengers of LGW are mainly businessmen.^{[citation needed]} Destinations served:

• From/to Dortmund
  • Berlin-Tempelhof
  • Dresden
  • Leipzig/Halle
  • Nuremberg
  • Stuttgart
  • Westerland/Sylt

• From/to Düsseldorf
  • Erfurt
  • Westerland/Sylt

• From/to Cologne/Bonn
  • Erfurt
  • Westerland/Sylt

• From/to Erfurt
  • Cologne/Bonn
  • Düsseldorf
  • Hamburg

As of August 2006 the LGW fleet includes ^[2] :

• 5 Dornier Do 228-200
• 1 Dornier Do 228-100

Used for all domestic and charter flights.

Other aircraft:

• 2 Cessna 172

Used for sightseeing-flights around Dortmund, Flight training and pilot-charter.

• 2 Cessna 152

Used for Flight training and pilot-charter.

• Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter

1. ^ Airline Codes November 2006
2. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006