OLT Express Germany (Bremen Hans Koschnick) has now detailed its plans to massively cut its operations from German regional airports from early January 2013 with plans to cut up to five of its ten F100 from the fleet. It will permanently cancel its routes from Dresden to Budapest and London Southend, from Münster/Osnabrück to Berlin Schönefeld, Milan Malpensa, Paris CDG and Stuttgart as well as from Saarbrücken to Hamburg, London Southend and Vienna. It will also temporarily not serve Vienna from Dresden, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and Münster/Osnabrück until the end of March. With its remaining fleet of five Fokker 100s, four Saab 2000s and a single Saab 340A, OLT will continue to operate from its home base Bremen to Copenhagen Kastrup, Toulouse Blagnac and Zurich, from Dresden to Hamburg and Zurich, from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden to Hamburg and from both Münster/Osnabrück and Saarbrücken to Munich. OLT has also announced at the same time, that partner Swiss (LX, Zurich) has no longer extended the wet-lease agreement for two Fokker 100s and that EADS has terminated its sales and distribution agreement with OLT from the end of 2012. OLT had provided IT services to EADS for several years for corporate shuttle flights between Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) and Eurocopter (Marseilles) factory locations but has now lost this contract to Germania (Berlin Schönefeld) (which had previously already won the charter agreement for the most important of these shuttle routes between Hamburg Finkenwerder and Toulouse Blagnac from OLT).
OLT Express details major network/fleet cuts
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