Contact Air (Stuttgart Manfred Rommel) will shortly add an eighth ex-Mandarin Airlines (AE/Taichung) Fokker 100. It will retire its five remaining ATR 42-500s as its main customer Lufthansa (LH/Frankfurt Intl) is no longer planning to use 50 seat aircraft on its network. 40 pilots and 40 flight attendants will lose their jobs later this year as a result.