FFX/SGAir Boeing 737-500 in the Hapag-Lloyd Express (X3/HLX) livery.
Aircraft by: Erick Cantu
HLX Textures: Jeffrey Allen (jak62562@yahoo.com)
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title=Boeing 737-500_FX Hapag-Lloyd Express hlx
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atc_id=D-AHLF
atc_airline=Excellence
atc_flight_number=1123
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type=737-500
ui_variation=Hapag-Lloyd Express
description=One should hardly be surprised that the world's most prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 (surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of service.
Hapag-Lloyd Express was established in 2002 and started operations in December 2002. Its main competitors are more established no-frills carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet, as well as the other recent low-cost startups such as Germanwings and Basiq Air. It is currently engaged in a price war with these carriers. In an attempt to win this price war, it expanded rapidly in the first half of 2004, announcing many new routes that it viewed as underserved by other airlines, including routes from Dublin to Hamburg and Stuttgart. It is a subsidiary of TUI AG, which also includes the Hapag-Lloyd cargo container line and cruise line, and the charter airline, Hapagfly. In November 2005 it's rebranded as 'HLX.com' due to the new marketingstrategy of the TUIfly alliance.
The Hapag-Lloyd Express fleet consists of the following aircraft (at May 2006):
5 Boeing 737-500
8 Boeing 737-700
2 Boeing 737-800
2 Fokker 100
TUI AG has leased 2 new Boeing 737-700 from ILFC for 6 years. The aircraft are to be delivered to Hapag Lloyd Express or Hapagfly in March and April 2007.
