2006 - Acquired full ownership over
Dragonair (rebranded to Cathay Dragon in 2016), which continued to operate as a separate airline until 2020, when it was folded into Cathay Pacific
1997 - Bought by the holding company for
ValuJet Airlines, the holding company merged their ValuJet airline into AirTran thus keeping the AirTran name.
2010 - Bought by
Southwest Airlines, AirTran fleet transferred to Southwest and thereby AirTran becomes an inactive subsidiary.
1925 - First incorporated as Western Air Express by Harris Hanshue
1926 - Western's first flight took place
1928 - Reincorporated as Western Air Express Corp.
1930 - Purchased Standard Airlines (subsidiary of Aero Corp. of Ca. founded in 1926). WAE with Fokker aircraft merged with Transcontinental Air Transport
T-A-T to form Transcontinental & Western Air
T&WA.
1934 - Western Air Express broke off from Transcontinental & Western Air
T&WA and briefly changed its name to General Air Lines, returning to the name Western Air Express after several months
1941 - Western Air Express changed its name to Western Air Lines, which was later altered to Western Airlines
1955 - Created Deutsche Flugdienst GmbH in conjunction with other companies and subsequently owned 25.81% of it
1959 - Increased its shares in Deutsche Flugdienst to 95.5%. In 1961 Deutsche Flugdienst bought "Condor-Luftreederei“ renaming itself then "Condor Flugdienst GmbH"
1989 - Created SunExpress Airlines as a joint venture with Turkish Airlines
1995 - Transferred SunExpress shares over to Condor
1999 - Purchased 26% of Air Dolomiti
2003 - upped its stake to 51.9% (April) and then 100% (November) of Air Dolomiti
2006 - Lufthansa sold its remaining 50% stake in Condor to KarstadtQuelle AG
2007 - In conjunction with the sale of Condor, LH took back its shares of SunExpress
2005-2007 - Purchased Swiss Int'l Airlines
2008 - Purchased Austrian Airlines
2008 - Purchased BMI (Sold in 2011 to IAG (British Airways))
2008 - Acquired 45% of Brussels Airlines
2008 - Purchased 19% of Jetblue
2009 - Acquired 100% of Germanwings
2016 - Acquired remaining 55% of Brussels Airlines
2006 - Acquired full ownership over
Dragonair (rebranded to Cathay Dragon in 2016), which continued to operate as a separate airline until 2020, when it was folded into Cathay Pacific
1997 - Bought by the holding company for
ValuJet Airlines, the holding company merged their ValuJet airline into AirTran thus keeping the AirTran name.
2010 - Bought by
Southwest Airlines, AirTran fleet transferred to Southwest and thereby AirTran becomes an inactive subsidiary.
1925 - First incorporated as Western Air Express by Harris Hanshue
1926 - Western's first flight took place
1928 - Reincorporated as Western Air Express Corp.
1930 - Purchased Standard Airlines (subsidiary of Aero Corp. of Ca. founded in 1926). WAE with Fokker aircraft merged with Transcontinental Air Transport
T-A-T to form Transcontinental & Western Air
T&WA.
1934 - Western Air Express broke off from Transcontinental & Western Air
T&WA and briefly changed its name to General Air Lines, returning to the name Western Air Express after several months
1941 - Western Air Express changed its name to Western Air Lines, which was later altered to Western Airlines
1955 - Created Deutsche Flugdienst GmbH in conjunction with other companies and subsequently owned 25.81% of it
1959 - Increased its shares in Deutsche Flugdienst to 95.5%. In 1961 Deutsche Flugdienst bought "Condor-Luftreederei“ renaming itself then "Condor Flugdienst GmbH"
1989 - Created SunExpress Airlines as a joint venture with Turkish Airlines
1995 - Transferred SunExpress shares over to Condor
1999 - Purchased 26% of Air Dolomiti
2003 - upped its stake to 51.9% (April) and then 100% (November) of Air Dolomiti
2006 - Lufthansa sold its remaining 50% stake in Condor to KarstadtQuelle AG
2007 - In conjunction with the sale of Condor, LH took back its shares of SunExpress
2005-2007 - Purchased Swiss Int'l Airlines
2008 - Purchased Austrian Airlines
2008 - Purchased BMI (Sold in 2011 to IAG (British Airways))
2008 - Acquired 45% of Brussels Airlines
2008 - Purchased 19% of Jetblue
2009 - Acquired 100% of Germanwings
2016 - Acquired remaining 55% of Brussels Airlines