page_title: German Airways
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: German Airways / History
caption_attribution_description: &#160;Switzerland, &#32;Canton of Zürich, spotting along runway 14 at Zurich International Airport
context_page_description: German Airways Fluggesellschaft mbH, operating as German Airways and formerly named Luftfahrgesellschaft Walter or LGW for short, was a German regional airline headquartered in Düsseldorf.
  Originally LGW was an independent provider of scheduled and chartered low-volume passenger flights. After years of cooperation with Air Berlin, it eventually became a subsidiary of Air Berlin in 2017. After the collapse of Air Berlin it was purchased by Lufthansa in October 2017 and became a unit of the group's low-cost carrier Eurowings. Zeitfracht Group completed the purchase of LGW from Lufthansa on 1 April 2019 and renamed it in early 2020. The contract with Eurowings was terminated in April 2020 and LGW filed for insolvency.
caption: An LGW De Havilland Dash 8-400 operated for Air Berlin in 2011
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