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DHL Aviation

{{primary sources|date=May 2024}}

{{Short description|Aviation division of DHL Express}}

{{Infobox airline

| airline = DHL Aviation

| logo = Dhl logo.svg

| image = Leipzig Halle Airport DHL Air Austria Boeing 757-223(PCF)(WL) OE-LNR (DSC04626).jpg

| image_upright = 1.15

| caption = A Boeing 757-200PCF of DHL Aviation

| IATA = Various

| ICAO = Various

| callsign = Various

| founded = {{start date and age|1969|||df=yes}}

| aoc =

| hubs = {{ubl|class=nowrap

| Bahrain

| Cincinnati

| East Midlands

| Hong Kong

| Leipzig/Halle

| London–Luton

| Milan–Malpensa

| Shanghai–Pudong}}

| focus_cities =

| frequent_flyer =

| fleet_size = 212

| destinations = 225

| parent = DHL

| headquarters = Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

| num_employees =

| website = {{URL|aviationcargo.dhl.com}}

}}

DHL Aviation is a division of logistics multinational DHL responsible for providing air transport capacity.

Overview

DHL Aviation is a group of airlines that are either owned, co-owned or chartered by DHL Express.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

DHL owns six main airlines to service various global regions:

  • European Air Transport Leipzig (EAT Leipzig) is responsible for the major part of the network for Europe, and for long-haul services to the Middle East and Africa. It operates a fleet of Boeing and Airbus freighters from its hub at the Leipzig/Halle Airport.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}
  • DHL Air UK (DHL Air), acquired by DHL in 1989, is based at East Midlands Airport. Since July 2000, it has operated a fleet of Boeing 757 Freighters on intra-European services and a fleet of Boeing 767 freighters, primarily on transatlantic routes.{{Cite web|url=https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2000-07-11-First-Boeing-757-Arrives-for-DHL-Freighter-Conversion-Program|title=First Boeing 757 Arrives for DHL Freighter Conversion Program|website=boeing.mediaroom.com|date=11 July 2000|accessdate=9 December 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.flightglobal.com/dhl-and-boeing-in-talks-over-40-more-757-200-freighters-/34506.article|title=DHL and Boeing in talks over 40 more 757-200 freighters|website=flightglobal.com|date=10 October 2000|accessdate=9 December 2021}}
  • DHL Aero Expreso is a subsidiary in the Central and South America Hub in Tocumen, Panamá, operating a fleet of Boeing 737-400, 757-200 and 767-300 freighters which also serve destinations in the Caribbean and Florida.
  • SNAS/DHL (DHL International) handles Middle East destinations from its headquarters and main regional hub at Bahrain International Airport, operating a fleet of Boeing 767 freighters.{{Cn|date=December 2024}} The fleet is deployed throughout the Middle East and in Africa.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}
  • Blue Dart Aviation is based at Chennai International Airport, India, with a fleet of Boeing 757 freighters. It provides services for DHL's Indian network and regional charters.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}
  • DHL Air Austria is based at Vienna International Airport, Austria, with a fleet of Boeing 757 freighters.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}

DHL owns the following smaller subsidiary airlines:{{cn|date=May 2024}}

{{As of|December 2007}} DHL had stakes in the following airlines, some of which also operate under the DHL brand or livery:{{cite web|url=http://investors.dpwn.de/en/investoren/publikationen/archiv/2008/finanzpublikationen/dpwn_participation_list_group_2007_hv.pdf |title=Participation list |access-date=7 November 2008|work=Annual Financial Statements|publisher=Deutsche Post AG |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207215232/http://investors.dpwn.de/en/investoren/publikationen/archiv/2008/finanzpublikationen/dpwn_participation_list_group_2007_hv.pdf|archive-date=7 December 2008}}

Former owned airlines:

  • Air Hong Kong sold the remaining 40% shares to Cathay Pacific Airways in July 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2101763/cathay-takes-full-control-freighter-air-hong-kong|title=Cathay takes full control of freighter Air Hong Kong|website=www.scmp.com|date=7 July 2017|accessdate=5 October 2022}}

Hubs

Brussels Airport was a main hub; when DHL planned expansion at Brussels Airport in October 2004, it created a political crisis in Belgium.{{Cite web|date=27 October 2004|title=DHL expansion controversy leads to strike|url=http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2004/10/feature/be0410301f.htm|access-date=14 March 2014|publisher=Eurofound.europa.eu}}

In March 2021, DHL Aviation announced the relocation of one of its main hub operations from Bergamo to Milan Malpensa Airport, where it opened new logistics facilities.{{cite web|url=https://www.airliners.de/dhl-italien-bergamo-malpensa/59881|title=DHL finds new home in Italy|website=airliners.de|date=25 March 2021|accessdate=25 March 2021}}

Fleet

{{Multiple image

| align =

| direction = vertical

| total_width = 220

| image1 = D-AEAG DHL (European Air Transport - EAT) (6872540344).jpg

| caption1 = A DHL Airbus A300-600RF operated by EAT Leipzig.

| image2 = D-ALEJ Airbus A330F of EAT Leipzig (50047999421).jpg

| caption2 = A DHL Airbus A330-200F operated by EAT Leipzig.

| image3 = ATR 42-300(F), DHL de Guatemala JP7460907.jpg

| caption3 = A DHL ATR 42-320F operated by DHL de Guatemala.

| image4 = Kalitta Air Boeing 747-400F; N740CK@HKG;31.07.2011 614gy (6052603355).jpg

| caption4 = A DHL Boeing 747-400BCF operated by Kalitta Air.

| image5 = DHL (European Air Transport Leipzig - EAT) Boeing 757 Zammit.jpg

| caption5 = A DHL Boeing 757-200PCF operated by EAT Leipzig.

| image6 = DHL Boeing 767-200 N798AX at Miami Intl. Airport (KMIA-MIA) (8509982503).jpg

| caption6 = A DHL Boeing 767-200BDSF operated by ABX Air.

| image7 = Boeing 767-300F - DHL (Tasman Cargo Airlines).jpg

| caption7 = A DHL Boeing 767-300F operated by Tasman Cargo Airlines.

| image8 = Southern Air Boeing 777-FZB N775SA.jpg

| caption8 = A DHL Boeing 777F now operated by Atlas Air.

}}

{{As of|2025|4}}, the DHL Aviation fleet consists of the following aircraft:{{Cn|date=December 2024}}

class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; text-align:center"

|+ DHL Aviation fleet

Aircraft

!colspan=2|In
service

!Orders

!Operator

!Notes

rowspan="3" |ATR 42-300F

| rowspan="3" |3

|1

| rowspan="3" |—

|Trans Am Aero Express del Ecuador

| rowspan="3" |

1

|DHL de Guatemala

1

|Vensecar Internacional

ATR 72-500F

|4

|4

|—

|Solenta Aviation Gabon

|

rowspan="4" |Airbus A300-600RF

| rowspan="4" |36

|1

| rowspan="4" |—

|Solinair

| rowspan="4" |

2

|Air Hong Kong

align="center" |6

| align="center" |ASL Airlines Ireland

align="center" |27

| align="center" |European Air Transport Leipzig

Airbus A321-200PCF

|1

|1

|—

|Levu Air Cargo

|{{Cite web |date=16 February 2022 |title=EFW bags six A321P2Fs order from SmartLynx |url=https://www.aircargonews.net/services/freighter-conversions-mro/efw-bags-six-a321p2fs-order-from-smartlynx/ |access-date=16 February 2022 |website=www.aircargonews.net}}

rowspan="3" |Airbus A330-200F

| rowspan="3" |7

|2

| rowspan="3" |—

|Air Hong Kong

| rowspan="3" |

align="center" |4

| align="center" |European Air Transport Leipzig

1

|ASL Airlines Ireland

rowspan="2" |Airbus A330-300P2F

| rowspan="2" |12

| align="center" |2

| rowspan="2" align="center" |—

|European Air Transport Leipzig

| rowspan="2" |

10

|Air Hong Kong

Boeing 737-300SF

|1

|1

|—

|Aeronaves TSM

|

rowspan="6" |Boeing 737-400SF

| rowspan="6" |10

|1

| rowspan="6" |—

|Allied Air

| rowspan="5" |

align="center" |1

| align="center" |Air Ghana

2

|Cargoair

1

|Aeronaves TSM

2

|Kalitta Charters II

align="center" |3

| align="center" |Swiftair

|One crashed as Swiftair Flight 5960.

Boeing 737-800SF

|1

| align="center" |1

| align="center" |—

| align="center" |Cargoair

|

rowspan="2" |Boeing 737-800BCF

| rowspan="2" |4

| align="center" |2

| rowspan="2" align="center" |—

| align="center" |Texel Air

| rowspan="2" |

2

|Blue Dart Aviation

rowspan="3" |Boeing 737-800BDSF

| rowspan="3" |12

|6

| rowspan="3" |—

|Swiftair

| rowspan="3" |{{Cn|date=December 2024}}

4

|Kalitta Charters II

2

|ASL Airlines Ireland

Boeing 747-8F

|4

| align="center" |4

| align="center" |—

| align="center" |Polar Air Cargo

|

Boeing 757-200SF

|5

|align=center|5

|align=center|—

|align=center|DHL Air UK

|

rowspan="4" |Boeing 757-200PCF

| rowspan="4" |30

|4

| rowspan="4" |—

|DHL Aero Expreso

| rowspan="4" |One crashed as DHL de Guatemala flight 7216.

1

|Blue Dart Aviation

7

|European Air Transport Leipzig

18

|DHL Air Austria

rowspan="2" |Boeing 767-200BDSF

| rowspan="2" |4

| align="center" |1

| rowspan="2" align="center" |—

| align="center" |21 Air

| rowspan="2" |

align="center" |3

| align="center" |ABX Air

rowspan="2" |Boeing 767-300F

| rowspan="2" |6

|3

| rowspan="2" |—

|DHL Air UK

| rowspan="2" |

3

|Tasman Cargo Airlines

rowspan="3" |Boeing 767-300BCF

| rowspan="3" |16

| align="center" |5

| rowspan="3" |—

| align="center" |DHL Air UK

| rowspan="3" |

6

|DHL Aero Expreso

5

|DHL International Aviation ME

rowspan="6" |Boeing 767-300BDSF

| rowspan="6" |24

|1

| rowspan="6" |—

|DHL Air UK

| rowspan="6" |

2

|Cargojet Airways

3

|DHL Air Austria

4

|21 Air

5

|DHL International Aviation

9

|ABX Air

rowspan="6" |Boeing 777F

| rowspan="6" |32

| align="center" |2

| rowspan="6" align="center" |—

| align="center" |Polar Air Cargo

| rowspan="6" |{{cite web|title=DHL Express Places New Order for Six Additional 777 Freighters|url=https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2022-03-08-DHL-Express-Places-New-Order-for-Six-Additional-777-Freighters|work=The Boeing Company|date=March 8, 2022|access-date=March 8, 2022}}

5

|Kalitta Air

5

|Singapore Airlines

align="center" |7

| align="center" |DHL Air UK

11

|AeroLogic

2

|Central Airlines

Boeing 777-200LR/MF

|—

|—

|9

|Mammoth Freighters

|Deliveries to commence in 2024.{{Cite web|title=Mammoth Freighters now aims for 2024 certification|url=https://www.aircargonews.net/airlines/freighter-operator/mammoth-freighters-now-aims-for-2024-certification/|website=www.aircargonews.net|date=21 April 2023|access-date=23 April 2023}}{{needs update|date=January 2025}}

Eviation Alice

|—

|—

|12

|DHL International Aviation ME

|Deliveries to commence in 2024.{{Cite web|title=DHL EXPRESS SHAPES FUTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE AVIATION WITH THE ORDER OF FIRST-EVER ALL-ELECTRIC CARGO PLANES FROM EVIATION|url=https://www.dhl.com/global-en/home/press/press-archive/2021/dhl-express-shapes-future-for-sustainable-aviation-with-the-order-of-first-ever-all-electric-cargo-planes-from-eviation.html|url-status=live|website=DHL|date=3 August 2021|access-date=4 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803165351/https://www.dhl.com/global-en/home/press/press-archive/2021/dhl-express-shapes-future-for-sustainable-aviation-with-the-order-of-first-ever-all-electric-cargo-planes-from-eviation.html|archive-date=3 August 2021}}{{needs update|date=January 2025}}

Total

!colspan=2|212

!21

!colspan=2|

Accidents and incidents

  • In 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, collided with DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757-200 cargo jet at {{convert|35000|ft|m|abbr=on}} over Überlingen, Germany. All 69 passengers on board the Bashkiran flight (consisting mainly of Russian schoolchildren) and the two pilots of DHL were killed.{{Cite web |last=PlaneCrashInfo.com |title=Information regarding the air accident |url=http://www.planecrashinfo.com/2002/2002-38.htm |access-date=2015-08-10}}{{Cite web |last=AirDisaster.com |title=Information regarding the air accident |url=http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/view_details.cgi?date=07012002®=RA-85816&airline=Bashkirian+Airlines |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228171058/http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/view_details.cgi?date=07012002®=RA-85816&airline=Bashkirian+Airlines |archive-date=2014-02-28 |url-status=usurped |access-date=2015-08-10}}
  • The DHL shootdown incident in Baghdad on 22 November 2003 wherein Iraqi insurgents fired an SA-7 "Grail" surface-to-air missile at a European Air Transport Airbus A300 operating on behalf of DHL Aviation. The aircraft took off from Baghdad airport whereupon the missile struck the left wing, disabling all three hydraulic systems and set the wing on fire. The aircraft began a dangerous phugoid (vertical oscillation) but the crew managed to land safely at the airport, despite only being able to control the aircraft by adjusting the engine thrust.{{Cite web |last=Flight Safety |title=DHL |url=http://www.flightsafety.org/citations/dhl_cit.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505001324/http://www.flightsafety.org/citations/dhl_cit.html |archive-date=May 5, 2008 |access-date=2008-10-31}}
  • On 18 March 2010, Exin Flight 3589, a DHL Antonov An-26 aircraft made an emergency landing on the frozen Lake Ülemiste, close to Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport. Initial reports indicated problems with the landing gear and one of the engines. The flight was operated by Exin on behalf of DHL. The aircraft involved was SP-FDO and the flight departed from Helsinki Airport. One of the six crew members was injured.{{cite web |title=ESIB Final report {{!}} SP-FDO AN-26B |url=https://ojk.ee/en/system/files/fail/manus/final_accident_investigation_report_sp-fdo_tallinn_18.03.2010_0.pdf |publisher= Estonian Safety Investigation Bureau (ESIB) |access-date=12 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602203227/https://ojk.ee/en/system/files/fail/manus/final_accident_investigation_report_sp-fdo_tallinn_18.03.2010_0.pdf |archive-date=2 June 2020 |language=English}}{{cite web |title=Spill threatens Estonian capital's water |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna35934245 |website=NBC news |access-date=12 April 2024 |language=English |date=19 March 2010 }}
  • On 13 February 2021, the cargo door of DHL Air UK Flight 126, Boeing 757-200 freighter registered G-DHKZ, opened at an altitude of approximately {{convert|5300|ft|m|abbr=on}} after the aircraft departed from Leipzig/Halle Airport. Airframe parts fell on the grounds of a power plant approximately {{convert|10|nmi|mi km|abbr=on}} from the airport, but no cargo was lost, and the flight crew was able to return to Leipzig/Halle with no injuries. The incident is under investigation.{{cite web |author1=Simon Hradecky |title=Accident: DHL B752 at Leipzig on Feb 13th 2021, cargo door opened in flight |url=https://avherald.com/h?article=4e2fd449 |publisher=The Aviation Herald |website=avherald.com|access-date=12 April 2024 |language=English }}
  • On 7 April 2022, DHL de Guatemala Flight 7216, a Boeing 757-27A (PCF), crash landed in San Jose, Costa Rica after attempting an emergency landing due to a hydraulic failure. Both crew members survived without injuries.{{cite web |author1=Simon Hradecky |title=Accident: DHL Expreso B752 at San Jose on Apr 7th 2022, hydraulic failure results in runway excursion |url=https://avherald.com/h?article=4f719c2d |website=avherald.com |publisher=The Aviation Herald |access-date=12 April 2024 |language=English }}
  • On 25 November 2024, Swiftair Flight 5960, a Boeing 737-476F, crashed into a house near Vilnius Airport in Vilnius, Lithuania. Out of the four occupants onboard, one died while two others were injured.{{cite news |title=Vilniuje netoli oro uosto nukrito krovininis lėktuvas: žuvo mažiausiai vienas žmogus |url=https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/verslas/4/2422029/vilniuje-netoli-oro-uosto-nukrito-krovininis-lektuvas |language=lt |access-date=25 November 2024 |publisher=LRT |date=25 November 2023}}{{Cite web |title=Accident Boeing 737-476(SF) EC-MFE, Monday 25 November 2024 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/462773 |access-date=2024-11-25 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}}

See also

References

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External links

  • {{commons category-inline|DHL Aviation}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20121220124840/http://www.dhl.com/en/about_us/express.html#aviations DHL Express Division - Aviations]

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