Deutsche Lufthansa AG is an aviation company with global operations and a total of more than 400 subsidiaries and associated companies. The Company is engaged in passenger transport, airfreight and airline services. The Lufthansa Group operates in five major business segments: scheduled passenger air traffic (Passenger Airline Group) consists of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Lufthansa CityLine GmbH, Swiss International Airlines AG (SWISS), Austrian Airlines AG, British Midland Ltd., Air Dolomiti S.p.A., Eurowings Luftverkehrs AG and Germanwings GmbH; scheduled airfreight services (Logistics) consists of the Lufthansa Cargo group; maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) consists of the Lufthansa Technik group; information technology (IT Services) consists of the Lufthansa Systems group, and catering (Catering) consists of the LSG Lufthansa Sky Chefs group.
Passenger transportation is the core business of the Company. The business segment Passenger Airline Group includes Lufthansa Passenger Airlines, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, British Midland (bmi), Germanwings and the equity investments in Brussels Airlines, JetBlue and SunExpress. The route network covers 206 destinations in 82 countries. Its main hubs are in Frankfurt and Munich. During the year ended December 31, 2010, its SWISS served 72 destinations in 39 countries from its hub Zurich and from airports in Basel, Geneva and Lugano. Austrian Airlines AG consists of three airlines: Austrian Airlines, Lauda Air and Tyrolean Airways. The bmi group consists of three airlines: British Midland International, bmi Regional and bmibaby, which each cover different markets and customer groups. British Midland International is a classical airline and its route network covers destinations in its domestic the United Kingdom market, Europe, the CIS states, the Middle East and Africa from London Heathrow. Germanwings offers flights from its five locations, Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart, Berlin- Schonefeld, Hanover and Dortmund, to 75 European destinations.