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Cimber A/S is a Danish airline headquartered in Sønderborg and based at Copenhagen Airport. It flies exclusively for Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) on an ACMI contract. Cimber used to be an SAS subsdiary but has been sold to CityJet in early 2017.
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History
When Cimber Sterling on 3 May 2012 went bankrupt, the airline was flying up to 30 daily departures to destinations primary in Northern and Eastern Europe from Copenhagen Airport, on behalf of Scandinavian Airlines, with four Bombardier CRJ-200. This arrangement was extended by the curator, law firm Kromann Reumert, to 16 May, as it was profitable.
On 16 May, it was published that several parts of the bankruptcy estate from Cimber Sterling was sold, hereby the ACMI contract with Scandinavian Airlines. The buyers of the contract was the former key people of Cimber Sterling, Jørgen Nielsen (son of the Cimber Air founder Ingolf Nielsen), the former juridical director Alex Dyrgaard, and the former CEO of the airline Jacob Krogsgaard. The deal included 114 employees would continue in Cimber A/S. At the same time, Scandinavian Airlines and Cimber A/S signed an extension of the agreement, valid till the summer 2014. Cimber had no plans of flying under own name, but will only operate for other airlines. Cimber began with a share capital of DKK 600,000.
In September 2014, Cimber announced the shutdown of its operations by March 2015 as Scandinavian Airlines as their single customer would not renew their contracts. But in December 2014, Scandinavian Airlines announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Cimber for DKK20m ($3.3).Scandinavian Airlines plans to transfer 12 CRJ900 aircraft to Cimber to operate from Copenhagen Airport and to continue with the Cimber's previous plans to retire its ATR 72 and CRJ200 aircraft.
In January 2017, SAS reached an agreement with CityJet whereby CityJet buys Cimber but will continue to operate flights on behalf of SAS.
Destinations
Cimber does not operate any routes under its own brand. All flights are conducted on behalf of Scandinavian Airlines within their regional and European route network.
Fleet
The Cimber fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2016):