Airline-dle
Puzzle #84 was Germanwings.
Germanwings GmbH was a German low-cost airline wholly owned by Lufthansa from January 2009 which operated under the Eurowings brand. It was based in Cologne with hubs at Cologne Bonn Airport, Stuttgart Airport, Hamburg Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport, and Munich Airport. Further bases were at Hannover Airport and Dortmund Airport.
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What the record says
Puzzle 84 ran on 3 Oct 2026 and the answer was Germanwings, played with 6 guesses against 5 columns. On the record: Country - Germany; Region - Europe; Status - defunct; Alliance - Star Alliance. The numbers: Founded - 1990.
Beyond the grid the record adds Callsign - GERMAN WINGS; Codes - 4U / GWI; Ceased operations - 2020.
Airline-dle builds its record from OpenFlights - Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 and Wikidata - CC0 1.0 (region, founding decade, alliance, hub, headquarters). The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: English Wikipedia summary excerpt, CC BY-SA 4.0. The puzzle itself is still playable in the archive, and every answer that has been and gone is listed on the past-answers page.
How it scored
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- defunct
- Founded
- 1990
- Alliance
- Star Alliance
Also on the record
- Callsign
- GERMAN WINGS
- Codes
- 4U / GWI
- Ceased operations
- 2020