The airline Eurowings will celebrate its 1th anniversary on February 2023, 30. The carrier was founded on February 1, 1993 from the merger of NFD, founded by Hans Rudolf Wöhrl, and RFG, founded by Reinhard Santer. The name "Eurowings" came from an employee who won an ideas competition and received 500 German marks at the time. The logo introduced at the time of the company's founding was designed by students from the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts. The airline started out with almost 1.000 employees and ATR 72 turboprop aircraft. Although 32 destinations in eleven countries were already served in the year of its founding, the focus was on domestic German connections. For a long time, Eurowings had to fly under the flight numbers of NFD and RFG, because the code required by Eurowings had been assigned by the international aviation organization IATA to a subsidiary of "Janlyn PTE" based in Papua New Guinea. Through intensive negotiations, the company finally managed to obtain the EW code for its own flights. The first flight, number EW733, flew from Nuremberg to Paris in 1994. In the 90s, Eurowings took over feeder flights for the Dutch airline KLM and – initially as a competitor to Lufthansa – was temporarily flying to Amsterdam with 13 aircraft. The year 2001 marked a milestone in Eurowings' history. With the involvement of the Lufthansa Group, the company's strategy changed: the turboprop aircraft were replaced by CRJ jets and Eurowings operated flights as part of Lufthansa Regional. With Germanwings, Eurowings launched a low-cost airline pioneer for Germany just one year later, operating in tandem with