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Arcus-Air
Arcus-Air GmbH & Co. KG is an airline based in Troisdorf, Germany, operating chartered cargo and corporate flights out of Mannheim City Airport.
History.
The airline was established in 1973. It offered scheduled passenger flights from Mannheim to Oberpfaffenhofen in the 1980s and to Leipzig and Dresden in the early 1990s, following the German Reunification. In 1997, Arcus-Air Logistic set up a subsidiary named "Cosmos Air", which operated scheduled flights from Mannheim to Berlin and London, using the
demand. Besides cargo flights the airline added three weekly passenger flights to Leipzig and Dresden in 1991. In 1997 Cosmos Air (Arcus-Air Logistic) was founded in Mannheim and started nonstop flights to Berlin Tempelhof Airport and London City Airport using the larger Dornier Do 328 turboprop. Due to lack of demand, the London route was suspended one year later.
Up until that time, a provisional container building had been used as the terminal, but new facilities opened in 1998. In 1999 Cosmos Air was taken over by