Editing Hapag-Lloyd Flug (section)

===Foundation and early years===
The original [[Hamburg America Line|HAPAG]] company first became involved in the aviation industry in 1910, sponsoring [[Zeppelin]] flights.
[[File:Hapag-Lloyd Boeing 737-2K5; D-AHLD, June 1988 AQB (4994409954).jpg|thumb|A Hapag-Lloyd [[Boeing 737-200]] in the original orange and blue livery that lasted for almost three decades.]]
[[File:Hapag-Lloyd_Airbus_A310-300_Verkuringen.jpg|thumb|Hapagfly [[Airbus A310-300]] wearing its old livery, 2004.]]
[[File:Hapagfly Boeing 737-800, D-AHFZ@ZRH,27.01.2007-449ef - Flickr - Aero Icarus.jpg|thumb|Hapagfly [[Boeing 737-800]] in its last livery, 2007.]]
Hapag-Lloyd Flug was established in July 1972, two years after HAPAG merged with [[Norddeutscher Lloyd]], when the Hapag-Lloyd shipping group bought a few [[Boeing 727]]s to fly its cruise passengers from [[Germany]] to the ports of call for the cruises. It began operations on 30 March 1973. With the boom of the holiday charter flight market in the 1970s, it quickly adopted charter flights to popular holiday destinations in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] area and the [[Canary Islands]] as well and soon became one of the biggest German charter airlines. Throughout the years, the airline added regular passenger flights to its schedule, as well as new airplanes, such as the [[Boeing 737-100]] and [[Airbus A310]] aircraft. In 1979, [[Bavaria Germanair]], a charter air carrier operating [[Airbus A300B4]] and [[British Aircraft Corporation]] [[BAC One-Eleven]] series 400 and 500 jets, was merged into Hapag-Lloyd Flug.

In 1998, it became the first airline in the world to adopt the [[Boeing 737-800]].