DE-4423467 Lufttransport Süd (LTU Süd) Boeing 757-200

LTU Süd no longer fly the skies.

Lufttransport Süd, or LTS, was an airline based in Munich and it flew from May 1984. Its parent company was LTU from Düsseldorf and this subsidiary, LTS was started in August 1983. LTS started with three Boeing 757s. Soon after its inception, the blue LTS logo and paintjob were changed to a white top/red bottom paintjob with LTU Süd logo in order to match more closely that of its parent company. At its peak, LTU Süd operated up to six 767-300s and thirteen 757-200s. All LTU Süd flights were always marketed as LTU flights. With the restructuring of LTU (the parent company), LTU Süd (as a business subsidiary on paper) was merged into its parent at around 1997 and ceased to exist. Air Berlin later acquired LTU.

This postcard came from Nadine (14 August 2015) Postcrossing.  It shows a Boeing 757-200 with LTU Süd livery.

The Boeing 757 is a mid-size, narrow-body twin-engine jet airliner that was designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the manufacturer's largest single-aisle passenger aircraft and was produced from 1981 to 2004. The twinjet has a two-crew member glass cockpit, turbofan engines of sufficient power to allow takeoffs from relatively short runways and higher altitudes, a conventional tail and, for reduced aerodynamic drag, a supercritical wing design. Intended to replace the smaller three-engine 727 on short and medium routes, the 757 can carry 200 to 295 passengers for a maximum of 3,150 to 4,100 nautical miles (5,830 to 7,590 km), depending on variant.

The 757 was produced in two fuselage lengths. The original 757-200 entered service in 1983; the 757-200PF, a package freighter (PF) variant, and the 757-200M, a passenger-freighter combi model, debuted in the late 1980s.