Hapag-Lloyd market was planned in 2004. As part of that process, its business units other than the container line and cruise line were planned for divestiture. In 2008 TUI announced an intention to sell its entire stake in Hapag-Lloyd shipping activities before the end of that year. Industry speculation predicted a sale price of approximately $US5.9 billion. Hapag-Lloyd founded the charter airline Hapag-Lloyd Flug in 1972, buying a few Boeing 727s to fly its cruise passengers from Germany to the cruises' ports of call. The airline eventually added some regular passenger flights as well. Hapag-Lloyd Flug used the IATA code HF
Aero León a depressurization problem and had an emergency landing. After landing, the cattle were found dead, due to the temperature descending to subfreezing levels by the depressurization; after an investigation, DGAC found several maintenance failures in the fleet of Aero León. The airline was suspended on May 21. However, the airline renewed its papers, gave a massive maintenance to the fleet and returned to fly in June 10, when their AOC was returned. In July 28, the airline suffered another incident after one airplane had an emergency landing at Mexico City. An investigation found more than 36 human corpses in the