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 airplane. The airline was called to meeting with the civil authorities, and although the airline said that a group of people were responsible for a sabotage the previous night and had introduced the corpses into the aircraft, the crew was accused of traffic of corpses. After the session, the directors of the airline were condemned to 26 years of prison and the pilots, people in charge of operations and in-flight personnel were sentenced to 17 years of prison. Finally, the AOC of Aero León was removed in September 16 and the airline was closed 2 days later. A particular case