Rhein-Neckar Air GmbH, commonly known as RNA, is a German company that offers regional scheduled flights out of Mannheim City Airport. All flights are operated by the German airline MHS Aviation.[3]
History
After Cirrus Airlines ceased operations in 2012, Mannheim City Airport was left without any scheduled airline service. Although well connected to Frankfurt Airport, the local economy demanded the re-establishment of direct flight connections from the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region to other German cities. Rhein-Neckar Air was consequently founded as a LLC with the support of local companies such as SAP, Heidelberg Cement and Südzucker.[citation needed]
Operations commenced on 10 March 2014, offering weekday flights between Mannheim City Airport and Berlin Tegel Airport.[4][5][6] After a successful start, flights to Hamburg began later that year. Since 2016 RNA flies seasonally (April–October) to the island of Sylt, flights which were also offered from Münster/Osnabrück in 2016 and from Nuremberg in 2017;[7] however both routes since ceased. The network has since been seasonally expanded with flights to Usedom which was also served from Kassel as of 2022.[8]
According to the company 35,000 passengers used its service per year as of 2017, a figure that decreased to 22,000 by 2022.[1]
In April 2023, RNA announced it would not resume its sole remaining year-round scheduled service to Hamburg, which it had suspended in 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to insufficient booking numbers.[9]
Destinations
Current destinations
As of April 2023, Rhein-Neckar Air serves the following scheduled destinations:[2]