Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! XL Airways Germany is a charter airline headquartered in Mörfelden-Walldorf, Hesse, Germany. It has a sister airline in France, XL Airways France. XL Airways Germany operates charter services and ad-hoc lease for other airlines. The airline was founded by Avion Group, Iceland, as Star XL German Airlines. On 3 May 2006, it received its own airline operator's certificate from Luftfahrtbundesamt. On 30 October 2006, members of the management bought-out the leisure business from Avion Group to form XL Leisure Group. The German airline became XL Airways Germany. The new XL branding was shared by XL Airways UK and XL Airways France. In 2007, XL Airways Germany carried around 200,000 passengers.