Borussia Dortmund and Eurowings will continue to fly side by side: This year’s Champions League finalist and Germany’s largest leisure airline are extending their long-standing partnership (since 2016) for another two years.
A key component of the contract extension is a newly designed Airbus A320 aircraft in Borussia Dortmund’s club colours. Starting next season, it will accompany the Black & Yellows to numerous away matches in the UEFA Champions League and the Bundesliga and bring them home again. The so-called ‘team airbus 2.0’ is set to return to the Eurowings fleet at the start of 2025: just in time for the BVB professionals’ next assault on Europe’s football throne – and then in a new, exciting design.
The first version of the team airbus, which celebrated its premiere in July 2016, attracted attention and caused a furor far beyond the football scene. The BVB airbus, completely decked out in black and yellow, was a real highlight every time it arrived at an airport – and at times was the most photographed aircraft in Europe. A ‘club change’ of the jet from Eurowings to the Lufthansa fleet required a new livery at the end of 2022 – and thus a temporary break for the team Airbus.
Nevertheless, BVB and Eurowings remained in the air together: Eurowings was the first airline in the world to dedicate its own aircraft to football fans in 2022: the fan airbus – an A320 jet in a special black and yellow livery – has been flying BVB fans to all sporting destinations in Europe ever since. BVB fans were actively involved in the design of the fan airbus in advance. They had a say in deciding which favourite moments and personalities from BVB’s history should be immortalised on the aircraft.