It operated regional scheduled and charter flights linking northern Germany to other parts of the country and Bremen to other European destinations.

[5] Soon later AGIV became the single shareholder of OLT and positioned the new CEO Christian Ulrich Baron von Kaltenborn-Stachau.

This unit (Emden operation) was sold then to AG EMS and OLT restart its old core activities under its own name.

[7] OLT announced on 4 August 2011 it would undergo major restructuring after losing its shuttle flights contract with Airbus Industries.

Effective October 2011 all Fokker and Saab aircraft operations would stop and 100 of its 120 employees were to leave the company.

The same week as the Contact Air purchase Amber Gold was reported to be experiencing financial difficulty and funding for the deal was in question.

[12] In August 2012 Dutch company Panta Holdings announced it was buying OLT Germany from Amber Gold and also finalised the purchase of Contact Air.

In December 2012 it was announced that the wet-lease contract with Swiss International Air Lines would not be renewed and was scheduled to conclude in March 2013.