Aéromaritime
| Aéromaritime | |
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| IATA code : | OV |
| ICAO code : | QKL |
| Call sign : | AEROMAR |
| Founding: | 1966 |
| Operation stopped: | 1991 |
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Paris , France
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| Home airport : | Le Bourget Airport |
| Fleet size: | 10 |
| Aims: | international |
| Aéromaritime closed its operations in 1991. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Aéromaritime was a French charter airline that also carried out freight transports on behalf of the aircraft manufacturer Airbus .
history
Aéromaritime was founded in 1966 under the name Compagnie Aéromaritime d'Affrètement as a subsidiary of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens ( UTA ). The start of flight operations took place on January 11, 1967 with two machines of the type Douglas DC-6 , which were taken over by the parent company. If necessary, the company briefly leased additional aircraft of the types Sud Aviation Caravelle and Douglas DC-8 from the UTA inventory . Aéromaritime also used a Douglas DC-8-33 of the German airline Atlantis in the 1971 summer season . In November of the same year, the company received the first Super Guppy cargo plane . This aircraft ( registration number : F-BTGV ) and a second Super Guppy ( F-BPPA ) delivered in August 1973 were used on behalf of the aircraft manufacturer Airbus to transport large components. Freight transport quickly developed into the company's most important business area. In addition, Aéromaritime continued to fly tourist charter services until the end of December 1977, but exclusively with UTA machines rented for this purpose . In July 1982 and July 1983 the company took over another Super Guppy . The company used the four aircraft marked Airbus Skylink until 1989 and then sold them to the newly founded Airbus subsidiary Airbus Inter Transport .
After a ten-year hiatus, Aéromaritime resumed tourist charter flights on December 18, 1987. First, a rented McDonnell Douglas DC-10 from UTA was used on flights to the Caribbean on behalf of the tour operator Nouvelles Fontières . From March 19, 1988, the company also flew charter services on intra-European routes with leased Boeing 737-300 aircraft . Bangkok and the island of Réunion were served as further long-distance destinations from November 1988 with a Boeing 747-300 leased from the parent company . In the following year, the company carried around 450,000 passengers.
At the beginning of 1990 Air France bought the airline UTA and its subsidiary Aéromaritime . In the course of the takeover, the company was restructured and renamed Aéromaritime International . In April 1990 the company switched its charter services to the Caribbean on scheduled flights . Aéromaritime operated scheduled flights from Paris , Lyon and Marseille to Pointe-à-Pitre ( Guadeloupe ), Fort-de-France ( Martinique ) and Saint-Denis (Réunion) . From August 1990, Boeing 767s were also used on long-haul routes . In 1991, the intra-European charter services were gradually taken over by Air Charter , which is also part of the Air France group . Aéromaritime ceased operations in October 1991 after the remaining scheduled routes were ceded to Air France .
fleet
Fleet at the end of operations
At the end of operations, the Aéromaritime International fleet consisted of four Boeing 737-300s, one Boeing 737-400, two Boeing 767-200s, two Boeing 767-300s and one Boeing 747-300.
Previously deployed aircraft
- Aero Spacelines 377SGT-201 Super Guppy
- Boeing 747-200
- Boeing 767-200
- Douglas DC-6A and DC-6B
- Douglas DC-8-33
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Flight International, March 26, 1970
- ↑ a b c d Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 78
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 90/91
- ↑ airlines worldwide, BI Hengi, 1991
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 91/92
