AOM French Airlines

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AOM French Airlines
AOM logo
AOM Boeing 737-500
IATA code : IW
ICAO code : AOM
Call sign : FRENCH LINES
Founding: 1991
Operation stopped: 2001
Merged with: Air Lib
Seat: Orly , FranceFranceFrance 
Turnstile :

Paris-Orly Airport

Home airport : Paris-Orly Airport
Number of employees: 3200
Frequent Flyer Program : Qualiflyer Group
Fleet size: 31
Aims: National and international
AOM French Airlines merged with Air Lib in 2001 . The information in italics relates to the last status before the takeover.

AOM French Airlines (merged into Air Lib in 2001 ) was a French airline based in Orly and based at Paris-Orly Airport .

history

AOM was created in the course of a wave of consolidation in the aviation industry in the early 1990s through the merger of the former Air Outre Mer (AOM, French for "overseas airline") with the French Air Minerve . AOM French Airlines officially began operating on February 1, 1992. At times it was the second largest airline in France after Air France and maintained a route and charter network.

In February 1999, Swissair took over 49% of the shares in AOM French Airlines and thus became the largest shareholder. As a result of the collapse of the Swissair parent company SAirGroup , AOM got into financial turmoil. In the course of the liquidation of Swissair, there was another change of ownership.

On September 22, 2001, AOM merged with Air Liberté, also from France, in the newly founded Air Lib . However, even this could no longer prevent the final decline. In autumn 2002 the Dutch IMCA group announced that it wanted to take over 50% of Air Lib, but made this dependent on state aid in the subsequent negotiations, which the French government was not prepared to give.

In February 2003, Air Lib had to file for bankruptcy. Since no other investor was found either, the competent commercial court in Créteil finally ordered the liquidation of the company.

Destinations

In addition to a few domestic destinations such as Marseille and Perpignan , AOM mainly served long-haul destinations such as St. Maarten , Sydney , Havana , Tokyo and Los Angeles .

fleet

At the beginning of 2001, the AOM French Airlines fleet consisted of 31 aircraft:

Incidents

See also

Web links

Commons : AOM French Airlines  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b welt.de: French Air Lib finally bankrupt February 19, 2003.
  2. handelsblatt.com: Air Lib is close to bankruptcy January 9, 2003 without fixed financing .
  3. JP airlines-fleets international, Edition 2001/02
  4. Flight accident data and report for Cubana flight 1216 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)