Aero (airline)

Aero
IATA code :	-
ICAO code :	-
Call sign :	-
Founding:	1925
Operation stopped:	1928
Seat:	Poses
Fleet size:	5
Aims:	2
Aero ceased operations in 1928. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Aero (with full name Towarzystwo Komunikacji Powietrznej AERO SA - Polish for "Air Transport Company AERO AG") was a Polish airline that was active from 1925 to 1928 and was based in Poznan .

history

The company was founded in February 1925 by a committee headed by Poznan voivod Adolf Bniński and registered in court on February 27th. In contrast to Aerolloyd , it was based exclusively on domestic capital, which was largely provided by proprietary companies of the Poznan Voivodeship and the City of Poznan, as well as the city directly, as well as registered shares for banks and private investors. In May 1925, it received a concession from the Ministry of Railways and on May 25th began regular connections from Poznan to Warsaw with the two Farman F.70s bought by CIDNA . After receiving three more brand-new Farmans, a second connection to Warsaw was opened on November 2, 1925, with a stopover in Łódz , which was abandoned at the end of the year. The permits received for the flight connections Poznan - Bromberg - Gdansk , Poznan - Katowice - Cracow and Poznan - Zbąszyń (at that time the border with the German Reich on the flight to Berlin ) were never used.

The company has not been able to generate any profits in the four years of its existence. Due to the susceptibility of the aircraft type used to failure, roughly every second flight was canceled, so that space occupancy also fell as a result. The company's economic situation deteriorated to such an extent that the bills could rarely be paid on time and some of the airport operators refused to refuel the aircraft. Nevertheless, the company received government grants. Only after a larger supply of replacement engines could be procured at the beginning of 1928 did the situation improve and the only operated connection could now be flown regularly. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1928 the number of emergency landings since the company was founded exceeded a hundred. As a replacement for the unreliable and now outdated Farmans, six Fokker F.VII aircraft were ordered on May 10, 1928, and they were delivered from November 1928. Since, according to the presidential decree of March 14, 1928, Aero was dissolved on December 27, 1928 or was incorporated into Linje Lotnicze LOT on the following day , these were only accepted by the successor company. LOT also took over the employees of Aero.

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Fleet and route

The Aero had five single-engine biplanes of the French Farman F.70 model with four passenger seats. The aircraft bore the license plate P-POZ.A to P-POZ.E . The choice of the French aircraft, despite concerns about its quality from the beginning, fell out of the political motive to differentiate oneself from the German makes of Aerolloyd. On November 16, 1928, P – POZ.C was badly damaged in an emergency landing and deleted from the register. The other four aircraft were no longer taken over by LOT and decommissioned on December 31, 1928.

The flight time on the only route operated regularly Posen-Warsaw (and back) was in accordance with the flight plan 120 minutes (air line 285 km). The connection was operated once a day, departing at 8:30 a.m. in Poznan and 5:00 p.m. in Warsaw. In the last year of operation, 667 passengers were carried in 356 flights.

literature

Mieczysław Mikulski, Andrzej Glass: Polski transport lotniczy 1918-1978 . Warsaw 1980, p. 54-60 .

Web links

• Rob Mulder: Towarzystwo Komunikacji Lotniczej Aero Spólka Akcyjna - SA Aero (1925-1928). In: European Airlines. July 10, 2010, accessed August 4, 2013 . 
• Photograph of a Farman F.70 of the Aero