ALM Antillean Airlines
| ALM Antillean Airlines | |
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| IATA code : | LM |
| ICAO code : | ALM |
| Call sign : | ANTILLEAN |
| Founding: | 1964 |
| Operation stopped: | 2002 |
| Seat: |
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| Home airport : | Hato International Airport |
| Fleet size: | 4th |
| Aims: | Caribbean , Suriname , USA , Venezuela , Amsterdam |
| ALM Antillean Airlines ceased operations in 2002. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
ALM Antillean Airlines (originally Antilliaanse Luchtvaart Maatschappij , from 1997 Air ALM ) was one of the Netherlands Antilles -based airline based in Curacao .
history
As early as 1935, the Dutch airline KLM had set up a department ( KLM West-Indisch Bedrijf ) in the Caribbean through which the state-owned company offered air traffic within the Netherlands Antilles. In the early 1960s, KLM decided to outsource the Caribbean division and turn it into an independent airline. This resulted in the KLM subsidiary Antilliaanse Luchtvaart Maatschappij (ALM) in 1964 , which started operations on August 1, 1964 with three Convair CV-340s from the parent company.
KLM sold its majority stake on January 1, 1969, whereupon the company was named ALM Antillean Airlines and became a state-owned company in the Netherlands Antilles. At that time, the company served regional routes from Curaçao to Aruba , Bonaire and Sint Maarten as well as international routes to Antigua , Barbados , Guadeloupe , Hati , Colombia , St. Lucia , Suriname , Trinidad and Tobago , Venezuela and the Dominican Republic . In addition, connections from Curaçao to the USA were offered in cooperation with KLM and VIASA . After the commissioning of Douglas DC-9-30 machines , the company also operated its own flights to Miami and New York from the mid-1970s . In addition, further international line routes to Jamaica and Puerto Rico were opened. From 1991 onwards, KLM again held a minority stake in the company and offered a code-sharing route to Amsterdam . In 1997, ALM Antillean Airlines was 40% privatized and renamed Air ALM . In 2000 the company faced bankruptcy. At the same time, KLM withdrew completely from the company and ended the cooperation on the route to Amsterdam.
Air ALM was taken over in 2000 by DCA - Dutch Caribbean Airlines , which belonged to the state holding company Stichting DC Beheer . From December 2000, the Belgian City Bird operated two weekly scheduled flights from Curaçao to Amsterdam on behalf of Air ALM with aircraft of the type McDonnell Douglas MD-11 . From March 2001 a leased Boeing 767 from Sobelair was used on this route. The company's four DHC-8-300s were assigned to the regional airline Dutch Caribbean Express during 2001 , which was also owned by DCA - Dutch Caribbean Airlines and Stichting DC Beheer . Air ALM continued flight operations with their three remaining McDonnell Douglas MD-82s until 2002. In July 2002 Air ALM was dissolved. At the same time, the newly founded DCA - Dutch Caribbean Airlines, named after its parent company, started operating on the previous Air ALM route network . This company filed for bankruptcy in October 2004.
Destinations
Air ALM flew to destinations in the Caribbean, South America, the USA and Amsterdam.
fleet
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Fleet at the end of operations
When the company's own business operations were discontinued, the Air Alm fleet consisted of four aircraft:
- 3 × McDonnell Douglas MD-82
- 1 × Boeing 767 (leased from Sobelair )
Previously deployed aircraft
ALM had previously operated the following types of aircraft:
- Boeing 727-100
- Convair CV-340 and CV-440
- De Havilland Canada DHC-8-300
- Douglas DC-8-33 and DC-8-53 (leased between February 1978 and October 1979; operated in their own colors)
- Douglas DC-9-15 and DC-9-30
- Fokker F-27 Friendship
- Fairchild-Hiller FH-227
- Lockheed L-188AF (leased for cargo flights)
- McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (leased by City Bird from December 2000 to March 2001 )
- Short 330
Incidents
In the course of its existence, ALM had only recorded one total loss (with an aircraft operated by a US company). 23 people were killed:
On May 2, 1970, the pilot of a had to Douglas DC-9-33 of the US Overseas National Airways (ONA) ( air vehicle registration N935F ) about 48 kilometers north-northeast of the Caribbean island of Saint Croix due to fuel shortages ditch . The wet- leased aircraft was on a scheduled flight for ALM from New York to St. Martin . After three missed approaches to the local Princess Juliana International Airport , the crew decided too late to evade to Saint Thomas . When ditching, 23 of the 63 occupants were killed (see also ALM flight 980 ) .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Aero, issue 195, year 1987
- ^ ALM, flight plan July 1968
- ↑ JP airline-Fleets international, Edition 2002/03
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2003/04
- ^ Dutch Caribbean Airlines. ch-aviation , accessed on October 3, 2015 .
- ^ Air ALM. ch-aviation , accessed on October 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Netherlands Antilles. In: airlinehistory.co.uk. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2002/03
- ^ Ulrich Klee and Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1966 to 2002.
- ↑ Planespotters.net, DC-8 used by ALM
- ↑ Accident statistics ALM - Antillean Airlines , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 21, 2017.
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report DC-9-33 N935F in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on March 21, 2017.