Air Cargo Germany
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| IATA code : | 6U |
| ICAO code : | ACX |
| Call sign : | LOADMASTER |
| Founding: | 2008 |
| Operation stopped: | 2013 |
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Frankfurt Hahn , Germany
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| Home airport : | Frankfurt Hahn |
| Company form: | GmbH |
| Management: | Michael Schaecher, Thomas Homering |
| Number of employees: | last around 120 |
| Fleet size: | 4th |
| Aims: | International |
| Website: | acg.aero |
| Air Cargo Germany ceased operations in 2013. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
ACG Air Cargo Germany GmbH , ACG for short , was a German cargo airline with its headquarters and base at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport .
history
The airline was founded in June 2008 by Michael Bock as the majority shareholder. Michael Bock previously worked for LTU as a nomitated postholder for more than 20 years. ACG Air Cargo Germany received its Air Operator Certificate on July 14, 2009 , which entitles ACG Air Cargo Germany to transport freight and mail in commercial traffic. The former LTU manager Thomas Homering was added to the management. After Michael Bock left the company, Michael Schaecher, who was responsible for various management positions at DHL Global Forwarding and Panalpina , was added to the management team. Until Michael Bock left the company, the shareholders were ACG Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH and 49% Volga Dnepr Logistics BV
In September 2009 ACG received approval for scheduled flights to Hong Kong and Shanghai . The first scheduled flight to Dubai and Beirut took off on October 1, 2009 .
Since the end of March 2012, the airline was 49% owned by the Volga-Dnepr Group . In this context, the base at the home airport Frankfurt-Hahn should be increased by additional aircraft. In the first months of 2013, January to March, around a fifth of the freight volume at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport was accounted for by ACG.
The cessation of flight operations was announced on April 19, 2013, and the company's operating license has been suspended since then. As a result, insolvency proceedings were opened on July 1, 2013 . As part of the insolvency proceedings, it became known that during its flight operations, ACG had received a loan of 5 million euros from the operating company of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (arising from debts) and in 2009 from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate , through the investment and structural bank Rhineland-Palatinate , in Has taken. The lenders had already written off some of these loans. The loans were completely returned to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate from the bankruptcy estate. In order to resume flight operations, potential investors assumed a capital requirement of 30 to 50 million euros. At the beginning of September 2013 it was announced that negotiations with new investors had failed. As a result, all employees were laid off and the leased aircraft were returned.
Services
ACG Air Cargo Germany served long-haul routes in particular, both in charter and liner services. Until the cessation of flight operations on April 19, 2013, it was responsible for the transport of dangerous goods, heavy and oversized cargo, perishable goods and the transport of live animals. All transports were carried out in accordance with the international regulations of the ICAO .
fleet
As of August 2013, the ACG Air Cargo Germany fleet consisted of four cargo aircraft:
Two of the machines came from the China Airlines fleet . The conversions of the former passenger planes took place at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv by Israel Aerospace Industries . The first aircraft with the aircraft registration D-ACGA was taken over on February 12, 2009 and landed on February 25, 2009 at the home airport Frankfurt-Hahn. The second machine ( D-ACGB ) arrived at Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam on July 14th, 2009 to be painted in the ACG colors and was transferred to Frankfurt-Hahn on July 24th, 2009. The third machine, a leased Boeing 747-400SF from the inventory of the Dutch company Martinair , was taken over in Frankfurt-Hahn on May 12, 2010 and approved by the Federal Aviation Office with the aircraft registration D-ACGC . On September 11, 2010, ACG took over a fourth freighter ( D-ACGD ) of the type 747-400SF, also from Martinair's inventory. As part of the bankruptcy, both Martinair aircraft were returned.
Incidents
- On September 21, 2010, an ACG Boeing 747-400SF ( D-ACGD ) was badly damaged in Hong Kong when the left landing gear buckled before take-off. One of the runways was then closed for several hours. The aircraft had only recently been taken over by the Dutch Martinair and overhauled at Revima in Caudebec-en-Caux, France, and at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in Amsterdam .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ACG website: Our Fleet ( Memento from September 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ACG Air Cargo Germany Gets Off The Blocks ( Memento from April 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c airliners.de - Impending loan default by Air Cargo Germany increasing , May 13, 2013
- ↑ Michael Schaecher new CEO of ACG Air Cargo Germany GmbH ( Memento from April 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Air Cargo Germany increases fleet ( Memento from April 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ airliners.de: Air Cargo Germany takes scheduled flights on September 24, 2009
- ↑ airliners.de: Air Cargo Germany announces second rotation. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012 ; Retrieved September 22, 2009 .
- ↑ aero.de: aero.de - Aviation News and Community May 9, 2012
- ↑ aero.de - Air Cargo Germany suspends flight operations April 19, 2013
- ↑ Justice Portal - Insolvency Announcements
- ↑ a b airliners.de - power struggle for the resurrection of Air Cargo Germany . July 10, 2013
- ↑ aero.de - Insolvente ACG dismisses all employees September 4, 2013
- ↑ Charter Services ( Memento from April 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Flight review: Air Cargo Germany takes over third cargo jumbo May 14, 2010
- ↑ airliners.de: Fourth Boeing 747 for Air Cargo Germany - airliners.de June 21, 2010
- ↑ Financial Times Deutschland: German cargo jumbo crashed in Hong Kong ( memento of September 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 22, 2010
