Air Commerz
| Air Commerz | |
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_ex_D-ADAQ.jpg) The former D-ADAQ, Boeing 707-138B of Air Commerz, parked in Marana (1975) |
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| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | DX |
| Call sign : | AIRCOMER |
| Founding: | 1970 |
| Operation stopped: | 1972 |
| Seat: | Hamburg |
| Home airport : | Dusseldorf Airport |
| Fleet size: | 4th |
| Aims: | Western Europe, Mediterranean |
| Air Commerz ceased operations in 1972. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Air Commerz was a German charter airline . The company's official home airport was Düsseldorf . However, routes from Hamburg were mostly served.
history
Air Commerz was founded in Hamburg in early 1970 by private investors. In March 1970 the company acquired a Vickers Viscount 808C from the Irish Aer Lingus , with which flight operations took place in June 1970. A second machine of this type was taken over in August 1970. Air Commerz couldn't win any leading tourism company as a customer. Instead, the company mainly flew occasional services ( ad hoc charter ) for smaller tour operators and offered special flights for guest workers to their home countries outside of the holiday periods. In addition, the Vickers Viscount were also used for international freight transport. Although the economic basis was not secured by the lack of long-term charter contracts, Air Commerz took over a used Boeing 707-138B from the US American Standard Airways on March 24 and May 9, 1971 . The aged machines were from 1959 and were originally delivered to the Australian airline Qantas . The first charter flight with a Boeing 707 in June 1971 by Hamburg to Reims . Most of the machines were used on flights to Turkey . In addition, the company was able to briefly lease a Boeing 707 to the Indonesian Merpati Nusantara Airlines .
The acquisition of the high-maintenance jet planes exacerbated the company's already tense financial situation and prevented its economic restructuring. From September 1, 1972, a Boeing 707 was detained in Dublin because the company could not pay for a repair carried out by Aer Lingus . The insufficient utilization of the aircraft, the sum of the current liabilities and the unsuccessful search for new investors meant that flight operations had to be suspended on September 4, 1972. Air Commerz was liquidated in January 1973.
fleet
- Vickers Viscount 808C ( marked : D-ADAM, D-ADAN )
- Boeing 707-138B ( Registration : D-ADAP, D-ADAQ )
The two Vickers Viscounts were returned to Aer Lingus in September 1972 due to outstanding claims . The Boeing 707 (D-ADAQ) that remained in Düsseldorf was returned to the American lessor Frederick B. Ayer & Associates, Inc. in January 1973 . The Boeing 707 (D-ADAP) stored in Dublin was sold to the same leasing company on August 8, 1973.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b jp airline-markings 72, FE Bucher and U. Klee, 1972
- ↑ Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
- ↑ a b c History of the Qantas Boeing 707 VH-EBB . Adastron.com. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
- ^ Abendblatt.de: Workforce is fighting for the "Air Commerz" ( memento from July 16, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on March 28, 2018
- ↑ Cheaper than ever . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1972 ( online ).
- ↑ History of Qantas Boeing 707 VH-EBF . Adastron.com. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
