Maersk Air
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| IATA code : | DM |
| ICAO code : | DAN |
| Call sign : | MAERSKAIR |
| Founding: | 1969 |
| Operation stopped: | 2005 |
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Copenhagen , Denmark
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| Alliance : | DANAIR |
| Fleet size: | 18th |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Mærsk Air ceased operations in 2005. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Mærsk Air was a Danish airline based in Copenhagen . Maersk Air was merged with another airline to form Sterling Airlines in 2005 .
history
The airline was founded in 1969 by the AP Møller-Mærsk group of companies. The group viewed air freight as another part of their economic expansion efforts. AP Møller-Mærsk took over Falck Air in 1969 and renamed it to its current name. Flight operations began in December 1970 with three Fokker F-27 aircraft from Copenhagen to Munich and London . Flights to Vágar in the Faroe Islands followed in 1971 . In the same year, the company with Scandinavian Airlines System and Cimber Air formed DANAIR as a joint parent company.
After Maersk Air took over the two Danish tour operators Raffels Rejser and Bangs Rejser in December 1971 , the company expanded and in January 1973 initially acquired three used Boeing 720s from Northwest Orient Airlines . The first flight use of the Boeing 720 took place on March 31, 1973 from Copenhagen to Rhodes . From January 1976 the company started using the aircraft on transatlantic charter flights to Canada and the USA. In the same year Maersk Air received its first Boeing 737-200 , which gradually replaced the Boeing 720 by the end of 1981.
In the 1980s Maersk Air began to fly to international destinations on scheduled flights, initially to Stavanger and Southend-on-Sea . In 1989 the company took over Copenhagen Airport Services and set up a cargo center together with Lufthansa .
On June 30, 2005, the company was sold to the Icelandic investment company Fons Eignarhaldsfélag . In September this year, the new owner transferred the company to the new Sterling Airlines and sold it back to the owner of Icelandair , the FL Group .
fleet
- BAe (HS) 125-400B
- Beechcraft King Air C90
- Bell 212
- Boeing 720
- Boeing 737-200, 737-300, 737-400, 737-500 and 737-700
- Bombardier Challenger 604
- Bombardier CRJ200LR
- De Havilland Canada DHC-7
- Fokker F-27
- Fokker 50
- Hawker Siddeley HS 748
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