Pleuger flight service
| Pleuger limited airline company | |
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| IATA code : | |
| ICAO code : | JR |
| Call sign : | |
| Founding: | 1973 |
| Operation stopped: | 1978 |
| Merged with: | Contact Air |
| Seat: |
Stuttgart , Germany
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| Home airport : | Stuttgart Airport |
| Company form: | GmbH |
| Fleet size: | 4th |
| Aims: | international, charter |
| Pleuger limited airline company merged with Contact Air in 1978 . The information in italics relates to the last status before the takeover. | |
The Pleuger Flugdienst (actually Pleuger Flugbetriebsgesellschaft with limited liability , externally also Pleuger Flug ) was a German airline based in Stuttgart .
History and destinations
The Pleuger Flugdienst was founded on July 2, 1973 and was initially primarily active in charter flights.
At the end of 1975, DLT decided to discontinue all of its own flights from Friedrichshafen . The routes that were last served by Twin Otter aircraft , despite lucrative contracts with local companies, could not be brought to an economically viable level. On the part of the airport, however, they feared a permanent decline in passengers, so they contacted the Pleuger flight service. Once again, the local companies guaranteed a purchase of seats worth 740,000 DM and so on January 12, 1976, the company entered the scheduled business with two weekday flights from Friedrichshafen to Stuttgart and Zurich . This time two Piper PA-31s were used . The use of a 15-seater Beech 99 was also considered, but was delayed until August 1976 due to problems with the registration. In addition to the local companies, which meanwhile guaranteed a seat purchase worth 768,000 DM, the state of Baden-Württemberg subsidized the regular service of the Pleuger Flight service both in 1976 and 1977 with a sum of 250,000 DM.
Despite initial liquidity problems, the company increased its frequency on the Friedrichshafen - Zurich route to three times a day with an additional midday flight in mid-1977. But further financial problems, which were also due to the lack of success of the charter business, which was also operated, finally led to the discontinuation of the line operation in the spring of 1978. The Beech 99 was sold to the DLT in order to alleviate the existing fleet problems. The former routes were then taken over by Delta Air, later dba , and Pleuger Flugdienst was acquired by Contact Air .
fleet
In the spring of 1977 the Pleuger Flugdienst fleet consisted of four aircraft:
| Aircraft type | number | Aircraft registration |
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| Piper PA-31 | 1 | D-IDXQ |
| Piper PA-31-350 | 1 | D-IBPL |
| Piper PA-31-T Cheyenne | 1 | D-IJET |
| Beechcraft Model 99 | 1 | D-IBPF |
| total | 4th |
See also
literature
- Karl-Dieter Seifert: From OLT to Lufthansa CityLine - 40 years in air traffic . Ed .: Lufthansa CityLine GmbH. Cologne 1999.
Web links
- Photo of the Pleuger Flugdienst on Airliners.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Air Cargo Guide . tape 21 . RH Donnelly Corporation, 1977, p. 16 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Joint register portal of the federal states (register type HRB , register number 5396 , register court Stuttgart ; activate the checkbox also find deleted companies ), accessed on June 20, 2016.
- ↑ Seifert, 1999, p. 42
- ^ Winfried Krieger: Case study Friedrichshafen on planning problems of a regional aviation company (= writings on the business administration of traffic ). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 978-3-428-04698-0 , pp. 28 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Seifert, 1999, p. 54
- ^ Karl-Dieter Seifert: The German air traffic 1955-2000 - world traffic, liberalization, globalization (= Die deutsche Luftfahrt . No. No. 29 ). Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7637-6121-7 , p. 136, 381 .
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 77
