| Aero Airlines | ||
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| IATA EE |
ICAO EAY |
Callsign REVAL |
| Founded | 2000 | |
| Hubs | Tallinn Airport | |
| Fleet size | 3 | |
| Destinations | 4 | |
| Headquarters | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Key people | ||
| Website: www.aeroairlines.com | ||
Aero Airlines is a regional airline based in Tallinn, Estonia. It operates services between three Finnish destinations as well as international flights to Tallinn. All of their flights are operated under Finnair's designation AY. Its main bases are Helsinki-Vantaa and Tallinn Ülemiste.
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History
The name harkens back to Aero Airlines's and Finnair's first incarnation, Aero AS, founded in 1923, and its first Junkers F 13 seaplane took off from Helsinki harbor in Katajanokka to a lake near to the present Ülemiste Airport in Tallinn for its first flight, March 24, 1924, carrying 162 kg (357 lbs) of mail. Other destinations were quickly added: Stockholm and the then Königsberg (Kaliningrad), from where passengers took trains respectively to Göteborg (sometimes boarding other planes to Copenhagen, Oslo and London) and to Berlin, and passengers began to queue up at some periods — up to 48 per day in 1926 waiting for the four-seaters to fly them. After initial reluctance from the Finnish authorities to build airports, Aero's fleet could eventually dispose of its seaplanes and get on wheel-landing aircraft in 1938. But the airlines disappeared as a consequence of the annexion of Estonia by the Soviet Union in June 1940. Finnair retains Aero AS's IATA designator AY, while the modern-day Aero Airlines flies as EE. The airline was re-established in 2000 and started operations in March 2002 within the Baltic region. It was owned by Aero Holding (51%) and Finnair (49%), but is now wholly owned by Finnair and has 128 employees (at March 2007) [1]. Aero has been scaling down their operations since the beginning of 2007 and the airline will fly the last flight on 6th January 2008. All the routes operated will be taken over by Finncomm Airlines and Finnair.
Destinations
Aero Airlines operates services to the following scheduled destinations (at December 2007): Helsinki, Tallinn, Turku and Vaasa.
Fleet
The Aero Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (at August 2007) : 3 ATR 72-200, in a 68 passenger configuration.
References
- ^ Flight International 27 March 2007, p. 46
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