Aero Airlines
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Founded | 2000 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 2002 | ||||||
Ceased operations | 2008 | ||||||
Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport | |||||||
Fleet size | 0 | ||||||
Destinations | 0 | ||||||
Headquarters | Tallinn, Estonia |
Airlines Aero was a regional
History
The name harkens back to Aero Airlines's and Finnair's first incarnation, Aero AS, founded in 1923, and its first
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 retained Aero AS's IATA designator AY, while the modern-day Aero Airlines flew 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%), was the ownership was later transferred wholly to Finnair. Aero had 128 employees (at March 2007).[1]
Aero scaled down its operations during 2007, and finally flew its last flight on 6 January 2008. All its former routes are now operated by
The IATA code (EE) and call-sign (REVAL) have been re-used by Nordica, which began operations at the end of 2015.[2]
Destinations
Aero Airlines operated services to the following scheduled destinations (at December 2007):
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The Aero Airlines fleet consisted of
References
- ^ Flight International 27 March 2007, p. 46
- ^ AirlinesMap. "Regional Jet OÜ Flight Information, Reservations, Status". Cheap Flights Tickets and find Best Airlines Route Map at airlinesmap.com. Retrieved 2023-01-16.