Aero (Polish airline)
Aero ( full name Towarzystwo Komunikacji Powietrznej AERO SA - Polish: for " Society of aviation AERO AG ") was a 1925 to 1928 active Polish airline based in Poznan.
History
The company was founded in February 1925 by a committee at the Poznań province Adolf Bninski and registered by the court on 27 February. In contrast to Aero Lloyd it was based exclusively on the national capital, mostly directly by its own companies in the Province of Posen and the city of Poznań and the city beyond was provided by registered shares for banks and private investors. In May 1925, it received a license from the Ministry of Railways and adopted on May 25 with the purchased of CIDNA Farman F.70 two regular connection from Poznan to Warsaw. After receiving three other brand new Farmans was opened on November 2, 1925 second line to Warsaw with a stopover in Łódź, which was abandoned by the end of the year. The obtained permits for the flights Poznan - Bydgoszcz - Gdansk, Poznan - Katowice -Krakow and Poznan - Zbąszyń ( time limit to the German Reich on the flight to Berlin) were, however, never used.
The company was able to generate keien profits in the four years of its existence. Due to the susceptibility of the use pattern plane fell out every second flight, so as a result decreased the space occupancy. The economic situation of the company deteriorated this requires such an extent that the bills were paid on time and rarely partially refused the airport operator to refuel the aircraft. This unnoticed, the Company received government grants. Only after a larger stock of spare engines could be designed at the beginning of 1928, the situation improved and the only powered link could be flown on a regular basis now. Nevertheless, passed in the summer of 1928, the number of emergency landings since the company was founded a century ago. As a replacement for the unreliable and now outdated Farmans you ordered on May 10, 1928 six aircraft of type Fokker F.VII that were shipped from November 1928. Since the Presidential Decree of 14 March 1928, according to the Aero dissolved on December 27, 1928 and received on the day following the Linje Lotnicze LOT, these were only removed by the successor company. The LOT took over as the employees of Aero.
Fleet and route
The Aero had five single-engine biplane Farman F.70 of the French pattern with four passenger seats. The aircraft carried the flag P- POZ.A to P- POZ.E. The choice of the French aircraft despite existing concerns from the very beginning to its quality fell from the political motive, to distinguish themselves from the German makes of Aero Lloyd. On November 16, 1928 P- POZ.C was badly damaged during an emergency landing and removed from the register. The remaining four aircraft were no longer accepted by the LOT and retired with 31 December 1928.
The flight time on the only regularly operated route Poznan -Warsaw (and back) was specified in the flight plan 120 minutes ( air line 285 km). The compound was served once a day, with departures 8:30 clock to 17:00 clock in Poznan, Warsaw. In the last year of operation was promoted in 356 flights 667 passengers.