AB Aerotransport
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AB Aerotransport, ABA, was an airline and is today part of the SAS Group.
ABA was established in 1924 under the namne Aktiebolaget Aerotransport by the founders Carl and Adrian Florman. First flight was in June 2, 1924 between Stockholm and Helsinki with a Junker F13 aircraft. The aircraft was registred as S-AAAC and later changed to SE-AAC. This aircraft is now on display at the Technical Museum in Stockholm. In 1925 the company started a route between Stockholm and Berlin in co-operation with Lufthansa and a mail route between Stockholm - Malmö - Amsterdam - London.
ABA was the first airline with three engine passenger aircraft in 1925, ABA bougth three Swedish Junkers G 24 from AB Flygindustri. During the years ABA used and bougth several different aircraft (eg Junkers F 33, F 34, G 23, G24). For the longer routes a Fokker F XII was used.
In 1937 ABA became the second European oparator of the Douglas DC-3 after KLM. This opened opportunities to fly "longer flights" for exampel to Moscow. In 1939 ABA started to mark their aircrafts with Swedish Air Lines.
During the 2nd World War ABA tried to maintain their route network but in 1941 the route to Moscow was ceased and the route to Berlin was ceased in 1945. During the entire 2nd World War ABA had a kurir flight between Stockholm and London. After the German occupation of Europe ABA started new routes to Paris, Oslo and Prestwick.
In June 1948, after a Swedish report, the governmantal owned ABA and private owned SILA were merged on a 50-50 basis, the new airline was named ABA.
SILA became the Swedish part in SAS already in 1946, that in that time only was a co-opartion bewteen DDL in Denmark and DNL in Norway.
October 1, 1950 represents from the three airlines signed a consortium agreement where they appointed SAS for their count to run the airline operations.
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| History | DDL (1946) | DNL (1946) | SILA (1946) | ABA (1948) | Linjeflyg (1992) | Braathens (2001) |
