AOM French Airlines

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AOM French Airlines
IATA IW	ICAO AOM	Callsign French Lines
Founded		1988
Fleet size
Destinations
Headquarters
Key people		First chairman: Marc Rochet
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AOM French Airlines (previously Air Outre-Mer) was a French airline.

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 See Also
5 External Links

[edit] History

Air Outre Mer (AOM) was founded in 1988 on the island of Réunion, and commenced scheduled passenger service in 1990 with a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 and a Dornier Do 228. In October 1991 Air Outre Mer merged with Minerve, a french airline which was based at Orly and had operated since 1975. The two companies began operating under the name AOM French Airlines, although the administrative name was "AOM-Minerve S.A.". Minerve was the first airline to compete directly with Air Inter on the french domestic airline market by opening a Paris (Orly) - Nice route in may of 1990. During the 1990s Swissair acquired a stake in the airline as a part of its "hunter strategy". AOM French Airlines ceased operating in 2001 (possibly as a result of the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the early 2000s recession which followed).[1][2]