Aeroamerica, Inc. was founded as a US supplemental carrierholder of supplemental air carrier certificate authorised to operate non-scheduled passenger and cargo services to supplement the scheduled operations of certificated route air carriers; an airline holding a supplemental air carrier certificate is also known as a "nonsked" in the US in 1973. It was headquartered at Seattle Boeing Field,

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. In 1975 the airline established an overseas base at

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in what used to be

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prior to

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. Berlin Tegel was the main operating base from 1975 until 1979. Aeroamerica ceased operations in 1982.

History

Formation

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businessman Arthur Joël Eisenberg was the founder and owner of Aeroamerica, Inc.ITL International Telecom Ltd. (International Telecoms and Tradition of Innovation)
/ref>''Airways (Zoeller, M., Aeroamerica – Deregulation Hopeful)'', pp. 44/5, HPC Publishing, St Leonards on Sea, November 2008 Aeroamerica was incorporated in August 1973.''Airways oeller, M., Aeroamerica – Deregulation Hopeful', p. 45, HPC Publishing, St Leonards on Sea, November 2008 On January 9, 1974, the

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(CAB) certificated Aeroamerica as a commercial airline operator. This was followed by the

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(FAA) transferring Standard Airways's dormant

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(AOC) to the newly formed airline.

Start of operations

Aeroamerica commenced commercial operations in 1974 with six-second-hand

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. One of these was sourced from

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while the remaining five were all ex-

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examples. (Aeroamerica's first aircraft had actually been delivered the year before, the same month the company had been incorporated.) Aeroamerica's Boeing 720s were configured in a 149-seat, single-class seating arrangement.''Berlin Airport Company – Summary of 1974 Annual Report, February 1975 Monthly Timetable Booklet for Berlin Tempelhof and Berlin Tegel Airports'', Berlin Airport Company, West Berlin, 1975 ''Airways ( oeller, M., Aeroamerica – Deregulation Hopeful', p. 46, HPC Publishing, St Leonards on Sea, November 2008 Although Aeroamerica applied similar

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s featuring the same basic shapes to most of its aircraft, the actual colour combination differed on each individual plane.''Berlin Airport Company, May 1975 Monthly Timetable Booklet for Berlin Tempelhof and Berlin Tegel Airports'', Berlin Airport Company, West Berlin, 1975 Aeroamerica's female

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s wore "hot pants".Zoeller, M., aeroamerica, p. 10

Overseas expansion

Following the decision of US supplemental carrier Modern Air's

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GAC Corp to exit the West Berlin charter market in October 1974, Aeroamerica acquired that airline's West Berlin traffic rights.''Airways ( oeller, M., Aeroamerica – Deregulation Hopeful', pp. 45/6, HPC Publishing, St Leonards on Sea, November 2008

Establishment of West Berlin base

On October 23, 1974, the day of the new terminal pre-inauguration at West Berlin's Tegel Airport, Aeroamerica stationed its first Boeing 720 at

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for crew familiarisation flights. This aircraft was painted in a basic Braniff colour scheme modified with a white ''Air Club International'' style

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and a black ''Berliner Flug Ring'' inscription by the main door. By March 1975, a further two Boeing 720s arrived at the airline's new Berlin Tegel base to fulfill a five-year charter contract the company had concluded with Berliner Flugring, at the time West Berlin's leading

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operator, to undertake a series of short- and medium-haul

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(IT)

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s to the

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and the

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from the start of the 1975 summer season. Aeroamerica had taken over this contract from Modern Air. The decision to supply whole-plane

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seats to West Berlin's foremost package

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enabled the airline to take advantage of the fact that all airlines other than those headquartered in the US, the UK and France – the airlines of the three Western victorious powers of

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— were banned from West Berlin. By 1975, all commercial operations were branded ''Aeroamerica''.this resulted in phasing out the ''Air Club'' brand used for flights operated by Aeroamerica's sister company ''Air Club International''.

Attainment of leadership in West Berlin charter market

By 1976, the size of the airline's

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-based fleet had doubled to six aircraft. These included four Boeing 720s as well as a

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and a

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.Zoeller, M., aeroamerica, p. 13
The latter had originally belonged to

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. During the summer of 1976, the bulk of Aeroamerica's activities increasingly centred on Berlin Tegel, making it West Berlin's leading charter airline at the time.

Decline

From 1977, the airline's business, which by that time focused on Berlinaccounting for 30% of all charter operations at Tegel as well as worldwide ''ad hoc''

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s and temporary

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s, gradually declined.Zoeller, M., aeroamerica, p. 14

Labour troubles

On July 1, 1977, 96% of Aeroamerica's unionised German flight attendants voted in favour of strike action in a

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held by the

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.''Deutsche Angestellten Gewerkschaft (DAG)'' in German They demanded pay parity with their colleagues working for Pan Am's Internal German Services (IGS) division and employment contracts governed by local

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to bring them in line with their unionised counterparts at other Allied airlines that employed their flight attendants locally.apart from Pan Am's local IGS flight attendants, these included local flight attendants at

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and

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(in contrast, local

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flight attendants' employment contracts were not governed by these conditions as the company did not recognise

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s in any part of its business) The company countered these demands by arguing that the nature of its business required flight attendants to be stationed anywhere, involving frequent postings to overseas stations at short notice to cover global ''ad hoc'' and

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commitments. It furthermore argued that adopting other Allied airlines' local employment conditions and pay for its own flight attendants would restrict operational flexibility and increase costs, that this would undermine its ability to compete globally and that the worldwide nature of its operations made all flight attendants' employment conditions subject to American labour law as well as CAB and FAA regulations to comply with US legal requirements. Initially, the airline was able to maintain its full flying programme at the beginning of the busy summer holiday period despite staff not showing up for work, following the first week of unsuccessful negotiations between Aeroamerica's local management and the ''DAG'' union. However, the conflict escalated during the second week when the local management dismissed without notice two flight attendants who had picketed a Tegel-bound flight in

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. As the conflict was still unresolved by the end of July and threatened to disrupt the holiday plans of thousands of West Berliners during the peak month of August, management attempted to break the flight attendants' strike by temporarily reducing the number of flight attendants from four to three per aircraft as well as by hiring

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from an unnamed UK airline.local West Berlin media reports at the time alleged that Laker Airways was the unnamed UK airline supplying contract labour to Aeroamerica to help it break its flight attendants' strike As these developments further aggravated the already tense standoff between the airline and its flight attendants' union, the latter sought to increase pressure on the company to settle the dispute by airing its members' grievances in public. It alleged that Aeroamerica's policy of only complying with minimum FAA requirements resulted in overworking flight attendants, putting lives of crew and passengers at risk in case of an emergency. Despite the negative publicity, management refused to return to the negotiating table and the strike eventually collapsed as the peak summer season drew to a close by the end of August. Following the end of the

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at the company, the FAA subjected Aeroamerica to an unannounced safety audit later the same year. The airline's management alleged that the FAA's move had been prompted by a dismissed flight attendant's act of revenge.

Overseas leases

The short-term wet- and

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s Aeroamerica had concluded with other airlines partially compensated for the loss of business at its Berlin base.''Airways ( oeller, M., Aeroamerica – Deregulation Hopeful', pp. 46–48, HPC Publishing, St Leonards on Sea, November 2008 Aeroamerica's wet-/sublease customers included

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, Kıbrıs Türk Hava Yolları (KTHY) — the

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and

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. For instance, the 1977 Kıbrıs wet lease, which ran for several years, entailed the stationing of a fully crewed Boeing 720 at Ercan to operate the Turkish carrier's scheduled route to

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Entry into US domestic scheduled market

Aeroamerica acquired additional second-hand Boeing 720s and 707s during 1978 to enable it to exploit new business opportunities created by U.S.

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.''Airways ( oeller, M., Aeroamerica – Deregulation Hopeful', p. 47, HPC Publishing, St Leonards on Sea, November 2008 In August of that year, Aeroamerica commenced its first-ever fully fledged scheduled air service between Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) and

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(GEG). Aeroamerica also operated nonstop jet service between Seattle

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(BFI) and Spokane in the fall of 1978 with two roundtrip nonstop flights every weekday. The company's new scheduled passenger flights were an immediate success. The following year, the firm prepared to launch additional scheduled services linking Seattle-Tacoma and

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, with

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. According to the

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(OAG), in late 1979 Aeroamerica was operating nonstop

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jet service four days a week between Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) and Honolulu (HNL) and was previously operating nonstop

jet service on the weekends between SEA and HNL.

Logistical and reliability problems

The increasingly far-flung nature of the airline's operations overstretched its small fleet. This was compounded by the fleet's advanced age. The combination of these two factors resulted in growing reliability problems.

Closure of West Berlin base

In January 1979, Berliner Flugring, Aeroamerica's main overseas

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, announced that it would not be renewing the five-year contract it had signed with the airline in late 1974, citing reliability issues as the main reason for its decision. Aeroamerica closed its Berlin base in November 1979, at the end of the summer season.

Adoption of new corporate strategy

Following its decision to exit the West Berlin charter market, Aeroamerica adopted a new

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that sought to refocus the airline as a low-fare

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scheduled operator, beginning with a weekly service linking Miami with Berlin via Brussels or

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from the start of the following year's summer season.

Growing financial problems and suspension of operations

As a result of growing financial difficulties, Aeroamerica voluntarily surrendered its operating permit during an informal meeting with the FAA at the end of 1979.''Short hauls ...'', Air Transport, Flight International, 22 November 1980, p. 1944
/ref>''Airways ( oeller, M., Aeroamerica – Deregulation Hopeful', p. 48, HPC Publishing, St Leonards on Sea, November 2008 This action on the airline's part in turn resulted in

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brought against it by an

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and

over unpaid bills concerning the former Berlin operation, as well as the seizure of one of the company's aircraft at Tegel Airport.

Reorganisation under Chapter 11

The CAB's subsequent decision to revoke the firm's exempt permit effectively grounded Aeroamerica, resulting in a filing under

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of the US bankruptcy code on November 19, 1979 seeking protection from

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s while reorganising the business under the

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's supervision. On June 30, 1980, the FAA suspended Aeroamerica's AOC.''Airways ( oeller, M., Aeroamerica – Deregulation Hopeful', p. 49, HPC Publishing, St Leonards on Sea, November 2008

Resumption of operations

On August 19, 1980, the FAA agreed to restore Aeroamerica's AOC following a joint representation by the airline and its official creditors' committee. However, Aeroamerica's operations continued to be plagued by financial and maintenance issues. In July 1982, Aeroamerica commenced scheduled services between Seattle and

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with

Company closure

The airline finally ceased operations during the latter half of 1982, when the FAA grounded it for a maintenance violation regarding the operation of a non-

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aircraft.

Fleet

Aeroamerica operated the following aircraft types: *

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* McDonnell-Douglas DC-8 *

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. Aeroamerica and its sister company Air Club International, which was formed in 1970 as Club International and had operated its first commercial flight across the

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to Amsterdam with an ex-

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Boeing 707 in 1971, claimed to be the world's largest operators of

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"executive aircraft".Zoeller, M., aeroamerica, p. 3

Notes and citations

;Notes ;Citations

References

*
''Airways – A Global Review of Commercial Flight''
* * (various backdated issues relating to Aeroamerica, 1974–1982)

External links

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Aviation Safety Network database
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