Maersk Air is Denmark's largest privately owned airline, based in Copenhagen. It also has a secondary hub in Billund. It is part of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group and is engaged in international scheduled air services, charter flights, leasing of aircraft and air freight. Maersk Air is part of a large group of companies that use the name Maersk. Other areas where the name is used include shipping, petroleum, data, sea container services and more. A Boeing 747-400 belonging to Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... Copenhagen (Danish: København) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, and the name of the municipality (Danish, kommune) in which it resides. ... Billund is a municipality in the center of the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark, in the county of Ribe. ... Mærsk Sealand 40 Containers The A.P.Möller - Maersk Group (Danish: A.P. Møller-Mærsk Gruppen) is an international business consortium involved in a variety of business sectors, primarily transportation. ...

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Code Data

• IATA Code: DM
• ICAO Code: DAN
• Callsign: Maerskair

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History

The A.P. Moller - Maersk Group began to investigate opportunities to expand into airline operations in the mid-1960s. With the company's strong profile and experience in international merchant shipping since the beginning of the 20th century, and the Group's many other transport activities, air freight was seen as the next step in the progression of the company. However, as Danish law precluded chartered air freight in Denmark (a policy not rescinded until 1987), Maersk instead took over the Falck Air company in 1969, which operated a scheduled service between Copenhagen and Odense. Maersk Air was born, and three new Fokker F-27 aircraft were purchased for the service, and charter, operations. The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Odense Palace Odense Theatre Odense Railroad Centre Odense is the third largest city in Denmark with 145,554 inhabitants (Odense city 1st January 2004) and the capital of the island of Funen. ... The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner designed and built by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. ...

Services to Vágar in the Faroe Islands started in 1971, and in the same year Maersk, together with Scandinavian Airlines System and Cimber Air, agreed to form 'DANAIR' to act as an umbrella company to co-ordinate Danish domestic services. Vágar, or Vágoy is one of the 18 islands in the archipelago of the Faroe Islands and the most westerly of the large islands. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... SAS Airbus A340-300 SAS MD-82 SAS Boeing 737-600 Scandinavian Airlines System, now SAS AB, is an airline based in Stockholm, Sweden. ... Cimber Air is an airline based in Denmark. ...

Boeing 707 aircraft were purchased in 1973 to allow for expansion in the charter holiday market, and at the same time the company acquired its first helicopters to serve the North Sea oil fields from Esbjerg. The Maersk corporate identity of sky blue and the seven-pointed star logo. The Maersk name is applied to the aircraft for the first time. However, throughout this time, financial results remained disappointing, and major restructuring was necessary in the early 1980s to ensure the airline's survival. The Boeing 707 is a four engined commercial passenger jet aircraft developed by Boeing in the early 1950s. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... Drilling rig in a small oil field Near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 An oil field is an area with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum (oil) from below ground. ... Watertower in Esbjerg. ... For other uses, see Blue (disambiguation) Blue is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength range (about 420-490 nanometres) of the three primary colors. ... Acute heptagram Obtuse heptagram Acute and obtuse heptagrams inscribed within a heptagon. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...

Boeing 737s were introduced in 1976, and the company became a test case for the Boeing Aircraft Company, which evaluated the performance of the airline's 737 on the short runway at Vágar Airport in the Faroes. Mearsk would also be a test company for Boeing with the 737-300 in 1985, and the 737-700 in 1995. 737 in new Boeing Colors. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Boeing Company NYSE: BA is the leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with its largest production facilities in Everett, Washington, about 30 miles north of Seattle, Washington. ... Vágar Airport is the only airport in the Faroe Islands, a self-governing territory of Denmark consisting of a group of subarctic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Iceland. ... 737 in new Boeing Colors. ... This article is about the year. ... 737 in new Boeing Colors. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The first international routes were established in the early 1980s, first to Stavanger in Norway and to Southend-on-Sea in the United Kingdom. Mearsk also takes full ownership of Copenhagen Airport Services (now Novia) in 1989, previously having been a shareholder. A cargo centre was established in Copenhagen, initially with German carrier Lufthansa, however Maersk now operate the facility on their own. // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... County Rogaland Landscape Jæren Municipality NO-1103 Administrative centre Stavanger Mayor (2004) Leif Johan Sevland (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 406 71 km² 68 km² 0. ... Southend-on-Sea is a resort town in Essex, England. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lufthansa (Deutsche Lufthansa AG) is the largest German airline company, headquartered in Cologne. ...

The 1990s saw considerable expansion in the number of European destinations served, and the fleet grew to accommodate. Maersk also purchased 49% of Estonian Air, but this was later divested in 2003. // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining a similar mindset. ... Estonian Air is the national airline of Estonia. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

A new livery was introduced in 2004, consisting of a white forward fuselage, deep blue rear fuselage (diagonally separated) with the sky blue at the bottom rear of the fuselage (again, separated diagonally). Maersk is written in bold white titles down the tailfin, the star logo moving next to the deep blue Maersk titled on the forward upper fuselage. This replaced the all-over sky blue with deep blue stripe that had been used since the 1970s. A livery is a uniform worn by a civilian person. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ... In an aircraft, the fuselage is the main body section that holds crew and passengers or cargo. ... The height of the tailfin era; the 1959 Cadillac. ... The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ...

Services to the Faroe Islands, operated almost since conception, ended in 2004, replaced by a code sharing agreement with Faroese carrier Atlantic Airways. Code sharing is also in place with Cimber Air, which took over most of Maersk's domestic services and those to Norway and Sweden. Code sharing is a business term used in the airline industry for a procedure whereby one airline operates a service using its own flight number, e. ... Atlantic Airways is the national airline of the Faroe Islands, operating domestic and international air services from its base at Vágar Airport, on the Faroese island of Vágar. ...

On June 30, 2005, A.P. Moeller-Maersk agreed to sell Maersk Air to Fons Eignarhaldsfelag, the Icelandic group that controls Sterling Airlines and Iceland Express. Fons Eignarhaldsfelag intends to fold Maersk into Sterling and operate under the Sterling name. Fons Eignarhaldsfelag is controlled by partners Palmi Haraldsson and Johannes Kristinsson. Sterling Airlines A/S is a Danish airline, founded in 1994. ... Iceland Express is a low-fare airline based at Keflavík International Airport near Reykjavík, Iceland History The airline began operations in 2003. ...

Destinations

• Austria
  • Vienna (Vienna International Airport)
• Belgium
  • Brussels (Brussels International Airport)
• Denmark
  • Aalborg
  • Billund
  • Copenhagen (Copenhagen Airport)
• France
  • Bastia (from 2006)
  • Bordeaux
  • Marseille
  • Nice (Côte d'Azur International Airport)
  • Paris (Charles De Gaulle)
  • Toulouse
• Egypt
  • Cairo (Cairo International Airport)
• Germany
  • Berlin (Tegel Airport)
  • Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt International Airport)
  • Munich (Munich International Airport)
• Greece
  • Athens (Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport))
  • Salonika (from 2006)
• Italy
  • Catania
  • Florence (from 2006)
  • Milan (Malpensa Airport)
  • Naples (from 2006)
  • Rome (Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport)
  • Venice (Marco Polo International Airport)
• Malta
  • Malta (Malta International Airport)
• Netherlands
  • Amsterdam (Schiphol Airport)
• Poland
  • Warsaw (Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport)
• Portugal
  • Lisbon (Portela Airport)
• Spain
  • Alicante
  • Barcelona (El Prat International Airport)
  • Madrid (Barajas International Airport
  • Málaga
  • Palma de Mallorca
  • Tenerife (Reina Sofía Airport)
  • Gran Canaria
• Switzerland
  • Geneva (Cointrin International Airport)
  • Zurich (Zurich International Airport)
• Turkey
  • Istanbul (Atatürk International Airport)
• United Kingdom
  • London (Gatwick)
  • Manchester (Manchester International Airport)

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Fleet

The Maersk Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (at September 2005): 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• 5 Boeing 737-500
• 13 Boeing 737-700

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External links

• Maersk Air
• Maersk Air Fleet Detail