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History
AIRNAUTIC AG was registered on 21 February 1958 with the Register
of Commerce in Basel, by its founder and present president of
the board, Léon Meier.
Originally its business activities included the representation
of Airlines and Steamship Companies for cargo and passengers
and Air Charter Brokerage.
In 1992 the successful steamship department was sold to its
managers, who created a new independent company. This enabled
AIRNAUTIC AG to concentrate all its activities on Air Transportation.
Later the passenger activities were given up, allowing to specialize
on AIR CARGO only.
The following chapters will therefore only highlight some of
the passed Air Cargo activities:
The first Airline represented in 1958 was SEABOARD & WESTERN,
which was operating with 10 Super Constellations scheduled for
Transatlantic Flights. AIRNAUTIC AG became responsible for the
Basel Airport and its sales region. In 1961 the name of the
airline was changed to SEABOARD WORLD AIRLINES and the new CL44
freighters with the swing tail have been ordered.
TMA TRANS MEDITERRANEAN AIRWAYS, Beirut, was the first freighter
airline flying to Basel in 1955. When they had to reorganize
their freight operations, AIRNAUTIC AG became their GSA in Basel.
With their fleet of DC4, DC6 and later CL44 aircraft they had
a wide network to the Middle East, which was supplemented by
Sea-Air Services via Beirut.
BRITISH AIR FERRIES Southend (previously Channel Air Bridge).
We had successfully suggested to BAF the selection of Southend-Basel
and Southend-Geneva for the Car Ferry Service to be operated
with the CARVAIR (converted DC4) which carried up to 5 cars
or cargo plus 22 passengers in the rear. It was an ideal aircraft
to carry also large machines with up to 4.5 tons. Later the
name of the airline was changed to British United Air Ferries,
when it was taken over by BUA.
PAN AM. Up to the close down of this company, AIRNAUTIC AG used
to represent them in Switzerland for their flights ex ZRH /
GVA.
In its long history of more than 50 years, AIRNAUTIC AG also has also been
able to participate in the various developments
of Air Cargo Charters as a Charter Broker / Wholesaler. As such
we started cooperations with different other airlines.
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