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ABA - AB Aerotransport
Sweden
(Swedish Air Lines)
ABA - AB Aerotransport flew its first flight in the summer of 1924 between Stockholm and Helsinki.
Before WWII, ABA operated the Scandinavian Air Express jointly with KLM between Scandinavia
and London/Paris via Amsterdam, and jointly with Aero O/Y between Sweden and Finland.
Several different Scandinavian Air Express timetables were published, often showing ABA's entire network.
Operations were curtailed during the war, though maintained on a limited basis, including courier flights to and from Scotland.
In 1948, ABA merged with SILA, the Swedish intercontinental airline, which was the Swedish part of the SAS consortium,
also consisting of DDL - Danish Air Lines and DNL - Norwegian Air Lines. In the process, ABA took over
the Swedish share
of SAS.
SAS - Scandinavian Airlines System had been founded in 1946, initially to operate the intercontinental
routes of its owners.
Also in 1948, the European and domestic routes of these
airlines were flown under the SAS banner.
In 1951, all routes were transferred
to SAS in its own rights.
From then on, ABA has acted as the Swedish holding
company of SAS, being renamed SAS Sverige in the mid-nineties.
BL
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(From the collection of Gunnar Saltin)
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BL
Joint KLM/ABA timetable
France-Netherlands-Scandinavia route
French edition
(From the collection of Will Porrio)
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(From the collection of Gunnar Saltin)
BL
BL
Joint KLM/ABA timetable
UK/France-Netherlands-Scandinavia route
UK edition
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BL
BL
BL
Routes to/from Malmö
(From the collection of Philip Chuang; image courtesy of Tom Heitzman)
BL
Routes to/from Stockholm
(From the collection of Gunnar Saltin)
BL
BL
BL
Routemap (network) timetable
(System)
(From the collection of Mikael Öqvist)
BL
(From the collection of Gunnar Saltin)
(From the collection of Mikael Öqvist)
(From the collection of Daniel Kusrow)
DZ
Joint ABA/Aeroflot timetable
Stockholm-Moscow route ("Moscow Air Express")
(From the collection of Michael Dawes)
BL
Routemap (network) timetable
(System)
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Joint ABA/Aeroflot timetable
Stockholm-Moscow route
(From the collection of Gunnar Saltin)
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Routemap (network) timetable
(System)
(From the collection of Gunnar Saltin)
BL
BL
(From the collection of Mikael Öqvist)
BL
(Image from an ABA/SILA booklet of June 1946 titled "Fågelvägen - en presentation i ord och bild av ABA-SILA")
(From the collection of Gérard Morel)
BL
BL
DZ
BL
BL
BL
(From the collection of Mikael Öqvist)
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BL
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There is an article called AB Aerotransport and the Junkers G 24.
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This page last updated October 27, 2007.
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