Linjeflyg was a Swedish domestic airline, formed in 1957 as a domestic subsidiary by

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and Airtaco as well as by newspaper publishers

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AB and Stockholms-Tidningen AB.

History

Airtaco (founded in August 1950 as Aero Scandia) can be considered as Linjeflyg's predecessor and was merged into the new airline, including its entire fleet.Svensk flyghistoria under 1900-talet, S. 170-171 When Linjeflyg was founded, Airtaco's four

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s and four

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s were integrated into the new fleet.''Linjeflyg – de första fem åren''. Svensk Flyghistorisk Tidskrift, ISSN 1100-9837, February 2018 (Swedish), p. 45. In October 1983 Linjeflyg moved from Stockholm Bromma Airport in the central part of

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to Stockholm Arlanda Airport in the north of Stockholm. Bromma had been the main hub for Linjeflyg since 1957. On 10 September 1990

(SAS) sold their 50% in Linjeflyg to Bilspedition for 475 million Swedish crowns (SEK). Approximately six months later SAS bought it back. In February 1992 Linjeflyg became too big a threat for SAS, because it planned a strategic alliance with Braathens and

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. Such an alliance would have been too competitive for SAS on the intra-Scandinavian capital routes and on domestic flights. Consequently SAS bought the 50% of Linjeflyg that it did not already own, to maintain its market dominance. On 1 January 1993 Linjeflyg was merged into SAS. Linjeflyg was Sweden's largest domestic airline. It served over 20 domestic airports and carried over 5 million people annually. Linjeflyg had 2200 employees in 1992, and was at that time the largest

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operator in the world.

Fleet

Incidents and accidents

*On 20 November 1964 Flight 267V, operated by Convair 440 SE-CCK, crashed during an approach to Ängelholm joint civil/military Airport. In instrument conditions, the crew abandoned the set procedure and began the final approach too early. The reason for this must have been that the crew allowed themselves to be misled by an arrangement of lights peculiar to the airfield with which, apart from certain information received during the approach, they were not acquainted. Thirty-one of the 43 people aboard were killed in Sweden's worst air disaster. *On 15 January 1977 Flight 618, operated by

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SE-FOZ leased from

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, crashed at

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on approach to Bromma Airport,

owing to ice accretion on the tailplane leading to a loss of control. All 22 people on board were killed.

References

Notes

Bibliography

* Edlund, Ulf; Andersson, Lennart; Berns, Lennart; Stridsberg, Sven: ''Svensk flyghistoria under 1900-talet''. Stockholm: Svensk Flyghistorisk Förening, 2003. ISSN 1100-9837.

External links

linjeflyg.info - private website about Linjeflyg
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