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Aerolloyd was not the first airline in Poland, but it was the first to offer regular flights and survive. The company enjoyed subsidies from the government of Poland who allowed its aircraft to use military airfields in Poland free of charge for lack of purpose-built civilian airports. The government
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From the very start the company was pressured by the Polish government to "polonise" its staff and shareholders, and to buy planes from Poland's allies rather than from
Germany. However, as Junkers' prices were much lower, the company decided to stick with German aircraft, but bought them from
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but had to limit its activities due to French pressure. Consequently, its aircraft were leased to the new Polish company. They received Polish civilian registrations, but also affectionate male names, the initial of the nickname reflected the last letter in the registration. Thus P-PALB became
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Junkers' Swedish subsidiary rather than from Dessau directly. To counter potential political repercussions, in 1925 the company was renamed to
Aerolot, its former German shareholders were repaid and the company moved its technical base from Danzig's
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Other aircraft received the names of Adam, Bronek, Cezar, Daniel, Edward, Franek, Gustaw, Henryk, Karol, Ludwik, Mietek Janek, Nasiek Tadek, Olek, Paweł, Roman, Stefan and Ursyn.
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and intending to become a fully-fledged airline. Eventually on 28 December 1928 all three companies were nationalised by the Polish government and merged to form
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On 4 January 1927 Ignacy Wygard, the vicepresident of
Aerolot, initiated the creation of Polish Air Union. The union was formed by Aerolot, its main competitor
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airline at
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line, but the aeroplane was returned to the producer after trial flights.
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line was also started. The following year a connection between Warsaw and
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241:'Bronek', P-PALC became 'Cezar', and so on.
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260:, the airline initially operated a Danzig-
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331:transport aircraft flown by pilots from
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27:Former Polish airline
747:"Zanim powstało GTL"
367:Silesian Air Society
319:Junkers F.13 of the
226:Deutscher Aero Lloyd
130:(now Gdańsk, Poland)
89:Commenced operations
981:LOT Polish Airlines
906:. Stackpole Books.
820:Adam Jońca (1985).
588:, pp. 120–121.
576:, pp. 125–129.
383:Deutsche Luft Hansa
375:LOT Polish Airlines
341:Junkers Luftverkehr
300:. In 1926 a Warsaw-
258:Free City of Danzig
222:Norddeutscher Lloyd
198:LOT Polish Airlines
83:Free City of Danzig
59:LOT Polish Airlines
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898:Samuel W. Mitcham
854:(26–06–2013): 1–4
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335:factory in
238:World War I
204:of Poland.
159:(now Lviv,
970:Categories
858:2014-09-11
765:2014-09-11
514:Rydołowski
389:References
356:Copenhagen
348:floatplane
176:Fleet size
111:1928-12-28
96:1922-09-05
73:1922-06-03
36:Aero Lloyd
610:Krajewski
470:Krajewski
453:Krajewski
414:Citations
394:Footnotes
310:Lithuania
251:kilometre
190:Aerolloyd
18:Aerolloyd
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208:History
194:airline
186:Aerolot
161:Ukraine
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