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Società Aerea Mediterranea –
S.A.M (Italy 1923)
Already
during the setup phase of Transeuropa Union Junkers intended to built a
routing from Zurich to Genua, Naples and Brindisi with extensions to Athens
and Smyrna. The Italian network was established at Naples, where the General
Manager Rota of the Grand Hotel
Napoli was
responsible for the routing from Genua to Naples and Brindisi. Similar
discussions were on its way in Greece. It was intended to open scheduled
services on that route in August 1923. Società Aerea Mediterranea was under foundation at that time. However,
due to the Italian occupation of the Island of Korfu in August 1923, the
opening of the route was further delayed. A new approach for an operational
start was taken in 1925, when a routing from Italy to Albania and Tunis was
certified by the Italian Government. But it took until March 1928 to
establish S.A.M. General Francesco de Pinedo
became the first chairman of the director board of S.A.M. However, this
operational start was completely independent from the Junkers activites and
flights from Rome to Caligari had to wait until 21st April 1928.
S.A.M. later merged with Transadriatica into Ala Littoria, which was
forerunner of todays Alitalia. Società Anonima
Transadriatica (Italy 1925) In
October 1924 Junkers discussed the routing from Vienna to Trieste with a
possible extension to Rome with Carl
Kuppelwieser,
another hotel manager at Brioni. These discussions led to the foundation of Società Anonima Transadriatica in 1925 and it was intended to start
operations in 1926 between Venice and Rome with an extension to Vienna. The
aircraft should be supplied by Junkers Flugzeugwerke and S.A. Transadriatica
was intending to provide its services within the newly formed Europa Union.
However, due to the collapse of Junkers Luftverkehr operations were started
in 1926 as an internal Italian service between Venice and Rome. Regular
service were inaugerated on 1st February 1927. On 19th
April 1927 this service was extended to Vienna and in 1931 a service to
Munich was established in cooperation with Luft Hansa. Other
Routings to Brindisi and Monaco were introduced in 1928. In December 1931
S.A. Transadriatica was merged with Società Aerea Mediterranea.
Transadriatica Tag of 1926 Union Aerea
Espanola (U.A.E., Spain 1925) Spain
was a special market for the German Aviation Industry. Since the early 20s
Zeppelin Luftschiffbau was investigating routes from Germany to South
America. In 1922 discussions were started between Zeppelin and Compania
Transaerea Columbus about a routing through Spain, from La Coruna to New York
and from Sevilla to Buenos Aires. Therefore Junkers was interested in
connecting Germany and Spain with feeder flights for the Zeppelin
Transatlantic Flights.On 28th November 1925 Junkers founded Union Aerea Espanola together with a group of aeronautical industrials at
Getafe. Junkers took a 25% share package in exchange for three Junkers F13
aircraft. It was intended, that U.A.E. should operate routes from Madrid to
Lisboa and from Madrid to Italy or Switzerland to connect the Iberian aera to
the Transeuropa network. A
few days after the foundation, Junkers Luftverkehr lost its control about its
own management and was integrated into Luft Hansa A.G. in January 1926. As a
consequence the Junkers support for the U.A.E. operation was lost. As U.A.E.
did not manage to achieve its operational rights, the three Junkers aircraft
were finally delivered to the Spanish Red Cross, which used the aircraft in
the Marocco campaigns of the Spanish Army. But on 29th April 1927
U.A.E. managed to start its operation from Madrid to Lisbon and from Seville
to Lisbon. Both routes were operated by U.A.E. in cooperation with Servicos Aereos Portugueses in Portugal, which was
another airline founded by Junkers in 1925. S.A.P. worked as an handling
agent for U.A.E. in Portugal. Later Madrid to Seville was added to the U.A.E.
network, which now became a closed triangle. Even if the Junkers support was
no longer available, U.A.E. used Junkers G24 trimotors on its services. In
February 1929 U.A.E. was integrated into the newly formed monopol company
C.L.A.S.S.A. Traffic Rights and the G24 were transferred to C.L.A.S.S.A.,
while U.A.E. kept two F13 and still operated the Sevilla to Granada charter
route during the Latin-American Exhibition at Sevilla. U.A.E. received 12% of
C.L.A.S.S.A. shares and following the closure of the Latin-American
Exhibition U.A.E. was finally dissolved in January 1931. Further Reading
about U.A.E. at
La Aviación Comercial en
el Espacio Aéreo Español
U.A.E. / S.A.P.
Timetable1927 Serviços
Aéreos Portugueses Limitada – SAP (Portugal 1922)
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