From 1971 to 1995 Maersk participated in Danair, which held a monopoly on all domestic services.
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29 Facts About Maersk Air
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From 1981 Maersk Air started international flights, first out of Billund and from the 1990s out of Copenhagen.
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Maersk Air held the position for two years until he was replaced by another Norwegian, Johan Paus, former CEO of Scanair.
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Maersk Air was contracted by Maersk Oil to operate to the latter's oil field in the North Sea.
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Maersk Air started hitting problems with liquidity and in 1981 was not able to pay its employees wages.
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Maersk Air decided to look for possibilities to fly international routes.
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Maersk Air bought the company in 1984 and bought two Short 360s.
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Maersk Air inaugurated the route on 29 November 1984 with two round trips, using Dash 7s.
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Maersk Air considered both Arhus and Billund as the base for their Jutland operations, and settled for Billund.
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From 1990 Maersk Air was free to compete on any intra-European international route.
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Maersk Air was barred from operating a cargo fleet until deregulation in 1987.
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Maersk Air began services from Billund to Frankfurt in 1993, and a year later it started flights from Copenhagen to Kristiansand.
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Unlike Cimber, Maersk Air initially declined to participate in SAS' frequent-flyer program, EuroBonus, which was founded in 1992.
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Maersk Air would adopt EuroBonus and codeshare all domestic flights, flights out of Copenhagen and select Billund services.
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Maersk Air agreed to—gradually so to not awake suspicion—withdraw from its various codeshare agreements with other airlines than SAS.
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Maersk Air was struck by a series of labor disputes in 1998 and 1999.
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Maersk Air was therefore sold in a management buyout in 2003, with the airline becoming Duo Airways.
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Maersk Air devised a new strategy, in which the airline would better utilize its fleet by placing flights closer to each other and flying throughout the day.
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Maersk Air proposed competing head-on with SAS, as he believed that Maersk Air with the new strategy could operate with lower costs than the consortium.
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Since 2002 Maersk Air had seen competition in the scheduled market from Sterling, which had reorganized itself as a low-cost carrier targeting the Mediterranean leisure market.
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Maersk Air was an early customer of the Fokker 50, of which the first was delivered in 1988.
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From 1974 to 1999 Maersk Air operated a helicopter division out of Esbjerg Airport.
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In 1994 Maersk Air bought out the other owners of Copenhagen Air Services.
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In 1998 Maersk Air merged the company with the ground handling company owned by the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration, creating Novia.
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Maersk Air has been subject to three write-off accidents, of which one resulted in fatalities:.
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