Airline Name
Aero Lloyd (Aero Lloyd Flugreisen GmbH & Co - Luftverkehrsgesellschaft KG)IATA: YP / ICAO: AEF / CALLSIGN: AERO LLOYD
Founded in 1979 (Sep. 6th), commenced operations in 1981 (Mar.), ceased operations in 2003 (Oct. 16th)
(Investor withdrawal, which led to insolvency; later reformed into Aero Flight)I was actually going to include Aero Flight here until I realized at the very last minute that it was already suggested… oh well lol, go check that suggestion above if you like this one.
Country of Origin
Germany / Federal Republic of Germany ()
Main Hub(s): Frankfurt Airport (FRA), Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL), Cologne/Bonn Airport (CGN), Friedrichshafen Airport (FDH), Hamburg Airport (HAM), Hannover Airport (HAJ), Leipzig - Halle Airport (LEJ), Linz Airport (LNZ), Munich Airport (MUC), Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB), Salzburg Airport (SZG), Stuttgart Airport (STR)
Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
(For this airline, some types are available in WoA, some not.)Aircraft operated (already in-game):
Airbus A320 (A320-200, A321-200, A320/A321) - 25 former.
(14/11 for both variants, respectively.)
(Pictured below: Airbus A320-200 D-ALAE - now known as D-ATRA)Next, here’s an interesting alternative livery (leased?) variant of their A320:
(Pictured below: Airbus A320-200 D-ABLB - later broken up, known as N370CL at end of its life)As for the A321s:
(Pictured below: Airbus A321-200 D-ALAO - now known as VH-ULY)Next up, here’s an example of what I can assume to be a 20-year anniversary sticker:
(Pictured below: Airbus A321-200 D-ALAG - later broken up, known as EI-ETK at end of its life)Now, here’s one of two special liveries ran by the airline, “FC Bayern Munchen”:
(Pictured below: Airbus A321-200 D-ALAM - now known as N410GX)As for the other special livery, it was known as “Trigema”, advertising a German clothing manufacturer:
(Pictured below: Airbus A321-200 D-ALAK - now known as SU-TCP)Aircraft operated (not in-game):
McDonnell Douglas DC-9 (-32, DC93) - 4 former.
(Pictured below: D-ALLA - status unknown, now known as XA-UDE)If the stripes happen to look familiar, I believe it’s because most DC-9s came from Garuda Indonesia (except one, D-ALLD), who happened to have those very stripes on their aircraft.
As for this next, later livery though, I believe it was Aero Lloyd’s original scheme:
(Pictured below: D-ALLC - later scrapped, known as ZS-TGR at end of its life)McDonnell Douglas MD-80 (-82, -83, -87, MD82/MD83/MD87) - 22 former.
(2/16/4 for each variant, respectively.)
(Pictured below: McDonnell Douglas MD-82 D-ALLS - later scrapped, known as N923TW at end of its life)This next livery example is a sort of one-off, incomplete livery; I’m unsure as to why it wasn’t fully completed at the time, but I’ll include it regardless:
(Pictured below: Ditto, same aircraft as above)Next, for the MD-83:
(Pictured below: McDonnell Douglas MD-83 D-ALLU - later broken up, known as EC-KCX at end of its life)Here’s one of the earlier paint scheme examples again:
(Pictured below: McDonnell Douglas MD-83 D-ALLP - now known as I-SMEN, preserved)And now, the last member of the airline’s MD-80 family:
(Pictured below: McDonnell Douglas MD-87 D-ALLG - now known as N111RE)Just before I move on though, here’s the earlier paint scheme on this type:
(Pictured below: McDonnell Douglas MD-87 D-ALLH - now known as XA-TPM, preserved)And finally, the last part of the fleet:
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle (10R, 10B1R, S210) - 3 former.
(1/2 for both variants, respectively.)
(Pictured below: Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle 10R D-ACVK - later scrapped)And of course, here’s the later, though not final, airline livery on the Caravelle:
(Pictured below: Ditto, same aircraft as above)Now, onto the other Caravelle variant:
(Pictured below: Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle 10B1R D-AAST - later scrapped)Here’s the ‘later’ Caravelle livery as well:
(Pictured below: Ditto, same aircraft as above)Now, before I end this suggestion off, there’s just one last Caravelle I wanted to show, given it had quite a few unique liveries; this next one shows it leased out(?) to ZAS (ZAS Airline of Egypt):
(Pictured below: Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle 10B1R D-ABAK - now known as 10507, preserved)(Pictured below: Ditto, same aircraft as above)
The same livery and aircraft, but with a silver scheme (which I believe only this airframe ever had):
(Pictured below: I think you get the idea by now)And finally, an all-white livery (besides operator text):
Why should this airline be added?
I’d say that this airline should be added because of its historical significance, and the very unique fleet it operated over the years. Not only would the airline make amazing event material, especially in the case of their Caravelles, but I think that the notable number of liveries, both standard and special, would make this airline definitely stand out, even if it’s event or special contracts only.
(though I personally do think the “2010s rule” should be modified a bit…)Now when it comes to special contracts (yes, I really like them, how could you guess?) or just contracts in general, I think that they could work well at either LEJ or ZRH. LEJ was one of their hubs and has no special “native” contracts as of now, and they operated (scheduled) services to both ZRH at one point. They could also work at a potential future German airport, though I honestly don’t expect one to be added anytime soon.
As a sidenote though, London was listed as one of their destinations through various sources I saw, but it was not specified if it was London Heathrow or a different airport, like London City or Gatwick (though I did see an image of one of their aircraft at Gatwick, so…)Either way though, to summarize, I think this airline should be added because, even if it remains event-only, it still has a very unique fleet packed with lots of liveries and variations, with a few special liveries mixed in, and could work well as a permanent contract at a German airport, such as LEJ. Besides special contracts though, they would also be a great event airline for Europe as a whole.
Sources:
Aero Lloyd’s Planespotters.net Page
Aero Lloyd’s Wikipedia Page
Aero Lloyd’s Destinations (2002-2003 Period)