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Defunct Swedish airline, 1943–1948
Svensk Interkontinental Lufttrafik AB , SILA , trading internationally as Swedish Intercontinental Airlines , was an airline formed in 1943
[1] by banker
Marcus Wallenberg Jr.
[2]
[3] An early president of the airline was
Per Norlin .
[4] In August 1946 with
Danish Air Lines and
Norwegian Air Lines it became a part of a three-airline consortium
[5] (later four, with
AB Aerotransport ) that would eventually merge on 30 June 1948 with a pooled capitalization of $25 million as
Scandinavian Airlines .
[6] The airline operated
Douglas DC-4
[7] and
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft.
In 1946, the company was asked by a group of Jewish Americans if it could transport about two thousand wealthy Jewish Poles out of Poland, to then fly to the United States to resettle there. Given a scarcity of aircraft (SILA operated only a twice-weekly schedule between Stockholm and Warsaw), the airline was not able to take action on the request.
[8] The airline was also a part of the 1946 introduction of United States
airmail service to Copenhagen and Stockholm.
[9]
References
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"Sweden Plans a Big Merger of Airlines" . Messenger-Inquirer . Owensboro, Kentucky. Associated Press. October 23, 1947. Retrieved September 30, 2020 .
^ Millbrooke, Anne (2008).
Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Alphabets of Aviation . Xlibris US. p. 556.
ISBN
9781462818433 .
^
Buraas, Anders (1972). Fly over fly: Historien om SAS (in Norwegian). Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag.
ISBN
82-05-00891-4 .
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"Urges Agreement on Ocean Air Rate" . Brooklyn Daily Eagle . January 5, 1946. Retrieved September 30, 2020 .
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"Scandanavian Air System Is Formed" . Honolulu Star-Bulletin . Associated Press. August 19, 1946. Retrieved September 30, 2020 .
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"All Scandinavian Air Lines to Merge" . Boston Globe . February 11, 1948. Retrieved September 30, 2020 .
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"International Airlines Now Operating Douglas DC-4 Equipment" . San Francisco Examiner . August 29, 1946. Retrieved September 30, 2020 .
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"Asked Passage for Jews: Swedish Air Line Official Discloses Request for Transport" . Kansas City Star . Associated Press. January 5, 1946. Retrieved September 30, 2020 .
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"Air Mail Flights to Denmark, Sweden" . The News-Messenger . Fremont, Ohio. September 23, 1946. Retrieved September 30, 2020 .
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