Aero Lloyd Aero Lloyd Aero Lloyd Flugreisen GmbH & Co, operating as Aero Lloyd, was a German charter airline based in Oberursel, Germany. It was headquartered in Building 182 at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt before it was moved to Oberursel. Aero Lloyd was founded on 20 December 1980 and launched operations in March 1981 with three Sud Aviation Caravelle's. By 1982, the airline received 3 ex-Garuda Indonesia Douglas DC-9-32 aircraft. In 1986, the airline began to receive McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft to allow it to expand to further destinations. In 1988, Aero Lloyd launched scheduled services to London in the United Kingdom,
Deutsche Luft Hansa League, a powerful mediaeval trading group). The airline was created by a merger between "Deutscher Aero Lloyd" (an airline formed in 1923 out of the earlier airline DLR or Deutsche Luft-Reederei by AEG, Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and Dornier as a co-operation between the shipping companies "Norddeutscher Lloyd" and Hamburg America Line) and "Junkers Luftverkehr", the in-house airline of Junkers. This action was taken due to an initiative of the German government which hoped to reduce the amount of financial support it provided to the two partly state-owned airlines, which were both plagued by heavy debts at that time.The stylised flying crane