Editing Finnair (section)

=== Founding ===
In 1923, consul Bruno Lucander founded Finnair as '''Aero O/Y''' (''Aero Ltd''). The company code, "AY", stands for Aero [[Osakeyhtiö|Osake-yhtiö]] ("yhtiö" means "company" in Finnish). Lucander had previously run the Finnish operations of the Estonian airline '''Aeronaut'''. In mid 1923, he concluded an agreement with [[Junkers]] Flugzeugwerke AG to provide aircraft and technical support in exchange for a 50% ownership in the new airline. The charter establishing the company was signed in [[Helsinki]] on 12 September 1923, and the company was entered into the trade register on 11 December 1923. The first flight was on 20 March 1924, from Helsinki to [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], on a [[Junkers F.13]] aircraft equipped with floats. The [[seaplane]] service ended in 1936 following the construction of the first [[Airport|aerodromes]] in Finland.<ref name=WAD>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1983/1983%20-%200592.html|title=World Airline Directory|work=Flight International|date=2 April 1983|page=904|access-date=2 November 2019}}</ref>