Concessionaire of Subsidized Airlines, S.A. (CLASSA) was a Spanish airline, created on May 13, 1929 and which made its first flight on May 27, 1929 between Getafe (Madrid) and Seville.
It was created at the request of the Military Directorate to form a monopoly with a single company that grouped all existing at that time in Spain (Iberia LAE, Spanish Air Union (UAE), Spanish Aviation Company, Spanish Air Traffic Company (CETA) and the company of airships Transaérea Colón). All of them were forced to contribute their routes and planes to the newly created CLASSA, but they retained part of CLASSA's shareholding.
The new company obtained the contract of air transport on November 23, 1929. CLASSA began operating on May 27, 1929 the Madrid-Seville line of the UAE; on June 20 the Iberia Madrid-Barcelona line; On September 30 the line Sevilla-Larache and reached an agreement for the joint exploitation of the Madrid-Biarritz-Paris line with the Compagnie Générale Aéropostale. At the beginning of 1931, CLASSA established the aeropostal connection with the Canary Islands through the Seville-Larache-Casablanca-Agadir-Cabo Juby-Las Palmas line.
After the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, the totality of public air services was nationalized, suspending the contract between CLASSA and the State, seizing the assets of the company and transferring them to a public company of new creation. On September 23, 1931, the contract between CLASSA and the State was declared null and void, the airmail lines operated by CLASSA passed into the hands of the company Spanish Aeropostal Lines LAPE, which saw its exploitation rights recognized by the Law of April 8 of 1932. Between 1932 and 1933, LAPE's air service was limited to the Madrid-Seville and Madrid-Barcelona lines. In March 1934, the service with the Canary Islands was restarted and in September of that same year the Madrid-Valencia line was opened. A year later, in 1935, the Barcelona-Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona-Valencia and Valencia-Palma de Mallorca lines intermittently operated. At the beginning of the summer of 1936, the line of the Canary Islands was prolonged with the link Las Palmas-Tenerife. All CLASSA shareholders received compensation for this. Bibliography
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