PVD757 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3375 posts, RR: 18 Reply 1, posted (7 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 3058 times:
...apparently Avensa should have merged with Pan Am - not much overlap in liveries that's for sure!!!
2travel2know From Panama, joined Apr 2005, 3580 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (7 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2963 times:
How about the original Air Panama?
The short-lived Aero Costa Rica?
Lanica from Nicaragua?
Dominicana de Aviación?
Saeta from Ecuador?
Peruvian Faucett?
Planenutz From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 1267 posts, RR: 12 Reply 5, posted (7 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2948 times:
OB1783P From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 325 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (7 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 2928 times:
Well, i flew Avensa and Aces. Avensa i flew once and i dont remeber well. I was like 5 or 6. I only remeber the landing in BOG was very rough.
Aces, i flew many times. Twice to Manizales, once to Armenia and ocne to Ft. Lauderdale. Got to fly on the A320, ATR and DHC Twin Otter, which was actually my first flight.
TR763 From Brazil, joined Mar 2001, 769 posts, RR: 16 Reply 8, posted (7 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2859 times:
Nice memories? I´d say the best memories of aviation in my life! Have a look at my user name: TR763 - this means something!
Tranbrasil - the greatest airline that Brazil have ever seen in it´s skies!
The crew were simply fantastic! They treated us as we were kings! I remember very well of a F/A called Katia on a flight from GRU to MCO, aboard a 767-300... what a treatment she reserved to HER passengers! For sure, an airline that I miss a lot! Besides it´s beautiful planes, giving lots of colors to the airports and skies!
It was part of my life!
Planenutz From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 1267 posts, RR: 12 Reply 11, posted (7 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2823 times:
Sampa737 From Brazil, joined May 2005, 637 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (7 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2812 times:
Quoting TR763 (Reply 8): Nice memories? I´d say the best memories of aviation in my life! Have a look at my user name: TR763 - this means something
I agree with you there! TB was one of the best.
No one mentioned Vasp! Or, should they? I wonder if we should give way to another thread on the lookouts for future "Rest In Peace" airlines? Say, Varig?
Lanica was a Sandinista airline and it was forbiden to fly to the USA.
Nica started after the sandinistas left the nicarguan government.
Their owners were not the same, neither their aircraft.
TACAA320 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 22, posted (7 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 2726 times:
Quoting 2travel2know (Reply 21): Their owners were not the same, neither their aircraft.
That's precisely what I asked before.
You said that "Their owners were not the same, neither their aircraft". I agree with you with the second part [about the aircrafts, which in the bottom is not important at all]. But how do you know that their owners were not the same?
BTW I find such point also senseless. It could be the same case as AV before and after Efromovich. Is it or not the same airline? I think IS the same.
Lanica was first property of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. And back in the 70's Howard Hughes [sorry but don't know if I wrote such last name correctly] he gifted the airline [Somoza' family. Remember that HH lived in Nicaragua at the very end of his life] with two beautiful aircrafts that I can barely remember.
757MDE From Colombia, joined Sep 2004, 1753 posts, RR: 7 Reply 24, posted (7 years 5 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 2701 times:
Quoting RICARIZA (Reply 3): Never flew on them, but another two defunct Colombian Airlines:
Aerotal and Aerocondor.
Aerocondor was a top notch Airline for what I've read and heard.
They had the first A-300 in Latin America (HK-2057), they were sort of the Aces of their time (the second Airline in Colombia and harsh competition to Avianca), they went belly up because of mismanagement, it was sold two times but the it seems only the founders could run the Airline, it went bankrupt in the early 80s. The Pilots lasted a year negociating for a revival, but the financial conditions were so bad that it was impossible.
I know an ex-Aerocondor Curtiss, Electra and 707 captain! (he also flew DC-8s for Arca Cargo)
Aces is definitely missed as well!.
I gladly accept donations to pay for flight hours! This thing draws man...
25 Jrodri1: With both AeroPeru, Faucett and AeroContinente gone, there are no more true national airlines in Peru. LanPeru is fully-owned by LanChile (although th
26 LH459: You mean Trump Shuttle? I'm sure he meant TR.
28 777ER: The Name Qantas New Zealand died when Tasman Pacific Airlines went bust, yes QF is still operating in New Zealand but under a totally different name-
29 TACAA320: Isn't this thread about LatAm carriers?
30 Luisde8cd: Interflug Oh wait, this thread is about Latin American airlines, duh! Hehe, after a little joke here are some Latin American airlines that have disapp
31 Luisca: Air Panama, once considered one of the best airlines in the region, went belly up because the now disappeared Panamanian airforce nationalized it and
32 Juanchito: Aeroquetzal from Guatemala also is gone. Regards Juanchito
33 FlySSC: Like TR763, my "thoughts" go to Transbrasil ...and its "old" colorscheme particularly. A great airline, great crews ... A true Brasilian taste in the
36 JJMNGR: TR was really a fantastic airline. I had the chance to fly on their BAC-1-11 when I was very young ans so as all the other aircrafts in the fleet. But
37 Aer: I was to young to remember it, but it would be cool if it made a come back.
38 Il75: I believe we are forgetting Cruzeiro do Sul, a long lasting Brazilian airline partially owned by Varig since the seventies and finally terminated in t
39 Lamedianaranja: I have so many good memories of Viasa. Luis' (reply 30) signature says it all: Viasa we miss you. But I don't think good times will ever return!
40 JJMNGR: YES! CZ was also great with also B732, B721 and AB3 operating in CGH!!! Great livery. I expected to see some DC-10 on that livery...would be great.
42 2travel2know: Nowadays, Shouldn't we be including VASP in the list of Latinamerican Airlines gone?
43 RICARIZA: Same here. I used to travel to Maracaibo and take Viasa from there. And someother times from BOG...
44 JJMNGR: Aero, TR stop their operations for about 5 years. They had many problems with bad management, debits with Government and suppliers in general. Very si
45 Carmenlu15: Oh, the memories of my first flight, in one of those planes... But don't be so quick to kill the airline, that last time I checked GU still flies to
46 Aer: Hehe, I love that livery. GU flies but as Inter/Taca you won't really see the name Aviateca per se, I mean look at the A/C they painted the name on t
47 AV757: Also now extinct Area Ecuador (Aerovias Ecuatorianas) who flew last with a DeHavilland Comet 4 and operated from 1949 till 1972. AV757
48 MGA: This is how it goes: Lanica was gonernment owned (Somoza period). Transformed to Aeronica, Government owned (Sandinistas). They used Russian built pl
49 TACAA320: Sorry my friend. Sansa never ever flew MIA nor MGA. Sansa is a local [regional] Costarican carrier now part of GRUPO TACA. You may check that info in
50 Carmenlu15: I might be mistaken (or maybe lacking sleep), but wasn't that a case of same name, different airlines? Saludozzzz
51 MGA: Carmen is right. Sansa is Taca regional for Costa Rica. SANSA Nicaragua is "Servicios Aereos de Nicaragua" http://www.airlinehistory.co.uk/americas/N
52 JCS: I still love VASP. About a good year ago, august 2004, had great times during 12 VASP flights in 2,5 Weeks through GRU - BEL - MAO - BSB - SSA - CNF a
54 Arcano: Yeah they did for a year, It's room was taken by National, later Avant, later Aerocontinente, later Sky ... There was some "Aerochile" in the 90s wic
55 Derico: Darn, that Inter color/font scheme may not be the most beautiful, but it's certainly catchy and original. Too bad they are gone.
56 MGA: Couldnt let go of the thought, I need these Nicaraguan oldies in here! MGA P.S. Sorry about the Aeronica plane in so bad shape but I wanted to show y
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