AVENSA

Avensa ( Sociedad Anonima Aerovias Venezolanas ) is a Venezuelan airline. The company carries out since 2002 no international flights more until early 2009 served Avensa with only one Embraer EMB 120 national line route between Caracas and Mérida.

History

Avensa was developed in collaboration between Pan American World Airways ( PAN AM), the Boulton family and the Venezuelan government established in 1943. The participation of the construction of the PAN AM Avensa can still be seen at the finish of the machines today. Over the decades they conformed to his example in the United States in the finish.

The original aim of the Avensa was to operate for the PAN AM as a feeder from the Venezuelan surface. Only after the mid-1970s PAN AM withdraws from participation in some adventures in Latin America, as well as from Avensa, a new era begins. Some routes to neighboring countries (Colombia, Aruba, Curacao, Mexico and Panama) are included, as well as Miami and New York.

Mid-1980s are received within the Andean Pact ( Medellín, Quito, Guayaquil and Lima) distances. The route Caracas - Panama - Mexico City is flown in cooperation with Mexicana de Aviación from the late 80s.

In the early 1990s will be consulted for a short time as the third partner, the Air Panama. In 1989 Avensa up a subsidiary company under the name Servivensa ( Servicios Avensa ) with the main aim of the so-called ' social distances ' ( Tucupita, Güiria, San Fernando de Apure, Puerto Ayacucho, Anaco, Guanare, Coro, Acarigua ) inside Venezuela to use. The project fails after a few months, as the government funding was not sufficient on the various routes to cover the high cost of using McDonnell Douglas DC -9- 32 these routes. Beginning of the 90 must Avensa fight against increasing costs and chooses some routes to Servivensa to relocate, as they possessed at the time of a simple cost structure (comparable to today's low cost airlines ). In particular, the decentralized Miami routes (Barquisimeto and Valencia) and the so -called ' Lechero Andino ' (Andean milkman ) on the route Caracas - Bogota - Quito -Lima are several years of successful Servivensa served as of Avensa.

In 1997 Avensa takes short route rights located at the time in resolution VIASA to Spain, Portugal and Italy. Two McDonnell Douglas DC -10-30 be rented from Varig stocks according to Madrid, Tenerife, Santiago de Compostela, Lisbon, Porto, Rome and Milan can use. However, the European adventure takes Avensa on thin ice. In the following years, Avensa will face major financial problems and is forced to change some routes and others leave to Servivensa. First, almost all domestic traffic is transmitted, later every Caribbean, North, Central and South America routes. There are also problems in the procurement of spare parts for the ever- aging fleet, consisting of a colorful mixture of McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30/50, Boeing 727-100/200 and Boeing 737-200 models. Parts of your fleet will be scrapped in Caracas and used as spare parts. In 2001, the European routes to be abandoned, which are then taken up later in 2002 by Santa Barbara Airlines partially. At the end of 2002, the leadership of Avensa is forced to adjust the flight operations. At this time, yet there are two routes ( Caracas Merida and Caracas - Canaima ) in Avensa flight plan. As the only active aircraft an Embraer EMB 120 will be used. The rest of the fleet was scrapped in 2007. Whether Avensa in the Venezuelan market has a chance is uncertain. In recent years, the various Venezuelan competitors like Aeropostal, Aserca Airlines, Santa Barbara Airlines, Rutaca, LASER, Avior and Conviasa new government have divided the market, leaving little space for the airline.

Destinations ( before 2002 )

Venezuela: Caracas, Valencia (Venezuela ), Barquisimeto, Cabimas, Maracaibo, Coro, Las Piedras, Mérida, Valera, Barinas, Acarigua, Guanare, San Antonio del Tachira, Santo Domingo, San Fernando, Puerto Ayacucho, Anaco, San Tome, Maturin, Barcelona, ​​Porlamar, Ciudad Bolivar, Puerto Ordaz, Canaima, Santa Elena de Uairén, Puerto Cabello, Tucupita, Cumana, Carupano, Güiria, Kamarata, Icabarú, Kavanayen

International: Bogota, Medellin, Panama, Mexico City, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Miami, New York, Quito, Lima, Guayaquil, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Tenerife, Milan, Rome, Lisbon, Porto.

Fleet

Avensa operation, inter alia, following aircraft types:

  • Beechcraft King Air 90
  • Boeing 727-100/-200
  • Boeing 737-200/-300
  • Boeing 757-200
  • Convair CV -340
  • Convair CV-440
  • Convair CV 580
  • Curtiss C-46 Commando
  • Douglas DC-2
  • Douglas DC-3
  • Douglas DC-4
  • Douglas DC-6
  • Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia
  • Fairchild F-27
  • McDonnell Douglas DC-9-10/30/50
  • McDonnell Douglas DC -10-30
IATA-Code International Civil Aviation Organization airport code Curaçao Valencia, Carabobo SBA Airlines Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Santa Ana de Coro Canaima National Park
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