"Copa Airlines Colombia Copa Airlines Colombia is a commercial passenger airline founded and registered under the corporate name of Aero República S.A. in November 1992, and is the second airline in Colombia for international passengers carried after Avianca and the third in total traffic. It covers national and international destinations from the El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá and from the main cities of Colombia. As of October 5, 2010, the airline used the trade name of Copa Airlines Colombia. The national operations of Copa Airlines Colombia were replaced by a new low-cost airline subsidized by its parent company Copa"
"Avianca Costa Rica Avianca Costa Rica, formerly known as LACSA (""Spanish: Lineas Aéreas Costarricenses S.A.""), minority owned by the Synergy Group, is the national airline of Costa Rica and is based in San José. It operates international scheduled services to over 35 destinations in Central, North and South America. The airline previously used the TACA/LACSA moniker when it was a subsidiary of Grupo TACA. Since May 2013, following Avianca's purchase of Grupo TACA, Avianca Costa Rica became one of seven nationally branded airlines (Avianca Ecuador, Avianca Honduras, etc.) operated by Avianca Holdings group of Latin American airlines. LACSA was established"
"Avianca Argentina Avianca Argentina is an airline headquartered at Buenos Aires-Aeroparque, Argentina. It was founded in the March 2016, after the acquisition by Synergy Group of the regional airline Macair Jet. It operates commercially as Avianca through a license agreement, however is independent of the Avianca Holdings group of Latin American airlines. Using the airline's two ATR 72 aircraft for charter flights over the course of 2017, scheduled services started in November 2017. Pending approval by the civil aviation authorities, it shall operate passenger and cargo flights within Argentina and internationally from its primary hub at Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo"
"program called ""Programa Amigo."" Avianca Brazil Avianca Brazil (), officially Oceanair Linhas Aéreas S/A, is a Brazilian airline based in São Paulo, Brazil. It operates passenger services from 25 destinations. Its main bases are Brasília International Airport and São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport. According to the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil (ANAC), between January and December 2017 Avianca Brazil had 12.9% of the domestic and 2.6% of the international market shares in terms of passengers per kilometer flown, making it the fourth largest domestic and international airline in Brazil. The airline was established in 1998 as an air taxi company"
"was used by Avianca Holdings in the purchase of MacAir Jet, now Avianca Argentina, aircraft company owned by Macri Group, for an amount of $10 million. Allowing Avianca to make headway in the low-cost carrier business in Argentina. The Argentine government accepted this offshores as a financial guarantee to assign air routes to Avianca which is now being investigated by the Argentine federal justice system. Shareholding composition of Avianca Holding S.A. as of September 30, 2016: Avianca Holdings Avianca Holdings (formerly AviancaTaca AirHoldings Inc.) is a Latin American airline holding company formed in February 2010 by the merger of two"
"Avianca Brazil Avianca Brazil (), officially Oceanair Linhas Aéreas S/A, is a Brazilian airline based in São Paulo, Brazil. It operates passenger services from 25 destinations. Its main bases are Brasília International Airport and São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport. According to the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil (ANAC), between January and December 2017 Avianca Brazil had 12.9% of the domestic and 2.6% of the international market shares in terms of passengers per kilometer flown, making it the fourth largest domestic and international airline in Brazil. The airline was established in 1998 as an air taxi company to operate services for"
"de Janeiro. OceanAir, 2010 renamed Avianca Brazil, was launched in 1998 and six years later he purchased the Colombian legacy airline Avianca from Julio Mario Santo Domingo. As a result of his major investments in Colombia's economic and social development, Efromovich was officially made an honorary Colombian citizen in 2005 by the Colombian government. He has control or shares in his own Synergy Group, based in Rio de Janeiro, which in 1998 was offering maintenance services for oil operations in Brazil. In late 2004, Efromovich's company agreed to buy a controlling stake in Avianca, which at the time was under"
"owns the majority of the airline with more than 81% acquired. Avianca made an investment of US$7.2 million to strengthen and modernize the company. Despite the purchase by Avianca, AeroGal continued using its separate identity until 2014, and will continue to operate in Ecuador. On June 18, 2014, the airline was renamed Avianca Ecuador. As of August 2017 the Avianca Ecuador fleet includes the following aircraft: Avianca Ecuador Avianca Ecuador, formerly known as AeroGal, is an airline based in Quito, Ecuador. It operates passenger and cargo flights within Ecuador, between the mainland and the Galápagos Islands, and between Ecuador and"
"destinations in America and Europe, which connect to over 750 destinations worldwide through codeshare agreements with partner airlines. Avianca carried 24,6 million passengers in 2013. The company's main competitors are LATAM Airlines Group, Gol Transportes Aéreos and Azul Brazilian Airlines. On 5 November 2017, the Paradise Papers, a set of confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investment, revealed that the company's Chairman Germán Efromovich is linked to an offshore conglomerate used for the aerocommercial holding business with ramifications in Bermuda, Panama and Cyprus. Efromovich used a Panamanian offshore that hid more than 20 firms located in tax havens. The conglomerate"
"the airport. None of the 122 passengers on board the aircraft sustained injuries, and stayed at a hotel until another aircraft could transport them to their destination, San José, Costa Rica. The cause of the incident was not determined. Avianca Costa Rica Avianca Costa Rica, formerly known as LACSA (""Spanish: Lineas Aéreas Costarricenses S.A.""), minority owned by the Synergy Group, is the national airline of Costa Rica and is based in San José. It operates international scheduled services to over 35 destinations in Central, North and South America. The airline previously used the TACA/LACSA moniker when it was a subsidiary"
"International Airport in San Miguel de Tucumán. Until then, its scheduled services operate from Buenos Aires-Aeroparque. Synergy Aerospace announced an order for the purchase of 12 firm ATR 72-600s, operated by Avian Líneas Aéreas under Avianca Argentina. The first ATR72 was delivered on 13 January 2017. The airline began operations in 2017. As of January 2017 the Avianca Argentina fleet includes the following aircraft: Avianca Argentina Avianca Argentina is an airline headquartered at Buenos Aires-Aeroparque, Argentina. It was founded in the March 2016, after the acquisition by Synergy Group of the regional airline Macair Jet. It operates commercially as Avianca"
"following aircraft (as of August 2017): Parent company Avianca has a firm order for 100 Airbus A320neo family aircraft, and some of the aircraft will likely go to Avianca El Salvador. TACA Airlines operated the following aircraft: LifeMiles is the frequent-flyer program of Avianca and TACA Airlines as of 2009, because of the merger with Avianca. It replaced the old ""Distancia"" program. Avianca El Salvador Avianca El Salvador, formerly Transportes Aereos del Continente Americano, simply known as TACA Airlines, is an airline owned by the Synergy Group based in El Salvador. As TACA, it was the flag carrier of El"
"the protection of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Synergy Group subsequently acquired the remainder of Avianca in 2005. In February 2010, Avianca and TACA merged to AviancaTaca. TACA Group encompasses TACA Airlines and their participation in Lacsa, TACA Peru, Aviateca, Sansa Airlines, La Costeña, Aeroperlas and Isleña Airlines. Avianca includes: Avianca, Tampa Cargo and the recently incorporated AeroGal from Ecuador. The combined Avianca and Taca is now the second-largest airline in the region in terms of revenue, behind Chilean-Brazilian's LATAM Airlines Group. All these airlines are controlled by Synergy Aerospace Corp. based in Bogota, a subsidiarity of Synergy Group. Efromovich also"
"new fleet of Embraer 190 airplanes registered in Costa Rica and operated under the LACSA code. In 2009, Aerovías del Continente Americano S.A. (Avianca) and TACA announced their merger plans to be completed in 2010. By 2013, the airlines began operating as a single commercial brand using the Avianca name. According to the May 31, 1973 LACSA system timetable, the airline was serving the following international destinations: This same timetable states that all international flights were being operated with British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven twin jets at this time with the exception of the San José-San Andres Island route which"
"and those of Avianca Brazil are the latter's Brazilian registrations and a small Brazilian flag under their cockpit windows. On 10 November 2010, Star Alliance decided to accept Avianca Holdings to join the network as a member airline. However, Avianca Brazil was rejected at the time due to its outdated IT platforms and an objection by TAM Airlines, which since left Star Alliance to join Oneworld after merging with LAN. Upon TAM's exit, Avianca Brazil officially joined Star Alliance on July 22, 2015 as an affiliate. On 11 October 2016, the airline took delivery of its first Airbus A320neo of"
"Avianca El Salvador Avianca El Salvador, formerly Transportes Aereos del Continente Americano, simply known as TACA Airlines, is an airline owned by the Synergy Group based in El Salvador. As TACA, it was the flag carrier of El Salvador. As Avianca El Salvador, it is one of the seven nationally branded airlines (Avianca Ecuador, Avianca Honduras, etc.) in the Avianca Holdings group of Latin American airlines. This Airline has been in operation for 75 years. TACA owned and operated five other airlines in Central America, and its name was originally an acronym meaning ""Transportes Aéreos Centroamericanos"" (Central American Air Transport),"
"Avianca Honduras Avianca Honduras, is an airline based in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. It offers mostly domestic scheduled and chartered passenger flights out of its hub at Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport. It is one of the seven nationally branded airlines (Avianca Ecuador, Avianca Peru, etc.) in the Avianca Holdings group of Latin American airlines. Avianca Honduras was founded as Isleña Airlines in 1981 by Arturo Alvarado Wood. Revenue flights between La Ceiba and Roatán were commenced on 31 March. In 1998, Grupo TACA acquired a 20 percent stake in the company. In 2014 Isleña Airlines being part of Grupo"
"Gobernación de Cundinamarca, located in the Ciudad Salitre area of Bogotá. The building is located next to the Gran Estación. Its previous head office was at Avenida El Dorado No. 93-30. Avianca's hubs are in Bogotá at El Dorado International Airport, in San Salvador at Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport and in Lima at Jorge Chávez International Airport. Its focus cities are Medellín, Cali, Cartagena, Barranquilla, San José and Quito as well as Miami, where Avianca is the largest foreign carrier by number of passengers. The airline covers 114 destinations in 27 countries. Avianca launched their LifeMiles frequent-flyer program"
"a holding company, Avianca Holdings. The Synergy Group owns 66.66% of the newly created subsidiary company. Kingsland Holding (Texas) owns the other 33.33% of Avianca-TACA. Synergy Aerospace Corp., a sub-division of Synergy Group, is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia. It is the major shareholder of Avianca Holdings. The company controls eight airlines in four countries: Avianca and Tampa Cargo in Colombia, Avianca Brazil, VarigLog and Synerjet in Brazil, VIP and Aerogal in Ecuador and Grupo TACA in El Salvador. In November 2012, Synergy Aerospace Corp. established Synergy Aerospace Europe. Synergy Aerospace established a joint venture in March 2011 with Israel Aerospace"
"was Avianca Flight 011, which crashed in 1983. In the field of security, Avianca has different international certifications that guarantee the quality of its procedures and safety standards in their services of maintenance, training and support to aircraft. In addition, on November 27, 2008 it received certification ISAGO (IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations), being the first airline in the world to receive it. ISAGO certifies the compliance with the standards and practices for the control and management of the processes of care and boarding of passengers, cargo, luggage, as well as assistance and handling of aircraft. Avianca Avianca S.A."
"consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2018): The airline fleet previously included the following aircraft (as of April 2013): La Costeña (airline) Aerotaxis La Costeña S.A., is an airline based in Managua, Nicaragua. It operates passenger services from Managua to 10 domestic destinations as part of the Grupo TACA regional system. Its main base is Augusto C. Sandino International Airport, Managua. The airline started operations in November 1999. It had 140 employees in September 2011. Avianca Nicaragua operates scheduled services to the following domestic destinations: Bluefields, Bonanza, Corn Islands, Managua, Ometepe, San Juan de Nicaragua, Emerald Coast, Puerto"
"of $10 million. Allowing Avianca to make headway in the low-cost carrier business in Argentina. The Argentine government accepted this offshores as a financial guarantee to assign air routes to Avianca. The whole operation of assigning air routes is investigated by the Argentine federal justice system in a case called ""Avianca"" in which the President of Argentina Mauricio Macri and other officials were imputed. A Kremlin-owned firm, VTB Bank, put $191 million into DST Global, an investment firm part of Mail.ru Group and founded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, which used it to buy a large share of Twitter in"
"flights, down from the third largest at the end of 2007. On July 6, 2009, Aviacsa suspended operations due to economic crisis. Aviacsa ceased operations on May 4, 2011. The airline was established on May 5, 1990, as a flag carrier airline by the government of the Mexican state of Chiapas in order to fulfill the transportation needs of the fast-growing communities located in that state. They operated their first flight on September 20, 1990, using an 89-seat British Aerospace 146 (BAe 146) regional aircraft between Mexico City and the cities of Tapachula, and Tuxtla Gutiérrez, both located in the"
"1998, the second runway was officially opened. On 10 December 1998, Avianca officially opened its hub in Bogotá, offering an estimated 6,000 possible connections per week, including greater numbers of frequencies, schedules and destinations served. Connections between domestic and international destinations are currently operated directly and through codesharing agreements with airlines such as Delta Air Lines, Iberia, Air Canada, Lufthansa and Air France. Operations out of the Bogotá hub allow travelers to easily connect between domestic destinations (such as Pereira San Andrés), from a domestic destination to an international destination (Such as Cali to Los Angeles), from an international destination"
"the region's largest airlines, with 129 aircraft and flights to more than 100 destinations. In November 2009, the airline's Chief Executive Fabio Villegas announced that the airline was looking to replace its Fokker 50 and Fokker 100 aircraft with newer aircraft of 100 seats or less. On 1 January 2011, the airline decided to retire the Fokker 100 aircraft in 2011 and replace them with 10 Airbus A318 leased from GECAS. The aircraft were delivered from February to April 2011. On 10 November 2010, Star Alliance announced that Avianca (and its merger counterpart, TACA) were full members in 2012. Due"
"Avianca Flight 011 Avianca Flight 011, registration HK-2910X, was a Boeing 747-200B on an international scheduled passenger flight from Frankfurt via Paris, Madrid, and Caracas to Bogotá that crashed on 27 November 1983. It took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris at 22:25 on 26 November 1983 for Madrid Barajas Airport; take-off was delayed to wait for additional passengers from a Lufthansa flight due to a cancellation of the segment Paris-Frankfurt by Avianca for operational reasons. The jet had been cleared to land at Barajas Airport, the first of two scheduled en route stops originating at Paris, with"
"new exclusive terminal to be called the Puente Aéreo (Air Bridge), which was eventually inaugurated by President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala. Avianca's original purpose for the terminal was for flights serving Cali, Medellín, Miami and New York. During the first years of operation and until 2005 Avianca gradually moved all of its domestic operations to the Puente Aéreo and shifted the Miami and New York operations to the main terminal. This allowed them to streamline their operations by using space previously assigned to customs and immigration for passenger gates and lounges. The culmination of this process came in 2006 when"
"Aviateca Aviateca is now known as Avianca Guatemala and is headquartered in Guatemala City. The airline is now a subsidiary of Avianca. The airline was established on 1929 as Aerovías de Guatemala, and was founded by Alfredo Denby Chattfield. In 1945, the airline was nationalized during the government of Juan José Arevalo and stablished as Empresa Guatemalteca de Aviación S. A., which was shortened to Aviateca. One of the original founders was Alfredo Castaneda Duarte who also served as a pilot. Aviateca started operations in March 1946 and early aircraft operated by the carrier included the Douglas DC-3. In 1961,"
"in 2011, replacing AviancaPlus. The levels include Silver, Gold and Diamond, replacing the former Basic, Gold, Platinum, and Platinum Executive levels. This program covers all Avianca Holdings airlines. Avianca has codeshare agreements with the following airlines: The frequent flyer program of Avianca and its subsidiaries is LifeMiles.This program is to reward customer loyalty. The membership is free and you can register online. LifeMiles members earn miles every time they fly with Star Alliance members, Avianca subsidiaries or use service in some hotels, retails, car rental and credit card partners. LifeMiles has three Elite Tiers: As of September 2018, the Avianca"
"to Avianca's entry into Star Alliance, it ended its codeshare agreement with Delta Air Lines and began a new codeshare agreement with United Airlines. TACA had been codesharing with United Airlines since 2006. On 21 June 2012, Avianca and TACA were both officially admitted into Star Alliance. TACA and all other AviancaTaca airlines changed their brand to Avianca on 28 May 2013. On 21 March 2013, at the annual general meeting, the shareholders approved the change of corporate name from AviancaTaca Holdings S.A. to Avianca Holdings S.A. Avianca's headquarters are on Avenida El Dorado and between Avenida la Esmeralda and"
"companies have several daily flights to the most popular destinations, and daily or less frequent flights to other destinations. Since 2003, the Ministry of The Interior and Transport has overseen numerous construction works throughout the country's airports, ranging from the building of new terminals to extending the lengths of runways and improving radar systems. The national flag carrier is ""Aerolíneas Argentinas"", which was re-nationalised from Iberia in 2008 with the government citing mis-management under the Spanish firm. Under government ownership, the airline has renewed much of its fleet and tripled its size, with passenger numbers increasing significantly. Along with other"
"Avianca Perú Avianca Perú is an airline based in Lima, Peru. It operates domestic services and international services. Its main base is Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM), Lima. The airline operates out of 18 airports. It is part of the Synergy Group and operates its flights with TACA's codes. Through Synergy Group, it is one of the seven nationally branded airlines (Avianca Ecuador, Avianca Honduras, etc.) in the Avianca Holdings group of Latin American airlines. The airline was established in 1999 and started operations in July 1999. It was founded by Daniel Ratti and Ernesto Mahle as TransAm, but changed"
"its name to TACA Peru when TACA took a minority holding, and renamed as Avianca Peru after Avianca-TACA fusion. It is owned by Daniel Ratti (51%) and the Synergy Group (49%). The Avianca Perú fleet consists of the following aircraft as of February 2017: Avianca Perú Avianca Perú is an airline based in Lima, Peru. It operates domestic services and international services. Its main base is Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM), Lima. The airline operates out of 18 airports. It is part of the Synergy Group and operates its flights with TACA's codes. Through Synergy Group, it is one of"