Aero Costa Rica

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Aero Costa Rica was an airline based in Costa Rica. It has ceased operations.

[edit] Code Data

ICAO Code: AEK
Callsign: Acorisa
IATA Code: ML
IATA Number: 211

[edit] Fleet and History

Aero Costa Rica ACORI, S.A. started service on May 11,1992 with two Boeing 727-200 Ex-Pan Am (N353PA and N354PA) in route San José-Miami as its only destination network. In July 1992 flight ML 211 made and emergency landing in Grand Cayman when flight engineer forgot to open and auxiliar fuel valve after taking off from Miami. Later that year route San José-San Pedro Sula-Orlando was inaugurated but company decided to drop it off four months later. In 1993 fleet was changed from 2 Boeing 727-200 to 2 Boeing 737-200 (N170PL and N171PL); with this flight equipment routes from San José to Atlanta (ATL) and San Andrés Islas (ADZ) were added. Due to serious financial inconveniences and bad administration, both 737 were delivered back at the end of 1994. In 1995 the airline purchased its only and own Boeing 727-100 Ex-American Airlines (N1974)named "Por Fin". There is no certain of what happened with this aircraft that today remais parked in Miami; the company wet-leased aircraft and crews from Falcon Air of Miami from October 1996 until July 1997 when company finally collapsed because owner Calixto Chaves Zamora intended to sell the airline to a Pakistani company based in Miami and represented by a Cuban-American guy named Osiris Rosario. The check Chaves received had no funds and the company could not remain in service no longer.