Aerosur

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Aerosur (Compania Boliviana de Transporte Aereo Privado Aerosur, S.A.) is an airline company based in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. It is a private airline operating domestic scheduled services and some international flights. Its main base is Viru Viru International Airport, Santa Cruz.

Contents 1 Code data 2 History 3 Services 4 Fleet 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Code data

• IATA Code: 5L
• ICAO Code: ASU
• Callsign: Asur ^[1]

[edit] History

The airline was established in April 1992 and it started operations on August 24 of that same year as a regional air carrier. It was created after deregulation of local air transport in Bolivia by a merger of existing charter companies. It was the first Bolivian airliner to introduce business class and first class on domestic flights, which in turn spurred on economic growth for the fairly new company. Steadily growing, Aerosur has since become the second largest airline in Bolivia after Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, now operating a large domestic network as well as offering international flights to Madrid (Spain), São Paulo (Brazil), Miami (USA), and Buenos Aires (Argentina). In 2004 Aerosur had also begun scheduling nostalgic flights on a Douglas Super DC-3 to popular tourist destinations Salar De Uyuni and Rurrenabaque.

[edit] Services

As of December 2006 Aerosur offers the following services:

• Domestic scheduled destinations to Cobija, Cochabamba, La Paz, Puerto Suárez, Rurrenabaque, Santa Cruz (El Trompillo and Viru Viru), Sucre, Tarija and Trinidad.

• International scheduled destinations to Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lima and Asunción. It also serves Miami and Madrid through wet leases with Ryan International Airlines and Air Plus Comet respectively.
• Flights to Caracas (Venezuela), Havana (Cuba), Mexico, Washington D.C. and Santiago (Chile) are intended for 2007.

[edit] Fleet

The Aerosur fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) ^[2] :

• 2 Boeing 727-100
• 6 Boeing 727-200
• 2 Boeing 737-200
• 1 Boeing 757-200
• 1 Boeing 747-200
• 3 Let L-410 UVP

[edit] External links

• Aerosur

[edit] References

1. ^ Airline Codes
2. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006