Sahsa
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SAHSA, Servicio Aereo de Honduras SA, was the national airline of Honduras. It merged into TAN in the 1980s. It was based at Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa and flew from Honduras and Belize City to various destinations throughout central and north America. Routes included Houston, New Orleans, and Miami to Belize, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador, and Roatan.
On October 21, 1989 an accident with a rented Boeing 727 a few kilometers from Tegucigalpa caused many deaths and the company never recovered financially.
After the merger of SAHSA and TAN (Transportes Aéreos Nacionales) the company was known as TAN-SAHSA, but many jokes called it: SA-TAN.
Because the owner of TAN-SAHSA was a long term dictator in Honduras (Oswaldo López Arellano), no U.S. airlines could fly to or from Honduras. Once the dictator was thrown out of power, some U.S. based arlines started flying to and from Honduras, but all these companies (Eastern Airlines, PanAm, Air Florida) went into bankruptcy before the end of TAN-SAHSA.
Today many U.S. Airlines fly daily to and from Honduras (Continental Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines).
There are still many suits from former employees pending of judicial resolution of the courts.
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