Aerovías DAP

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Aerovias DAP
IATA -	ICAO DAP	Callsign DAP
Founded		1979
Hubs		Carlos Ibanez Del Campo International Airport
Fleet size		6
Destinations		5
Headquarters		Punta Arenas, Chile
Key people
Website: http://www.aeroviasdap.cl/

Aerovias DAP (Las Aerolineas de la Patagonia) is an airline based in Punta Arenas, Chile. It operates scheduled and charter services in the southern Patagonia area, and also operates flights on behalf of the state-owned oil company, ENAP. Its main base is Carlos Ibanez Del Campo International Airport, Punta Arenas^[1]. The airline also has a helicopter operation DAP Helicopteros.

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 See also
6 References

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1979 and is wholly owned by the Pivcevic family^[1]. Its name DAP is the acronym of its creator, Domingo Andrés Pivcevic, a Punta Arenas businessman. Its first operations were between Punta Arenas, Porvenir, Puerto Natales and Coyhaique, with the first plane being the Twin Otter. The first flight to Antarctica took place on February 12, 1989, and usually these take place on the Southern Hemisphere's summer season, employing the Twin Otter, King Air 100 and (since 2003) the DHC-7 leased from Voyageur Airways of Canada. Nowadays, DAP leased a BAe 146-200 from Tronos, thus replacing the DHC-7s on the Punta Arenas-Teniente Marsh airfield in Antarctica.

[edit] Destinations

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Aerovias DAP operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005): El Calafate, Porvenir, Puerto Williams, Punta Arenas and Ushuaia.