APSA - Líneas Aéreas Peruanas SA was the national airline of Peru from 1956 until 1971.
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APSA operated routes to Los Angeles, Miami, Mexico City, Acapulco, San Salvador, Managua, Tegucigalpa, Panama, Caracas, Barranquilla, Bogotá, Guayaquil, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Asunción, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. To operate those routes it used the Douglas DC-6 and later the Convair 990.
Towards the end of the 1960s, routes to London, Madrid and Paris were begun, using Douglas DC-8-52 in conjunction with Iberia Airlines of Spain (a major stockholder in APSA).
Because it was a money-losing operation, and as a pretext by Peruvian dictator Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado to get rid of the foreign-owned stock in the largest Peruvian carrier, the Peruvian government shut down operations in 1971.[1] In 1973 Velasco's government formed their own national carrier, Aeroperú, whose name made it an spiritual successor to APSA although it was, in the beginning, a state-owned company.
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