Avensa
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Avensa (Aerovias Venezolanas Sociedad Anonima) is a Venezuelan airline, which is in the process of financial restructuring, after it went bankrupt due to poor management in 2002. It operates from hubs at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Caracas and Arturo Michelena International Airport in Valencia.
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History
Avensa overtook many of the international routes formerly flown by Viasa. Avensa's livery reflects their connection to Pan Am, airline that helped set up Avensa in the 1940s; their livery is similar to that of Pan Am during the late 1980s and nowadays. Avensa operated a smaller low-cost airline called Servivensa, which operated mainly Boeing 727 aircraft.
Services
Avensa is currently serving only a domestic network of three cities: Caracas, Mérida and Canaima, as they attempt to re-structure.
Fleet
Avensa previously had a fleet with aircraft such as the Douglas DC-9, DC-10, the Boeing 727, 737-200, 757, and the Airbus A300. A few aircraft, maily the Boeing 727-200, of the former fleet are now owned by Santa Barbara Airlines, which operates most of the former international routes, as well as some new ones.
Their current functional fleet consists of (at November 13, 2005):
- 1 Embraer 120
- 1 Douglas DC-3
- 1 Douglas DC-9-30
- 1 Douglas DC-9-50
- 1 Boeing 727-100
- 1 Boeing 727-200
- 1 Boeing 737-200
- 1 Beech King 90
External links
- [Avensa]
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