Local edition, with Spain and Portugal flights. Viasa, the former state-owned Venezuelan airline, is quite probably one of the most beloved defunct carriers of the region. It was sold to the Iberia group in 1991. The privatisation has been heavily criticized then and continues to be so. Anyhow, it was quite probably not the smartest of possible decisions, since Iberia itself was not in a very good shape. Evwentually, Iberia was not able to heal the money-lossing airling airline (which suffered from severe mismanagement since many years before) and Viasa folded up in 1997. Conviasa is the new Venezuelan state carrier since 2004.
Uno de los problemas de la empresa es que tenía, en comparación con su tamaño, una red de destinos bastante grande, aunque cada uno volaba a cada uno de ellos con una frecuencia bastante limitada. Era, de hecho, la aerolínea latinoamericana con mayor número de destinos en Europa. Este es el mapa de rutas de que tenía Viasa en el momento de su cierre:
One of the problems Viasa had was that for an airline of its relatively small fleet size, they served a quite large network. Each destination, however, was underserved with low-frequency services. Viasa was the Latin American airline which had more destinations in the European continent. This is the route map Viasa had at its end:
(esta imagen está circulando por varios sitios de la red sobre Viasa. Aparentemente, fue creada por el usuario josevaldia en este foro. This image is circulating around the internet in several web pages about Viasa; it seems it was originally created by the user josevaldia in this forum)
La última librea que usó Viasa recordaba claramente a la de Iberia.
This was the last livery Viasa had on their planes, clearly resembling the Iberia scheme.
Enlaces (links)
- Info en la Wikipedia y en Venciclopedia
- Otro artículo sobre Viasa en el blog "cuando era chamo"
- Varios grupos de fans de Viasa en Facebook : (several fan groups at Facebook)
Viasa venezolana aviación
Viasa, la línea aérea de Venezuela
Líneas aéreas de Venezuela (sobre todas las aerolíneas venezolanas)
Aeropostaleros y Viaseros
- Un hilo sobre Viasa en skyscrappercity
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