Aerosur (Compania Boliviana de Transporte Aereo Privado) is an airline based in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. It is a private airline operating domestic scheduled services and some international flights. Its main base is Viru Viru International Airport, Santa Cruz. A Boeing 747-400 belonging to Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... This article is about the Bolivian city. ... Viru Viru International Airport (IATA: VVI) is an aviation facility located in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. ...

Code data

• IATA Code: 5L
• ICAO Code: RSU

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History

The airline was established in April 1992 and started operations on 24 August 1992 as a regional air carrier. It was created after deregulation of domestic air transport in Bolivia by a merger of existing charter companies. It became the first Bolivian airline to introduce first and business class on domestic flights. Steadily growing, Aerosur has become the second largest airline in Bolivia after Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, operating a large national network as well as (since 1998) international routes to São Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 2004 Aerosur also operates scheduled nostalgic flights on a Douglas Super DC-3 to the tourist destinations Salar De Uyuni and Rurrenabaque. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... A Boeing 747-400 belonging to Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... LAB Boeing 727-200 (CP-1366) at Cochabamba Airport Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (LAB Airlines) is the national and international passenger airline of Bolivia, based in Cochabamba. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The title of this article contains the character ã. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Sao Paulo. ... Buenos Aires (English: Fair Winds; originally Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María de los Buenos Aires, City of the Holy Trinity and Port of Saint Mary of the Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, and one of... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Douglas DC-3 is a fixed-wing, propeller-driven aircraft which revolutionized air transport in the 1930s and 1940s, and is generally regarded as one of the most significant transport aircraft ever made (also see Boeing 707 and Boeing 747). ... Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat. ... Rurrenabaque is a town in Bolivia, on the Beni River. ...

Services

Aerosur operates the following services (at January 2005): 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Cobija, Cochabamba, La Paz, Puerto Suarez, Rurrenabaque, Santa Cruz (El Trompillo and Viru Viru), Sucre, Tarija and Trinidad.

• International scheduled destinations: Buenos Aires and São Paulo.

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Fleet

The Aerosur fleet consists of the following aircraft (at May 2006):

• 4 Boeing 727-200
• 1 Boeing 737-200
• 1 Douglas Super DC-3

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External links

• AeroSur