TransAmerican Charter is established in the spring of 1993 to offer regional and international charter and inclusive-tour flights with a single Douglas DC-9-32. A contract is signed to provide exclusive charter service for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association.
A total of 3,000 passengers are flown by the end of the year. Equal losses of $259,000 operating and net are reported.
During the fall of 1994, three British Aerospace BAe 146-200s are leased and employed on services from New York and Chicago to Key West.
Traffic figures are not released. Revenues, however, plunge 47.8% to $1.32 million, but expenses drop further, by 54.1%, to $1.28 million. As a result, there are equal $40,000 operating and net profits.
Flights cease in 1995.
TRANSANDINA ECUATORIANA, S. A.: Ecuador (1948-1949). Early in 1948, Transandina is formed at Quito to offer scheduled and non-scheduled passenger and cargo services. After acquiring a pair of Curtiss C-46 Commandos, flights begin on March 15 linking the base city with Esmeraldas in the north and Manta, Guayaquil, and Cuenca further south.
Company income is seriously limited after one of the Commandos makes a forced landing on Cozumel Island, Mexico, on October 23. The second C-46, which constitutes the fleet while the first is under repair, is slightly damaged during a hard landing at Esmarales on January 25, 1949. The machine is quickly repaired and put back into service, but must be written off after crashing at Quito on May 13.
Unable to succeed without aircraft and against earnest competition from ATECA (Aero Transporte Ecuatoriana, S. A.), Transandina joins with its rival in early summer to form AREA (Aerovias Ecuatorians, S. A.).
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