AEROLATIN (AEROLINEAS LATINAS, S. A.): Centro Comercial Ciudad Tamanaco, 1a Etapa 3er Piso, #315, Caracas, Venezuela; Phone 58 (2) 959-1884; Fax 58 (2) 993-6378; Code LT; Year Founded 1989. This all-cargo airline is established at Caracas on September 28, 1989; shareholders include Maria Engina Martinez Capriles (67%) and the French carrier Euralair International Airlines, S. A. (32%). Santiago Mesta is named president/CEO. A fleet is assembled comprising 1 Boeing 707-315F and 1 B-727-100F. Weekly flights are undertaken to four destinations in the U. S., two in Mexico, two in Brazil, three in Europe, and two in Canada. Panama, Nicaragua, Trinidad, and Cuba are also visited weekly.
Operations continue apace in 1990-1992, although flights to Miami are withdrawn. In 1993, chief shareholder Capriles is CEO/president with Mesta as finance officer. The fleet now includes 2 B-727-200s, 2 B-727-100Fs, and 1 Douglas DC-8-54F. From Caracas, weekly fights are made from Caracas to Trinidad, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico City, Europe, and Canada. More frequencies are offered from Caracas to Rio de Janeiro and Iguazu Falls while replacement services are provided for other carriers in Central and South America.
Employing the B-727-100 leased from new entrant Aricsa Jet Cargo, S. A., also of Caracas, service is resumed to Miami in 1994.
Although it is understood that flights continue without change during the remainder of the decade, exact information is, however, unavailable.
AEROLEASING DEUTSCHLAND, GmbH.: Flughafen Hamburg, Hamburg, D-26501, Germany; Year Founded 1965. Aeroleasing is originally set up at Hamburg in 1965 as an executive passenger and charter operation. Thirty-five years later, the company is a worldwide concern with bases on two continents. The carrier’s subsidiaries include Aeroleasing Ukraine at Kiev, Jet Leasing Belgium, NV at Brussels, and Aeroleasing Far East (Pty.), Ltd. at Singapore. The German operator also maintains bases at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, as well as Geneva, Switzerland.
The European fleet now includes 4 each Dassault Falcon 50s and Learjet 35A Century 3s, 2 each Falcon 20s and Falcon 10s, and 1 each Dassault 900B, Learjet 31, Learjet 36, Learjet 55 Longhorn, Yakovlev Yak-40, and Canadair Challenger 601.
AEROLEASING FAR EAST (PTY.), LTD.: Singapore Seletar Airport, Singapore, Year Founded 1989. This subsidiary of Aeroleasing Deutschland, GmbH. is set up at Singapore in 1989, originally as an FBO. Mr. Yip is managing director; he begins and continues an executive passenger service throughout Southeast Asia with a Learjet 35A chartered from the parent.
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