LaMia Bolivia
| LaMia | |
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| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | LMI |
| Call sign : | LAMIA |
| Founding: | 2009 |
| Operation stopped: | 2016 |
| Seat: |
Santa Cruz de la Sierra , Bolivia
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| Company form: | Compañía Anónima |
| Management: | Gustavo Vargas Gamboa |
| Fleet size: | 2 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.lamiacorp.com |
| LaMia ceased operations in 2016. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
LaMia , short for Línea Aérea Mérida Internacional de Aviación, Compañía Anónima , was a Bolivian charter airline based in Santa Cruz de la Sierra . The company, which was founded in Mérida , Venezuela, in 2009 only started flight operations after an operating license was issued in November 2015 for unscheduled flights by the Autoridad Aeronáutica Civil de Bolivia in Bolivia. At that time, the company had three Avro RJ85 aircraft . In April 2016 she was also the holder of a certificate from the Autoridad Aeronáutica Civil de Bolivia to carry out national and international passenger and cargo flights. The approval of the Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC) only included the permit to operate domestic charter flights at that time.
With regard to the airline's business model, the then managing director Pacheco stated in April 2016 that, for example, companies from the oil and gas industry and mining, as well as tour operators and soccer teams, were advised as potential customers. At the time, there were no concrete plans to start regular service. In the course of the investigation into the plane crash on November 28, 2016 , in which the airline was involved, the Attorney General of Bolivia Ramiro José Guerrero stated that in the past, among others, 25 club teams from professional football and the national teams of Argentina, Venezuela and Paraguay carried out the airline had been promoted. The charter flights were offered for a price between 80,000 and 100,000 US dollars and thus well below the market price of 150,000 to 200,000 US dollars.
The company became known in November 2016 for the LaMia flight 2933 , in which their then only airworthy machine, an Avro RJ85, crashed due to lack of fuel and almost the entire team of the Brazilian first division soccer club Chapecoense was killed. On December 1, 2016, the airline's Air Operator Certificate was withdrawn by the Bolivian Aviation Authority with immediate effect, which meant that it had to cease operations immediately. Since then, LaMia has owned two unfit to fly Avro RJ85s with an average age of 17.1 years at the time, but they were confiscated by the public prosecutor's office after the accident. Less than a week after the crash, the airline's executive director, Gustavo Vargas Gambóa, was arrested and arrested in Palmasola prison . According to the Bolivian public prosecutor's office, he was investigated for manslaughter, among other things . According to press reports, the investigation should also be extended to the co-owner Marco Antonio Rocha Venegas.
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- ↑ Así es LAMIA, la compañía aérea en la que viajaba el club Chapecoense (Spanish) on lainformacion.com from November 29, 2016, accessed on December 9, 2016
- ↑ a b Línea Lamia vuela en Bolivia y dos foráneas alistan incursión ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) from eldeber.com.bo from April 17, 2016, accessed on December 9, 2016
- ↑ Tres Selecciones y 25 equipos suramericanos usaron vuelos de LaMia: Fiscalía de Bolivia (Spanish) on elheraldo.co from December 9, 2016, accessed on December 9, 2016
- ↑ Crash: LAMIA Bolivia RJ85 near Medellin on Nov 28th 2016, electrical problems, no fuel, impact with terrain. In: avherald.com. Retrieved December 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Ch-aviation : Airline Information (English), accessed on December 1, 2016
- ↑ Six questions about the unlucky flight from Lamia , accessed on December 4, 2016
- ↑ Fiscalía secuestra los dos aviones de LaMia en Cochabamba (Spanish) on lostiempos.com from December 7, 2016, accessed on December 9, 2016
- ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/panorama/aus-aller-welt/absturz-in-kolumbien-chef-von-ungluecks-airline-lamia-festhaben/14944110.html
- ↑ Liberan a dos funcionarios de LaMia; Fiscalía pedirá la detención de su gerente (Spanish) on la-razon.com of December 7, 2016, accessed on December 9, 2016
- ↑ Prisión preventiva para el gerente de la aerolínea boliviana LaMia (Spanish) on arecoa.com from December 9, 2016, accessed on December 9, 2016
