Ladeco
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| IATA code : | UC |
| ICAO code : | LCO |
| Call sign : | LADECO |
| Founding: | 1958 |
| Operation stopped: | 2001 |
| Seat: | Santiago de Chile |
| Home airport : | Santiago de Chile airport |
| IATA prefix code : | 145 |
| Number of employees: | 1800 (February 2001) |
| Fleet size: | 9 (February 2001) |
| Aims: | national |
| Ladeco ceased operations in 2001. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Ladeco was a Chilean airline founded in November 1958 and merged with Fast Air in 1995 . After the merger, the company continued its flight operations with its own Air Operator Certificate and using the brand name Ladeco. In 2001 the company was renamed LAN Express .
history
Ladeco was founded in November 1958, where the name stood for " L ínea A érea De l Co bre", ie copper airline . A focus was then also the Aeropuerto El Loa near Calama , the region with the largest copper mine in the world. At the beginning, the company mainly flew in domestic traffic, but later also served international routes to the Caribbean and in Central and North America to Montreal . In the 1980s the company was the largest in Chile and carried two thirds of its passengers. The neighboring countries Peru and Bolivia were not on the route network, whereas Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina were served. After the privatization of LAN Chile, the latter took over the predominance of air traffic. In the early 1990s, Ladeco was sold to Iberia , which in turn approved the sale to LAN Chile. After the merger with LAN Chile, the company again mainly operated domestic routes and received a sister company Ladeco Cargo , the former Fast Air . In 2001 the company was renamed LAN Express .
fleet
When Lan Chile took over the fleet in 1995, the fleet consisted of Boeing 737-200 , Boeing 727 and Boeing 757 aircraft .
A total of 4 BAC 1-11 , 2 Boeing 757 , 20 Boeing 737-200 , 7 Boeing 727 , 4 Boeing 707 , 6 Douglas DC-6 , 2 Douglas DC-8 , 1 Airbus A300 , 1 Airbus A320 , 2 Boeing 737-300s and 2 Fokker 27-500s used, plus some Douglas DC-3s in the 1960s. Three Boeing 707s were used as freighters.
In the year the company was renamed LAN Express, the fleet consisted of nine Boeing 737-200s.
Incidents
On April 8, 1968, a Douglas C-49K ( aircraft registration number CC-CBM ) crashed while heading for the Balmaceda airfield about 45 kilometers northwest of it, killing 36 people.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Salvatore Bizzarro: Historical Dictionary of Chile . Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, ISBN 9781442276352 , page 499.
- ^ Iberia supports merger of Ladeco and Lan Chile airlines. In: UPI. November 10, 1993, accessed February 8, 2017 .
- ^ LanChile Announces the Formation of LanCargo Chile as Part of the New LanCargo Group. In: AllBusiness. October 22, 2001, archived from the original on February 5, 2008 ; accessed on February 8, 2017 .
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, various years
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2001/02
- ^ Accident report CC-CBM in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on February 8, 2017 (English).