Transbrasil

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Transbrasil
Logo (from 1999)
Transbrasil Boeing 767-200
IATA code : TR
ICAO code : TBA
Call sign : TRANSBRASIL
Founding: 1955 (as Sadia)
Operation stopped: 2001
Seat: Brasília , BrazilBrazilBrazil 
Turnstile :
Home airport : Sao Paulo-Congonhas Airport
Fleet size: 22nd
Aims: National and international
Transbrasil ceased operations in 2001. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Transbrasil , SA Linhas Aéreas ( TransBrasil on the outside ) was an international Brazilian airline that ceased operations in 2001.

history

A Boeing 727-100 of the Trans Brasil in 1977
A Boeing 737-300 of the Trans Brasil in 1996

Transbrasil was founded on January 5, 1955 as Sadia Transportes Aéreos by the Brazilian entrepreneur Omar Fontana to transport meat by air from Concórdia to São Paulo on behalf of the Sadia group . The start of flight operations took place in April 1955 with a Douglas DC-3 ( registration number : PP-ASJ). In addition to the freight transport, the company carried out scheduled passenger flights within the state of Santa Catarina from March 15, 1956 , which were shortly afterwards extended to São Paulo and the neighboring state of Paraná . In 1957 Sadia Transportes Aéreos entered into an alliance with the international airline Real Aérovias and carried out shuttle services for them. The cooperation ended in 1961 after Real Aérovias was taken over by the VARIG airline . In 1962, Sadia acquired the regional airline Transportes Aéreos Salvador (TAS) and was thus able to integrate the north-eastern part of the country into its route network. At that time, the company was flying to 53 destinations in Brazil with a fleet of fifteen Douglas DC-3s and five Curtiss C-46s . In the 1960s, Sadia gradually replaced its DC-3 and C-46 with Handley Page Herald turboprop aircraft , the first of which was delivered on December 6, 1963. The first jet aircraft of the type BAC 111-500 expanded the fleet from September 1970.

The company, which now operates nationwide, took on the name Transbrasil in June 1972 and relocated its headquarters from São Paulo to Brasília . At the same time, a new corporate design was introduced, with the individual aircraft wearing different basic colors. Transbrasil received its first two used Boeing 727-100s in October 1974 and unified the fleet with this type of aircraft by the end of the 1970s. After acquiring used Boeing 707 freighters , the company began operating international freight flights to Europe and the USA from 1982 onwards. The following year, the first Boeing 767-200s were delivered, which Transbrasil used on international charter flights to Orlando . On national routes, the Boeing 727s were gradually replaced by the Boeing 737-300 from 1986 and by the Boeing 737-400 from 1988 . After VARIG lost its monopoly on international scheduled flights in October 1989, Transbrasil opened scheduled connections to Orlando and Miami in January 1990 from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo . Washington, DC (from 1991) and New York City (from 1992) were included in the flight plan as additional US cities . In 1994 Transbrasil expanded its international route network and set up daily connections from Brasília, Curitiba and São Paulo to Buenos Aires . At the same time, the company started scheduled flights to Vienna . Amsterdam became the second European city to be served from 1995.

The increasing competition between the Brazilian airlines brought Transbrasil considerable losses from the end of the 1990s. The company went bankrupt on December 3, 2001 after passenger numbers plummeted as a result of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . The Shell Group refused to continue delivering kerosene because of the outstanding debts , so that the company had to cease flight operations on December 3, 2001.

The São Paulo civil court officially declared the company bankrupt in April 2003. The bankruptcy was upheld on October 2, 2009 by the Brazilian Superior Tribunal de Justica after the company filed a lawsuit against General Electric .

Subsidiaries

AeroBrasil Cargo

Aerobrasil was set up in the early 1980s as a division that operated Transbrasil's international cargo flights . For this purpose, Boeing 707s acquired second-hand from 1982 onwards , which were painted in Transbrasil colors and also bore the label Aerobrasil , were used. The corporate division was outsourced in 1991 as an independent subsidiary under the name AeroBrasil Cargo . After the sale of the remaining three Boeing 707s, the subsidiary was dissolved in 1996. Transbrasil then carried out its cargo flights in cooperation with Evergreen International Airlines .

InterBrasil Star

Interbrasil Star was founded at the beginning of 1994 as a regional airline to integrate smaller airports into the Transbrasil route network and to provide shuttle services. The company was based at São Paulo-Congonhas Airport and began flight operations with Embraer EMB 120 aircraft in 1995 .

fleet

A Handley Page Herald of the Transbrasil in 1973

Incidents

  • On August 4, 1963, a Douglas DC-3 ( registration : PP-SLL ) of Sadia Transportes Aéreos collided with a hill while approaching Videira . All ten occupants of the machine were killed in the accident.
  • On March 1, 1967, a Douglas C-47 (PP-ASS) of Sadia Transportes Aéreos had to make an emergency landing near the city of Caravelas . The previously serviced aircraft was on a test flight. The machine was written off as a total loss.
A BAC 111-500 from Transbrasil , identical in construction to the machines that crashed in 1974 and 1977
  • On January 22, 1976, an Embraer EMB 110 (PT-TBD) of Transbrasil had an accident at the start in Chapecó . A pebble had perforated a tire. When the brakes were applied, the wheels locked, whereupon the machine slid into a ditch and caught fire. Seven of the nine occupants died in the accident (see also Transbrasil flight 107 ) .
  • On April 11, 1987, a Boeing 707-300C ( PT-TCO) had an accident while landing in Manaus . The cargo plane was written off as a total loss.
  • On March 21, 1989, a Boeing 707-300C (PT-TCS) crashed into a residential area about two kilometers from the runway threshold of São Paulo-Congonhas Airport. The three-man crew of the cargo plane and 22 people on the ground were killed.
  • On 26 November 1992, a crashed Boeing 707 (PT-TCP) the Aero Brasil Cargo on the Manaus airport after the right main landing gear of the aircraft in the approach to the approach lights had collided. The machine was written off as a total loss.

See also

Web links

Commons : Transbrasil  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Airline Markings and Commercial Aircraft, D. Donald, 1985
  2. a b History of Transbrasil, former website of the company http://www.transbrasil.com.br/i/histor1.htm ( Memento from August 5, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  3. jp airline-fleets international, Edition 80
  4. jp airline-fleets international, Edition 83
  5. Flight International, January 14, 2002 [1]
  6. ILO: Impact of the September 11 events on the Air Transport sector [2]
  7. Consultor Juridico, STJ mantém decretação de falência da Transbrasil [3]
  8. http://www.valoronline.com.br/Busca.aspx?termo=Transbrasil&searchTerm=transbrasil (link not available)
  9. http://www.diariodoturismo.com.br/texto.asp?codid=14717 (link not available)
  10. jp airline-fleets international, Edition 97/98
  11. http://www.allbusiness.com/transportation/air-transportation-airlines-air-freight/7249323-1.html (link not available)
  12. jp airline-fleets, Edition 95/96
  13. Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of August 4, 1963 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  14. Aircraft accident data and report of the incident of March 1, 1967 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  15. Accident report HP Herald PP-SDJ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 3, 2020.
  16. Aircraft accident data and report of the incident of February 1, 1974 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  17. ^ Accident report EMB-110, PT-TBD in the Aviation Safety Network
  18. Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of January 4, 1977 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  19. ^ Accident report B-727-100C PT-TYS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 7, 2019.
  20. Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of April 11, 1987 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  21. Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of March 21, 1989 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  22. Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of November 26, 1992 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)