Sansa Regional Airline

Sansa Regional Airline
IATA code :	RZ
ICAO code :	LRS
Call sign :	SANSA
Founding:	1980 (as Sansa Airlines)
Seat:	San Jose , Costa Rica
Turnstile :	San Jose
Home airport :	San Jose
Frequent Flyer Program :	LifeMiles
Fleet size:	12
Aims:	national
Website:	flysansa.com

Sansa Airlines (Servicios Aereos Nacionales SA) is an airline in Costa Rica with headquarters in San Jose and based on the Juan Santamaría International Airport . It was a subsidiary of Avianca Costa Rica (formerly Lacsa ), which is now back in Costa Rican hands.

history

Sansa Airlines was founded in 1980 and started flight operations in the same year. It was owned by Avianca Costa Rica , the then Lacsa from Costa Rica. On November 26, 2008, the airline was renamed Sansa Regional Airline.

Due to the restructuring measures of Avianca Holdings , TACA Regional dissolved and Sansa now operates independently. An independent logo and a new color scheme were introduced.

Destinations

Old TACA Regional logo

Sansa Regional flies from San José within Costa Rica to Puerto Jiménez , Golfito , Palmar Sur, Bahía Drake, Manuel Antonio , Tambor, Tamarindo , Liberia , Arenal , Puerto Limón and Tortuguero .

fleet

Current fleet

As of March 2020, the Sansa Regional fleet consists of 12 aircraft:

Aircraft type	active	ordered	Remarks	Seats
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan	12			12

Former aircraft types

Previously, SANSA also used the following types of aircraft:

• CASA C-212 Aviocar
• Douglas DC-3

Incidents

• On January 15, 1990, a SANSA CASA C-212-200 ( aircraft registration TI-SAB ) was flown into a cloud-shrouded mountain after taking off from San José Airport 16 km away. All 23 occupants (3 crew members and 20 passengers) were killed in this CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ) during a visual flight (see also SANSA flight 32 ) .

See also

• List of airlines
• Avianca Holdings

Web links

Commons : SANSA Airlines  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sansa Regional website (English, Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tacaregional.com - New SANSA REGIONAL Unveiled ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2015 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. (English) accessed on November 26, 2008 
2. ↑ flysansa.com - Destinations (English) accessed on February 13, 2015
3. ↑ rzjets: SANSA (English), accessed on April 1, 2020.
4. ↑ avianca.com - Our Fleet (English) accessed on February 13, 2015
5. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1981–2007.
6. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Sutton, UK, 2008-2013.
7. ^ Accident report CASA 212 TI-SAB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 6, 2019.