Santa Barbara Airlines
| Santa Barbara Airlines, CA | |
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| IATA code : | S3 |
| ICAO code : | BBR |
| Call sign : | SANTA BARBARA |
| Founding: | 1995 |
| Operation stopped: | 2018 |
| Seat: |
Caracas , Venezuela
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| Home airport : | Caracas airport |
| Management: | Francisco González ( President ) |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | Privilege |
| Fleet size: | 5 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.sbairlines.com |
| Santa Barbara Airlines, CA ceased operations in 2018. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Santa Barbara Airlines , ( SBA ), was a Venezuelan airline based in Caracas and based at Caracas Airport . The airline ceased operations in November 2017 due to a lack of aircraft. Your air operator certificate was suspended for 90 days by the Venezuelan regulatory authorities at the end of January 2018. In July 2018, the company ceased operations.
history
The airline was founded on November 1, 1995 and began flight operations on March 1, 1996. Santa Barbara Airlines cooperates with the regional airline Islas Airways from Tenerife . Since the end of 2007 there have been plans to merge Santa Barbara Airlines with Aserca Airlines . First a Boeing 757-200 was given a combined paint job, consisting of the SBA Airlines title and the Aserca Airlines logo.
Destinations
Santa Barbara Airlines serviced by the Caracas airport from Panama City and Tenerife and Miami . There were also charter flights . An earlier route from Caracas to Madrid has now been discontinued.
Former fleet
Fleet at the end of operations
In July 2018 the fleet still consisted of five aircraft:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats ( Business / Economy ) |
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| Boeing 757-200 | 2 | 178 (24/154) | ||
| Boeing 767-300ER | 3 | 1 inactive | 231 (18/213) | |
| total | 5 | - |
Incidents
- On February 21, 2008, an ATR 42-300 with the aircraft registration number YV1449 on the flight from Mérida to Caracas with 46 people on board hit a mountain and crashed. All inmates were killed in the crash a few minutes after the take-off, which occurred in the Coyado del Condor region . The extremely hectic flight crew had deliberately flown an unofficial abbreviation that deviated from the official departure procedure in order to save time (see also Santa Bárbara Airlines flight 518 ) .
See also
Web links
- Santa Barbara Airlines website (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Santa Barbara Airlines prepares for shutdown in July 2018 curacaochronicle.com. Accessed on August 23, 2018 (English)
- ↑ sbairlines.com - Destinos (Spanish) accessed on November 19, 2012
- ↑ [1] (English), accessed on August 23, 2017
- ↑ sbairlines.com - Flota (Spanish) accessed January 15, 2015
- ↑ accident report ATR 42 YV1449 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 9 December 2016th