Compañía de Servicios de Transporte Aéreo Amaszonas S.A., usually shortened to Nella Bolivia, is an airline based in

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, headquartered in

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with its administrative center in

La Paz La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities ...

. It operates scheduled and chartered short-haul passenger flights throughout the northern and northeastern regions of the country as well as to neighboring

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and

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, with its network's Hub being located at

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History

The company was founded on 1 October 1998, but flight services were only commenced in 2000. Initially, Amaszonas operated chartered flights using a small fleet of

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airliners of the types

Cessna 208 Caravan The Cessna 208 Caravan is a utility aircraft produced by Cessna. The project was commenced on November 20, 1981, and the prototype first flew on December 9, 1982. The production model was certified by the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA ...

and

Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San ...

. In 2012, following the demise of AeroSur, five

Bombardier CRJ200 The Bombardier CRJ100 and CRJ200 (previously Canadair CRJ100 and CRJ200) is a regional jet designed and manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace between 1991 and 2006, the first of the Bombardier CRJ family. The ''Canadair Regional Jet'' (CRJ) ...

were acquired from Avmax Aircraft Leasing Inc. in order to launch scheduled passenger services. The first one of these 50-seat jet aircraft was put in service in late August on the

route. In late 2014 Amaszonas announced it would lease 9 CRJ200 aircraft to expand its regional network and intended to fly to up to 40 destinations by 2017.

Purchase of BQB Líneas Aéreas

In 2015 the Bolivian airline purchased the Uruguayan BQB Líneas Aéreas 5 days after the company shut down its operations due to a crisis that began in 2014. From 4 May, the airline takes over the routes operated by BQB before the closure of operations, which are

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and

Silvio Pettirossi International Airport Silvio Pettirossi International Airport is an international airport in Luque, Paraguay, which serves Paraguay's capital city, Asunción, and indirectly serves the nearby city of Clorinda, Formosa in Argentina. The airport is named after Paraguay ...

NELLA Airlines Inc.

In August 2021 NELLA Airlines Inc., a company registered in the U.S. but based in Brazil and owned by a Brazilian investment group led by Mauricio Souza, who is the current Chief Executive, has acquired 100% control over the Bolivian airline Amaszonas. NELLA Airlines is a proposed regional airline to be based in Brazil that will focus on connecting remote Brazilian cities. NELLA Airlines announced a strategic partnership with Boeing on 29-Jul-2021 and it was expecting delivery of a

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in August 2021. However, such aircraft has not been delivered as of January 2022. Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport is the main international airport in Brazil's capital, Brasília and is planned to be the primary hub of NELLA Linhas Aereas.

Former subsidiaries

* Amaszonas Paraguay * Amaszonas Uruguay

Destinations

As of December 2021, Amaszonas offers scheduled flights to the following destinations:

Fleet

Current fleet

The Amaszonas fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of January 2020):

Former fleet

The airline previously operated: *2

Fairchild Metroliner The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San ...

*1 further Bombardier CRJ200LR *1 Bombardier CRJ100LR

Interline agreements

As of April 2014, Amaszonas had interline agreements with the following airlines: *

Air Europa Air Europa Líneas Aéreas, S.A.U., branded as Air Europa, is the third-largest Spanish airline after Iberia and Vueling. The airline is headquartered in Llucmajor, Mallorca, Spain; it has its main hub at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport ...

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As of January 2022, only

maintains an E-Ticket Interlineal agreement which allows the airlines to use the KIU System (

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) to generate reservations in the domestic destination served by Amaszonas.

Incidents

*On 10 July 2001 at 16:47 local time, the two pilots of an Amaszonas

( registered CP-2395) carrying eleven passengers had to execute an emergency landing on a hill near

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, six minutes into a flight from

Rurrenabaque Rurrenabaque is a small town in the north of Bolivia on the Beni River. It is the capital of Rurrenabaque Municipality. In recent years it has become popular with international tourism as it is an easy gateway for visits to Madidi National Park ( ...

, due to an engine problem. When hitting the ground, the aircraft turned over and was destroyed, but all persons on board survived. *On 25 January 2005 at around 10:00 local time, another Amaszonas Caravan (registered CP-2412) crash-landed, this time near Colquiri. The aircraft with two pilots and ten passengers on board had been on a chartered flight from La Paz to

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, when it encountered

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conditions, thus being unable to maintain height. There were no fatalities, but as a consequence, Amaszonas was stripped of the allowance to operate Caravans on passenger flights. *On 27 February 2011 at 15:10 local time, an Amaszonas Fairchild Metro 23 (registered CP-2473) was substantially damaged when the left landing gear collapsed upon landing at

. The aircraft carrying six passengers and two crew members had been on a scheduled flight from San Borja to

when problems with the undercarriage occurred, leading the pilots to divert to

. All persons on board survived the ensuing crash landing. * On November 9, 2017, an Amaszonas Uruguay

Canadair CRJ-200 The Bombardier CRJ100 and CRJ200 (previously Canadair CRJ100 and CRJ200) is a regional jet designed and manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace between 1991 and 2006, the first of the Bombardier CRJ family. The ''Canadair Regional Jet'' (CRJ) pro ...

was operating flight 749 from Asuncion, Paraguay to Montevideo, Uruguay and suffered a tyre explosion at the gate damaging another aircraft and seriously injuring a ground worker. The worker was taken to a military hospital where he had both legs amputated. The airline postponed all operations of November 10 and reestablished services on November 11.

Notes

References

External links

Official website

Official website
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