Mas (legally ''Aerotransportes Mas de Carga, S.A. de C.V.'') is a

cargo airline Cargo airlines (or air freight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines mainly dedicated to the transport of cargo by air. Some cargo airlines are divisions or subsidiaries of larger passenger airlines. In 2018, airline cargo traf ...

based in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

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, specialized in the shipment of air freight. It operates scheduled cargo services in Mexico and to the

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Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

and

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. Its main base is

Mexico City International Airport Mexico City International Airport ( es, link=yes, Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, AICM); officially ''Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez'' (Benito Juárez International Airport) is the main international airport serving ...

, with secondary hubs at

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and

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History

The airline was established as Mas Air in 1992 and started operations in April of the same year, providing air cargo services to clients principally in Latin America and the United States, operating over 600 flights which move near 60,000 tons of air cargo annually. In December 2000,

LAN Airlines LATAM Airlines Chile (formerly LAN Airlines and LAN-Chile) is an airline based in Santiago, Chile, one of the founders of LATAM Airlines Group, Latin America's largest airline holding company. The main hub is Arturo Merino Benítez International ...

purchased a 25% stake in Mas Air. In August 2015, it was announced that all

LATAM Airlines Group LATAM Airlines Group S.A. is an airline holding company headquartered in Santiago, Chile. It is considered the largest airline company in Latin America with subsidiaries in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru. The company filed for Ch ...

airlines would fully rebrand as LATAM, and Mas Air was rebranded as LATAM Cargo Mexico on May 5, 2016. On December 1, 2018, the LATAM Group sold its shares of LATAM Cargo Mexico, rebranding it back as ''Mas Air''; the latter now operates independently from LATAM. In April 2021, Mas Air announced the lease of two Airbus A330-200/P2F during the first quarter of 2022. The company reported the investment of more than $5 million dollars in the hiring and training of crew and technical personnel to operate the aircraft. In May 2021, it announced the lease of two additional Airbus A330-300/P2F aircraft. In December 2022, Mas purchase a 49% stake in Maltese charter Galistair Malta.

Destinations

Mas Air operates the following scheduled services:

Fleet

Current fleet

Mas Air's fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of November 2022):

Former fleet

Mas Air formerly operated the following aircraft:

References

External links

* {{Airlines of Mexico Airlines established in 1992 Airlines of Mexico Cargo airlines of Mexico Airlines of Mexico City 1992 establishments in Mexico