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GENSA (acronym for General Serviços Aéreos), was an
regional airline A regional airline is a general classification of airline which typically operates scheduled passenger air service, using regional aircraft, between communities lacking sufficient demand or infrastructure to attract mainline flights. In North ...
and air taxi headquartered in Campo Grande, Brazil. It was founded in 1996 in São Paulo and remained in operation until April 2019, offering air taxi services and charters with its only plane.


History


GSA-Globo Serviços & Aerotáxi (1996-1999)


Establishment

GENSA's history dates back to 1996, when it was founded in São Paulo as GSA-Globo Serviços & Aerotáxi, an air taxi company focused on charter flights for travel agencies and corporate flights, using an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante, registration PT-SOG ( 110490), with the main partner being company Charmclubs Brasil, owned by businessman Marcos Ferreira Sampaio, founder and owner of
Pantanal Linhas Aéreas Pantanal Linhas Aéreas S.A. was a regional airline based in São Paulo, Brazil and incorporated by TAM Linhas Aéreas in 2013. It served destinations mainly in the southeast region of Brazil from its bases at Congonhas and Guarulhos airports i ...
. With the change of Pantanal Linhas Aéreas operations to the southeast region of Brazil in May 1997, GENSA moved its headquarters to Campo Grande, in
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, where it inherited all the infrastructure left by the airline, taking over flights to Dourados and Ponta Porã using its only plane and later, incorporating a second Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante "borrowed" by Pantanal. In 1998, it suspended all regular routes previously operated by Pantanal, returned the second plane that had been incorporated a year earlier and transferred its only Embraer Bandeirante to
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, in
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, Minas Gerais, to fulfill a transport contract signed with the Italian manufacturer
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.


General Serviços Aéreos (1999-2019)

With the end of the contract with FIAT in 1999, GSA-Globo Serviços & Aerotáxi requested authorization from the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil ( ANAC) for non-scheduled passenger and cargo flights, and to change its name to GENSA (General Serviços Aéreos), becoming a supplementary transport airline, qualifying to be outsourced to fulfill a contract between Pantanal and
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to transport workers between
Manaus Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ...
and the oil and natural gas province of Porto Urucu. The contract with Petrobras ended at the end of 2000 and at the beginning of the following year, GENSA suspended its operations until the end of 2002 to carry out a heavy maintenance process ( C-Check) on its only aircraft. During this period, GENSA transferred its headquarters to São Paulo, returning again to Mato Grosso do Sul in 2002 to restart its operations connecting Corumbá and Rondonópolis to Campo Grande from November 17, 2002. The airline's intention was to increase the number of destinations in Mato Grosso do Sul and expand to
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with the arrival of another EMB 110 Bandeirante, registration PT-SHN ( 110460), and plans to incorporate four Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia into the fleet. During this period, the airline also started flying to
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,
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, Cuiabá,
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,
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, Nova Mutum, Sapezal and Sinop. However, with the resumption of Passaredo Linhas Aéreas flights in Mato Grosso, GENSA changed its plans and returned to being a charter and non-scheduled cargo airline in 2005. In 2007, it was still planning its return to regular flights and charter flights with EMB 120 Brasilia aircraft; two aircraft, registrations PR-GSA ( 120119) and PR-GSB ( 120127), were even delivered to the airline in 2008, but never flew and are still today stored at
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. The airline then started to offer air taxi services using it's two EMB 110 Bandeirante.


Voe Canelinha

In 2015, GENSA tried again to return to the air market with domestic flights, operating a regular route between Porto Alegre and Canela, a tourist city located in the Serra Gaúcha, in
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. The initiative called ''"Voe CaneLinha"'' was a partnership with Opções Turismo to connect the capital to the tourism hub in the interior, with six daily flights. The project would last a few weeks until operations were suspended due to maintenance problems with its only active aircraft. On October 17, 2016, GENSA tried again to launch its flights in Rio Grande do Sul, this time through a partnership with Air Sul Viagem Aérea, expanding services and the number of destinations, with flights also to Bento Gonçalves, with the aircraft receiving the livery from Air Sul. However, at the end of the same year, flights were canceled due to lack of demand.


Voa Piauí

In July 2017, GENSA was hired by TWfly Turismo to participate in the ''"Voe Piauí"'' initiative, launched by the
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state government to promote air connectivity between the capital Teresina and tourist cities on the coast and interior, such as Picos,
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and
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. However, on November 28, 2017, it suspended all flights due to scheduled maintenance ( 1C-Check) of the EMB 110 Bandeirante PT-SOG. At the end of 2017, GENSA transferred its only plane to Eduardo Gomes International Airport, in
Manaus Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ...
, starting to operate in partnership with
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, transporting 12 tourists who would do sport fishing in the Amazonas and two pilots; there were no survivors.


Destinations

Throughout its history, GENSA has operated in the following destinations:


Fleet

At the time of suspension of operations in April 2019, the GENSA fleet consisted of the following aircraft:


See also

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Manaus Aerotáxi Manaus Aerotáxi is a passenger airline in Brazil; it operates air taxi services across jungle cities and South America. Its main office is located at Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus.Pantanal Linhas Aéreas Pantanal Linhas Aéreas S.A. was a regional airline based in São Paulo, Brazil and incorporated by TAM Linhas Aéreas in 2013. It served destinations mainly in the southeast region of Brazil from its bases at Congonhas and Guarulhos airports i ...
*
List of airlines of Brazil This is a list of active airlines in Brazil holding an Air Operator Certificate issued by the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil as of August 20, 2022. The list does not include purely Specialized and Air Taxi companies. National regular and ...


External links


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References

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