LAI – Línea Aérea IAACA (legally ''Industria Aero Agrícola C.A.'') was an airline based in Barinas,
Venezuela
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History
The airline was founded in 1992 as a cropdusting company. It later turned into an air taxi service. LAI became a regular airline in 1995.
The airline stopped operating on September 27, 2006, after financial problems. After the cessation, a group wanted to make an airline label to achieve and reach number one among passenger airlines, to connect the tourist destinations from and to Venezuela, with a modern fleet and high-tech equipment.
Destinations
LAI operated to the following destinations:
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Acarigua
Acarigua (), founded as San Miguel de Acarigua, is a city in northwestern Venezuela, in the northern part of the state of Portuguesa (state), Portuguesa.
Formerly the state capital, it is a major commercial center for the northern Llanos regio ...
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Oswaldo Guevara Mujica Airport
Oswaldo Guevara Mujica Airport ( es, Aeropuerto General de Brigada Oswaldo Guevara Mujica) , is an airport serving Acarigua, a city in the Portuguesa state of Venezuela.
The Acarigua VOR-DME (Ident: AGV) and non-directional beacon (Ident: AGV) a ...
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Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
Barinas Airport
Barinas Airport ( es, Aeropuerto de Barinas) is an airport serving Barinas, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Barinas.
The Runway 13 length includes a displaced threshold.
The Barinas VOR-DME (Ident: BNS) and non-directional beacon (Ide ...
Carúpano
Carúpano is a city in the eastern Venezuelan state of Sucre. It is located on the Venezuelan Caribbean coast at the opening of two valleys, some 120 km east of the capital of Sucre, Cumaná.General José Francisco Bermúdez Airport)
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Ciudad Bolívar
Ciudad Bolívar (; Spanish for "Bolivar City"), formerly known as Angostura and St. Thomas de Guyana, is the capital of Venezuela's southeastern Bolívar State. It lies at the spot where the Orinoco River narrows to about in width, is the sit ...
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Tomás de Heres Airport
Tomás de Heres Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Nacional Tomas de Heres, ) is an airport serving Ciudad Bolívar, the capital of the Bolívar state of Venezuela.
The airport is named in honor of Tomás de Heres, a hero of Latin American independence ...
Antonio José de Sucre Airport
Antonio José de Sucre Airport is a commercial airport serving Cumaná, the capital of Sucre state in Venezuela.
The Cumana VOR-DME (Ident: CUM) is located on the field.
Airlines and destinations
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*Transport in Venezuela
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Guanare
Guanare () is the Capital city, capital and most populated city of Portuguesa State, Venezuela. It is where la Our Lady of Coromoto, Virgen de Coromoto is said to have appeared to a Coromoto Indian.
Guanare was founded on 3 November 1591 by Jo ...
Güiria
Güiria is the capital city of Valdez Municipality in the Venezuelan state of Sucre. Güiria was the place where the military campaign for South American independence set out to Upper Peru and also a starting point of the 1901 Venezuelan Civil W ...
Maturín
Maturín () is a city in Venezuela, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Monagas and a centre for instrumental exploration and development of the petroleum industry in Venezuela. The metropolitan area of Maturín has a population of 401,384 inha ...
Alberto Carnevalli Airport
Alberto Carnevalli Airport is an airport located southwest of downtown Mérida, the capital of Mérida State in Venezuela. It is named in honor of Alberto Carnevalli ( es), a Venezuelan lawyer and political activist.
The airport is in the C ...
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Porlamar
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Pueblo de La Mar ( en, Village by the Sea)
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Santiago Mariño Caribbean International Airport
Santiago Mariño Caribbean International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional del Caribe "Santiago Mariño", ) is an airport west-southwest of Porlamar, the largest city on Isla Margarita, an island in the state of Nueva Esparta in Venezuela.
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Valera
Valera is a city in Trujillo State in Venezuela, situated between the rivers Momboy and Motatán. The mayor is José Karkom, who has had that post since 2013. The city is home to Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Colombian and Spanish communi ...
(Antonio Nicolas Briceño Airport)
Fleet
Linea Aerea IAACA included the following aircraft:
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Beechcraft Model 18
The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. Continuously produced from 1937 to Novem ...
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ATR 42-300
The ATR 42 is a regional airliner produced by Franco-Italian manufacturer ATR, with final assembly in Toulouse, France.
On 4 November 1981, the aircraft was launched with ATR, as a joint venture between French Aérospatiale (now Airbus) and A ...
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ATR 42-320
The ATR 42 is a regional airliner produced by Franco-Italian manufacturer ATR, with final assembly in Toulouse, France.
On 4 November 1981, the aircraft was launched with ATR, as a joint venture between French Aérospatiale (now Airbus) and A ...
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ATR 72-200
The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner developed and produced in France and Italy by aircraft manufacturer ATR (french: Avions de transport régional or it, Aerei da Trasporto Regionale), a joint venture formed b ...
See also
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List of defunct airlines of Venezuela
This is a list of defunct airlines of Venezuela.
See also
*List of airlines of Venezuela
* List of airports in Venezuela
References
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Venezuela
Airlines
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