Lanhsa (''Línea Aérea Nacional de Honduras S.A.'') was a

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 ...

based in

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

operating scheduled and charter services. The airline ceased all operations in April 2025, following the crash of

Aerolínea Lanhsa Flight 018 Aerolínea Lanhsa Flight 018, a British Aerospace Jetstream, was a Honduran charter flight to carry passengers from Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport, on Roatán Island, department of Islas de la Bahía, to Golosón International Ai ...

Destinations

As of March 2025: *

La Ceiba La Ceiba () is a municipality, the capital of the Honduran department of Atlántida (department), Atlántida, and a port city on the northern Caribbean coast in Honduras. It forms part of the southeastern boundary of the Gulf of Honduras. With ...

Golosón International Airport Golosón International Airport () is an airport located on the western side of the city of La Ceiba, in the Atlántida Department on the north coast of Honduras. It is also known as La Ceiba Airport (''Aeropuerto de La Ceiba'') and Hector C. ...

(LCE) * Roatan -

Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport () is an international airport located on the island of Roatán, in the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of Honduras. from DAFIF (effective October 2006) Roatán is in the Bay Islands Department o ...

(RTB) *

Guanaja Guanaja is one of the Bay Islands Department, Bay Islands of Honduras and is in the Caribbean. It is about off the north coast of Honduras, and from the island of Roatan. One of the cays off Guanaja, also called Guanaja or Bonacca or Low Cay ...

Guanaja Airport Guanaja Airport () is an airport serving Guanaja, an island of the Bay Islands Department in Honduras. Guanaja is one of the Bay Islands (''Islas de la Bahía'') located in the Caribbean, approximately off the north coast of Honduras and from ...

(GJA) *

Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa ( )—formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District ( or ''Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.''), and colloquially referred to as ''Tegus'' or ''Teguz''—is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its sister city, Comaya ...

Toncontín International Airport Toncontín Airport formerly Toncontín International Airport, also known as Teniente Coronel Hernán Acosta Mejía Airport is a civil and military airport located from the centre of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The History Channel programme ''Most E ...

(TGU) *

Puerto Lempira Puerto Lempira or Auhya Yari is the Miskito capital of the Gracias a Dios department in northeastern Honduras, located on the shores of the Caratasca Lagoon. Though it does not have paved roads, it is the largest town in the La Mosquitia regio ...

Puerto Lempira Airport Puerto Lempira Airport is an airport serving Puerto Lempira in Gracias a Dios Department, Honduras. It handles regional air traffic for the city. It is also a hub for general aviation and the Honduran Air Force. The airport is within Puerto Lem ...

, (PEU)

Fleet

As of March 2025: *

BAe Jetstream 31 The British Aerospace Jetstream is a small twin turboprop airliner, with a pressurised fuselage, developed as the ''Jetstream 31'' from the earlier Handley Page Jetstream. A larger version of the Jetstream was also manufactured, the Britis ...

- 4 aircraft *

BAe Jetstream 41 The British Aerospace Jetstream 41 is a turboprop-powered feederliner and regional airliner, designed by British Aerospace as a stretched version of the British Aerospace Jetstream, Jetstream 31. Intended to compete directly with 30-seat aircr ...

- 1 aircraft

Accidents and incidents

* On 4 January 2022, a BAe Jetstream 31 (registered HR-AYY) with 18 passengers and a crew of two suffered a right landing gear collapse while landing at Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport in Roatán from Guillermo Anderson International Airport in La Ceiba , causing the aircraft to run off the runway. All occupants were uninjured, but the aircraft was written off. *March 17, 2025,

crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff after a

runway excursion A runway excursion is a runway safety incident in which an aircraft makes an inappropriate exit from the runway. This happens mainly due to late landings or inappropriate runway choice. There are several types of runway excursions: * A depa ...

, killing 13 of the plane's 18 occupants.

External links

Official website

References

Airlines of Honduras Airlines established in 2011 Airlines disestablished in 2025 {{NorthAm-airline-stub, Aerolínea Lanhsa