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Throwbacks
November 11, 2021 7:00 am ET -
Throwback Thursday: Zuliana De Aviacion and A Venezuelan Scrapyard
Zuliana De Aviacion was a Venezuelan airline formed in 1985 and based in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Initially starting out as a cargo airline, it later started passenger flights. In addition to several domestic routes, the airline expanded into…
February 7, 2019 12:28 am ET -
TBT (Throwback Thursday) in Aviation History: African Safari Airways
In the mid-1960s, Swiss entrepreneur Karl Jakob Rüdin was interested in branching out and creating a vacation getaway in Kenya that would create a complete getaway with the company taking care of everything for passengers along the way. The tour…
January 31, 2019 8:00 am ET -
TBT (Throwback Thursday) in Aviation History: Western Airlines
Western Airlines had a long and storied history spanning six decades. Like many early airlines, the carrier was founded with a mail contract and tasked with transporting mail for the government. In the early days of aviation, the U.S. Postal…
December 20, 2018 4:51 pm ET -
TBT (Throwback Thursday) in Aviation History: Alas Uruguay
A few months after PLUNA’s demise and liquidation, Uruguayan aviation was lacking a flag carrier and, most importantly, a strategy. There were a couple of private operators that jumped right into the extinct carrier's routes. Former Pluna employees were bound…
December 13, 2018 10:00 am ET -
TBT (Throwback Thursday) in Aviation History: DETA Air
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the newly-formed Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region of Europe would become a melting pot of new privatized airlines looking to capitalize on new markets and untapped services inside these newly independent nations.…