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Santa Bárbara Airlines, also branded as SBA Airlines, was an airline with its headquarters on the third floor of the Edificio Tokay in Caracas, Venezuela.[1] It operated scheduled domestic and international services. Its main base was Simón Bolívar International Airport, Maiquetía (Caracas).

History

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Former logo from 2005.

The airline was established on 1 November 1995 and started operations on 1 March 1997. At March 2000, the airline had 80 employees and a fleet of three ATR 42-300s to serve both a domestic and a regional network that consisted of Aruba, Barquisimeto, Barranquilla, Caracas, Coro, Curaçao, Las Piedras, Maracaibo, Mérida, Santa Barbara Zulia and Valencia.[2] It wholly owned Islas Airways until September 2006, when Islas was sold to the Canary Islands company Grupo SOAC.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Santa Bárbara Airlines was rechristened as SBA Airlines in 2008, following the acquisition of the carrier by Aserca Airlines.[3]

At first it only covered airline flights to Cabimas, Mérida, El Vigía and Santa Bárbara del Zulia. The route to Alberto Carnevali Airport in Mérida was diverted to El Vigía-Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo International Airport after the crash of Flight 518. Later, the airline took new destinations which covered the routes to Barquisimeto, Caracas, Cumaná, Las Piedras (Punto Fijo), San Antonio del Táchira and Valencia with a single overseas flight that covered the route Caracas – Oranjestad (Aruba).[4]

In early 2009, a 245-seater Boeing 767-300ER was introduced into the fleet to replace a wet-leased aircraft of the same type, and Funchal and Madrid were incorporated into the international network (which already included Miami, Quito and Tenerife) in June the same year.[3]

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In late January 2018, the National Institute of Civil Aviation suspended SBA Airlines for 90 days citing the airline's impossibility to fulfil the schedules, amid the cancellation of some flights that left stranded passengers in Miami.[5][6] At this time, the Caracas–Miami route was the only service the airline had available to book at its website.[5] SBA Airlines ceased operations on Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., after it returned its air operator's certificate.[7][8]

Destinations

SBA Airlines served the following scheduled destinations as of January 2018.[9] After all flights were suspended by government authorities on 26 January 2018,[10]

Country City Airport Notes Refs
Aruba Oranjestad Queen Beatrix International Airport
Curaçao Willemstad Hato International Airport
Ecuador Quito Mariscal Sucre International Airport
Guayaquil José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport
Panama Panama City Tocumen International Airport Terminated [11]
Portugal Madeira Funchal Airport
Spain Madrid Madrid-Barajas Airport Terminated [12]
Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Tenerife Los Rodeos Airport Terminated [13]
United States Miami Miami International Airport
Venezuela Caracas Simón Bolívar International Airport Template:Airline hub
El Vigia Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso Airport
Maracaibo La Chinita International Airport
Punto Fijo Josefa Camejo International Airport
Valencia Arturo Michelena International Airport

Fleet

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A Boeing 767-300ER in SBA Airlines livery departing Madrid–Barajas Airport in 2009.
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A Boeing 757-200 in the Santa Bárbara Airlines livery landing at Miami International Airport in 2004.

Final fleet

As of May 2017, the SBA Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:[14]

SBA Airlines Fleet
Aircraft Total Orders Passengers[14] Notes
J Y Total
Boeing 757-200 2 — 24 154 178
Boeing 767-300ER 3 — 18 224 242
Total 5 —

Previous fleet

Over the years, SBA Airlines had operated the following aircraft types:[15][16]

SBA Airlines Previous Fleet
Aircraft Introduced Retired Notes
Airbus A330-200 2015 2015 Leased from Hi Fly[17]
ATR 42-300 2005 2008
ATR 42-320 1997 2006
Boeing 727-200 2003 2008
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31[18] Un­known Un­known
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 2002 2005
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 2009 2018 Leased from Aserca Airlines
McDonnell Douglas MD-83 2009 2018

Accidents and incidents

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See also

References

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  1. ↑ "Oficinas Script error: No such module "webarchive".." SBA Airlines. Retrieved on January 17, 2012. "Calle 3B, Edificio Tokay, Piso 3, La Urbina."
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External links

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