Conviasa

Conviasa (Consorcio Venezolano de Industrias Aeronáuticas y Servicios Aéreos S.A.) is a Venezuelan airline created in 2004. It is headquartered at the Simón Bolívar International Airport of Maiquetía, Maiquetía. Conviasa is the subsidiary of the former Ministry of Popular Power for Water and Air Transport (MPPTAA). Conviasa was the subsidiary of the former Ministry of Popular Power for Transportation and Communications. In November 2011, the latter was divided and created the Ministry of People's Power for Land Transportation and the MPPTAA. Then, the airline Conviasa becomes the Vice Ministry for the MPPTAA Airline Conviasa. On April 3, 2012, the European Union prohibited Conviasa from operating in its airspace. On July 10, 2013, the European Union lifted the veto, allowing it to make flights to the continent. On February 7, 2020, the United States government, through OFAC, sanctioned the airline, including its entire fleet of aircraft, restricting its air passage in that territory.

History

Beginnings

On March 30, 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez signed a decree to formally establish the airline. This decree was published the following day in the Official Gazette No. 37,910 of Venezuela.

On November 28, 2004, the inaugural flight was made with a De Havilland Canada Dash 7 aircraft, which flew from the Caracas "Oscar Machado Zuloaga" Airport in Charallave, Miranda State, to the Santiago Mariño Caribbean International Airport, on the island of Margarita. On December 10, 2004, Conviasa formally began its national and international operations.

Initially, the airline belonged to the extinct Ministry of Production and Commerce, but now its administration depends on the Ministry of People's Power for Water and Air Transport.

On February 7, 2020, the United States government, through OFAC, sanctioned the airline Conviasa, including its entire fleet of aircraft, restricting its air passage in that territory. Steven Mnuchin, who was Treasury Secretary at the time, maintained that the airline was the support of the Nicolás Maduro regime to transfer "corrupt" officials around the world. By 2022, Conviasa continued to be censored for the opening of flights over countries such as Argentina Chile and Colombia, in June a problem arose due to a Venezuelan Boeing 747-300 plane belonging to its subsidiary, the Venezuelan company Emtrasur, which was detained at the Ezeiza airport, Argentina.

Fleet

Current fleet

Airbus A340-300 de Conviasa

Aircraft	Assets	Orders	Parking	Passengers				Tuition	Antiquity	Notes
				F	C	And	Total
ATR 42-400	1	-	-	0	0	50	50	YV1009	27.4 years	Reincorporated in 2023
Airbus ACJ319	1	-	-	VIP				YV2984	21.9 years	Operating for the Government of Venezuela
Airbus A340-300	1	4	-	8	28	219	255	YV3507	25.4 years	Incorporated in 2020
Airbus A340-600	2	1	-	0	45	263	308	YV3533	21.5 years	Incorporated in 2022
								YV3535	20.5 years
								YV-?	20.6 years	Earring of delivery
Boeing 747-300	-	-	1	Charge				YV3531	37.2 years	Retained in Argentina since February 2022. Operated by Conviasa for its cargo subsidiary, Emtrasur Cargo
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan	5	-	-	0	0	13	13	YV2969	10 years
								YV2970	10 years
								YV2993	10 years
								YV2994	10 years
								YV3034	9 years
Embraer 190	6	-	9	0	0	104	104	YV2966	11.5 years	Only assets are reviewed
								YV2911	10 years
								YV2912	10 years
								YV2944	9.5 years
								YV2953	9.4 years
								YV3052	8.6 years
Embraer Lineage 1000	1	-	-	VIP				YV3016	14.9 years	Operating for the Government of Venezuela.
Total	17	1	10	Average age of the fleet (March 2023): 14.7 years.

Embraer E190 de Conviasa

Airbus A340-200 de Conviasa

Retired Fleet

De Havilland Canada Dash 7 de Conviasa

Bombardier CRJ-700 de Conviasa

ATR 72 de Conviasa

Boeing 737-300 de Conviasa

Destinations

Domestic destinations

International destinations

Countries	Destinations	Airports	From
BrazilBrazil	Mana	International Airport Eduardo Gomes	Puerto Ordaz
BoliviaBolivia	Santa Cruz de la Sierra	Viru Viru International Airport	Caracas
CubaCuba	Havana	José Martí International Airport	Caracas, Las Piedras and Managua
IranIran	Tehran	International Airport	Caracas
Mexico Mexico	Cancun	Cancun International Airport	Caracas
	Mexico City	Felipe Angeles International Airport	Caracas
NicaraguaNicaragua	Managua	International Airport Augusto C. Sandino	Havana
Russia Russia	Moscow	Moscow-Vnúkovo International Airport	Caracas
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	Argyle International Airport	Caracas and Havana
SyriaSyria	Damascus	International Airport in Damascus	Caracas

Emtrasur Cargo

747-300 from Emtrasur

Emtrasur is a subsidiary of Conviasa created on November 19, 2020 according to Decree No. 4,379 published in the official gazette of November 19, 2020 and that was active with a single cargo aircraft, Boeing 747-300 registration YV3531 with capacity of 90 tons or 600 cubic meters, its maiden flight was in February 2022 from Minsk, Belarus, bound for Caracas with 24 tons of medicines and medical equipment. Its last flights have been registered as suspicious. With 14 Venezuelan and 5 Iranian crew members, the aircraft was detained at the Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires in June 2022. The pilot of the Venezuelan-Iranian plane, Gholamreza Ghasemi, is questioned for operating under Tehran's orders. In October all the crew members were released, but the plane was detained when control measures were violated during the purchase from the Iranian company Mahan Air. The Venezuelan government has insisted that the aircraft be returned.

Accidents and incidents

• On 16 December 2005, the Conviasa flight 2600, a De Havilland Canada Dash 7 (YV-1003) with 36 passengers and 4 crew members on board, was forced to perform a belly landing at Porlamar airport when the landing gear was not deployed. After turning around Porlamar for an hour and a half to burn fuel, the aircraft landed without injuries.
• On 30 August 2008, a Boeing 737-200 (YV102T) took off from Caracas and headed to Latacunga, Ecuador, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Quito. On board there were three crew members (a captain, a first officer and a mechanic). The plane crashed in the mountainous area of the Andes of Ecuador, killing the three people on board. The Boeing 737 had been stored for a while in Caracas. He was being transported to Latacunga, allegedly on his way to a new owner.

• On 13 September 2010: Conviasa's 2350 flight: landed in Guayana City, Venezuela, at approximately 10:20 a.m. - local time; specifically on the SIDOR facilities, leaving 34 wounded and 17 dead, surviving only one steward by the crew. The plane, an ATR 42-320 registration YV-1010, covered the route Porlamar-Ciudad Guayana, making a commercial flight, when it was rushed over the installations of the Orinoco Siderúrgica, about 6 miles from its scheduled destination, without causing land victims or material damage of importance to the company, as the sinister occurred in a waste field. The crew had informed Manuel Carlos Piar Airport of Guayana City about its next arrival when it was about 10 miles away, and this had been the last communication with the control tower.