ABSA Cargo Airline is a cargo airline

Cargo airline

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 based in Campinas

Campinas

Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....

, Brazil

Brazil

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. It operates scheduled services within Latin America

Latin America

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 and between Brazil and the United States

United States

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, as well as charter services. Its main base is Viracopos International Airport

Viracopos International Airport

Viracopos-Campinas International Airport is the international airport serving Campinas, Brazil. On January 6, 1987, the airport name was officially normalized to its present form....

, Campinas.

History

The airline was established and started operations on 2 June 1995 as Brasil Transair - Transportes Charter Turismo. In November 2001 LAN Airlines

LAN Airlines

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 bought a majority stake in the company. It is owned by LAN Airlines (74%), Jochmann (13%) and TADEF (13%) and has 285 employees (at March 2007).

Fleet

The ABSA fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2010):

• 3 Boeing 767-300F
  Boeing 767
  The Boeing 767 is a mid-size, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was the manufacturer's first wide-body twinjet and its first airliner with a two-crew glass cockpit. The aircraft features two turbofan engines, a supercritical wing, and a conventional tail...
  
  

External links

• ABSA Cargo Airline