AVIANCA - SOUTHERN CROSS

AVIANCA

A study of the Southern Cross will be incomplete if it does not include the oldest airline operating in the southern hemisphere  and I call this airline AVIANCA (an acronym for Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia SA) known until 1940 with the thrilling name of SCADTA.

Thes company's southern cross services started as early as 1946 with DC4

AVIANCA DC4 (Bogota)  "Avianca Douglas DC-4 Volpati" by Christian Volpati - http://www.airlinefan.com/airline-photos/large/2093479/Avianca/Douglas/DC-4/HK-728/. Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avianca_Douglas_DC-4_Volpati.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Avianca_Douglas_DC-4_Volpati.jpg

 as we all know, South American countries did not suffer from the devastating effect of of ww2 on their economies , on the contrary, they prospered  by offering much needed  raw material to the allies for their war effort,

The DC4 services to Europe were quickly upgraded to L749 constellation and then to the 1049 Super Constellation.

"Avianca Constellation Proctor" by Jon Proctor - http://www.airlinefan.com/airline-photos/large/2100964/Avianca/Lockheed/Super-Constellation/HK-184/. Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avianca_Constellation_Proctor.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Avianca_Constellation_Proctor.jpg

The timetable dated May 1, 1954  provides us with this following route operated once weekly : HAMBURG-FRANKFURT-MADRID-LISBON-SANTA MARIA (Azores)-BERMUDA-BARRANQUILLA-BOGOTA.

AVIANCA SOUTHERN CROSS SERVICE-May 1954

The December 1, 1958 timetable 

AVIANCA  timetable dated December 1, 1958. www.timetableimages.com/Bjorn Larsson collection

shows the " El Colombiano" a weekly southern cross service linking Frankfurt with Bogota with the following en route stops PARIS,MADRID, LISBON, SANTA MARIA,SAN JUAN, and BARRANQUILLA,

AVIANCA SOUTHERN CROSS SERVICE-DecemberECEMBER 1958

Jet operations will be launched in 1960 when AVIANCA leases a PAN AMERICAN B707  (N711PA " Clipper Mayflower")  pending the delivery of its Boeing 720B of which 2 were originally ordered . They will be delivered on November 7, 1961 and November 8 1961 and will carry the names of "Simon Bolivar" and "Francisco Paulo de Santander"

AVIANCA LUGGAGE TAG. pinterest.com/copyright unknown

AVIANCA B720B HK-724 SIMON BOLIVAR (JFK) -"Boeing 720-059B, Avianca JP7305833" by Jon Proctor - Gallery page http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7305833Photo http://images3.jetphotos.net/img/3/6/1/3/55035_1327630316.jpg. Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_720-059B,_Avianca_JP7305833.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Boeing_720-059B,_Avianca_JP7305833.jpgJon Proctor/commons.wikimedia.org

 YOUR TIMETABLE

AVIANCA  timetable dated July 1967. www.timetableimages.com/Bjorn Larsson collection

YOUR SCHEDULE

YOUR MAP

AVIANCA SOUTHERN CROSS SERVICE-July 1967

YOUR CARRIAGE  

"HK-726 B720-059B AVIANCA JFK 09JUL70 (6053413904)" by Ken Fielding - Flickr. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HK-726_B720-059B_AVIANCA_JFK_09JUL70_(6053413904).jpg#mediaviewer/File:HK-726_B720-059B_AVIANCA_JFK_09JUL70_(6053413904).jpg

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