Alas Uruguay
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| Founded | October 2013 | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | January 2016 (Scheduled) | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 3 | ||||||
| Destinations | 4 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||||||
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Alas Uruguay is an airline in Uruguay. It was founded by former employees of PLUNA, which closed in 2012, as a public company most of its life, or mixed economy in recent years, although Alas Uruguay was started as a private company. Its bases are Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo and Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. Curbelo International Airport in Punta del Este. The new company of former PLUNA workers adopted the name Alas-U, but in October 2013 renamed it to Alas Uruguay. It commenced operations the 21st of January, 2016 using Boeing 737 aircraft.
Today Alas Uruguay is a worker-owned company, self-managed by it workers.
History
Since the collapse of PLUNA in 2012, after 76 years of being founded in 1936. The new company was initially called Alas-U, and in October 2013 reformulated Alas Uruguay. It is the unofficial flag carrier of Uruguay. Alas Uruguay commenced operations January 21st, 2016 with a flight from Montevideo to Asunción, Paraguay.
Destinations
| City | Country | Airport | Notes |
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| Asunción | Paraguay | Silvio Pettirossi International Airport | |
| Buenos Aires | Argentina | Aeroparque Jorge Newbery | |
| Montevideo | Uruguay | Carrasco International Airport | Hub |
| Punta del Este | Uruguay | Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. Curbelo International Airport | |
| Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Galeão-Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport | (To begin in 2016) |
| Santiago de Chile | Chile | Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport | (To begin in 2016) |
| São Paulo | Brazil | São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport | (To begin in 2016) |
Fleet
| Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||
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| J | Y | Total | ||||
| Boeing 737-300 | 3 | 132 | 132 | |||
| Total | 3 | |||||
The first Boeing 737-300 equipped with blended winglets was delivered to the airline in January 2015. Sourced from Ukraine International Airlines (UIA),it will be painted in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Later in 2015 was a second aircraft from UIA and third from Southwest Airlines delivered.
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