LASER Airlines

LASER (Linea Aerea de Servicio Ejecutivo Regional) is an airline based in Caracas, Venezuela. It operates scheduled and passenger charter services within Venezuela. Its main base is Simón Bolívar International Airport, Caracas.^[1]

History

The airline was established in 1993 and started operations in 1994. The airline was taken over by Inocencio Alvarez (Chairman) in 1999 after it came close to bankruptcy.^[1]

Destinations

LASER operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (as of March 2007): Caracas and Porlamar^[1], linked by 10 daily flights. It should be noted that this is the most competetitive route in the Venezuelan market.

LASER Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9/30 taxiing at Simón Bolívar International Airport, Maiquetía

Services

e-ticketing

LASER offers online bookings through a system managed by e-savtravel, a system developed by JDM and that is also used by other midsize Latin American airlines like Aero Cóndor, Santa Bárbara Airlines, LC Busre, Star Perú and the regional airlines that belong to Grupo TACA forming TACA Regional: Aeroperlas, Isleña, Tiara Air, La Costeña, Regional and SANSA.

Fleet

The LASER fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007) ^[1] :

• 1 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-10
• 2 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30

External links

• LASER Airlines
• LASER in airliners.net

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 105.