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Avant Airlines

AVANT Airlines was a Chilean airline owned by the Diez family, which also owned bus company TurBus. It started flying in 1997 and closed down in 2001.2 It is headquartered in Santiago.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1997Founded1
  • HeadquartersSantiago1

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Avant Airlines Boeing 737-200 Volpati
Photo: Christian Volpati, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons4

AVANT Airlines was a Chilean airline owned by the Diez family, which also owned bus company TurBus. It started flying in 1997 and closed down in 2001.2

The story

AVANT Airlines made its first flight to La Serena in 1997. In the following months, AVANT was flying to different cities in Chile. In January 1998, it acquired another Chilean airline, National Airlines, for 24 million US Dollars.

In 1999, AVANT went into bankruptcy despite having 30% of the Chilean air market. Its last flight was on March 10, 2001, a flight from Calama to Santiago, bringing the airline's existence to an end.

From Wikipedia’s article on Avant Airlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

  1. 2001Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1997Founded Founded1

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