Aviandina

The airline was founded on March 21, 1999. It started operations in mid-November of that year, leasing its three jets from AeroContinente, two leased Boeing 727-100s and one Boeing 737-200, and flying a 10-city network from Lima. Zadi Desme, a former AeroContinente consultant, owned 30% of the airline at its start, with the remainder held by an undisclosed foreign investor. Under Peruvian law, enacted in a context of deregulation of the country's commercial aviation sector in the early 1990s, foreigners were entitled to own up to 70% of a local airline.

Destinations

Peru

Arequipa (Rodríguez Ballón International Airport)

Chiclayo (FAP Captain José Abelardo Quiñones González International Airport)

Cusco (Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport)

Incidents

On March 19, 2000, Aviandina Flight 4173, a Boeing 727-100 (reg. OB-1731) on a scheduled passenger flight from Arequipa to Juliaca deviated to Tacna after suffering an in-flight landing gear failure. The situation forced the crew to divert to Tacna, where the plane landed with its right main landing gear retracted after the pilots flew for over an hour on a holding pattern to burn all aircraft's fuel before the emergency landing. The aircraft sustained substantial damage, but no injuries or fatalities occurred. The plane was scrapped a year later.