BRA Transportes Aéreos


BRA Transportes Aéreos was a short-lived Brazilian low-fare airline based in São Paulo, Brazil, which used to operate both domestic and international scheduled services, as well as charter flights. Its main base was São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport. BRA was the third largest airline in Brazil with 4.19% of the domestic Brazilian market as of August 2006.
On 6 November 2007 BRA announced that it would suspend all of its flights starting on 7 November and leave all of its 1,000+ employees under mandatory notice of termination of employment.

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1999. It was formed as a domestic charter airline Brasil Rodo Aéreo by Panexpress Viagens e Turismo and transformed itself into a low-fare airline from March 2006, rebranded as BRA Transportes Aéreos. In July 2007 BRA started a code-share agreement with OceanAir, substantially increasing their domestic destinations.
In 2009 the airline was back in operations with charter flights. The airline had a solo Boeing 737-300 ex-Gol Airlines, but it was sold to Puma Air, a Brazilian airline that started operating jets in 2010.
On June 18, 2009 BRA had its authorization to operate non-regular passenger flights renewed for one year by the Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency. Therefore, BRA operated flights on behalf of other airlines or parties, as contracted.

Destinations

BRA Transportes Aéreos operated only non-regular passenger services on behalf of other airlines or parties, as contracted.
Previously, BRA operated services to the following scheduled domestic destinations :
BRA operated services to the following international destinations:
Scheduled flights:
Charter :
Present fleet :
None.
Fleet as of August/2009:
By the time BRA first ceased its operations, its fleet consisted of the following aircraft:
It had the following orders and/or options: