Oceanair
Oceanair (IATA: TJ) was a regional airline that flew out of San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU). It competed on domestic routes with Prinair, and on routes to the Virgin Islands with Prinair, and with Aero Virgin Islands, using prop driven aircraft.
The airline flew from the late 1970s, when it started flying as Trans Commuter Airline, to the mid-1980s.
According to the Oceanair February 15, 1982 system timetable, the airline operated up to thirteen flights a day between San Juan (SJU) and St. Thomas (STT), up to nine flights a day between San Juan (SJU) and St. Croix (STX), and two flights a day between St. Thomas (STT) and St. Croix. The airline was operating 40-passenger Fairchild F-27 turboprops and 10-passenger Beechcraft Queenair prop aircraft at this time.
Oceanair was featured on Los Chicos' movie, Coneccion Caribe.
Fleet
The fleet consisted of Fairchild F-27 and CASA 212 turboprops as well as Beechcraft Queenair prop aircraft.
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Avianca Brazil
Avianca Brazil (Portuguese: Avianca Brasil), officially Oceanair Linhas Aéreas S/A, is a Brazilian airline based in São Paulo, Brazil. It operates passenger services from 25 destinations. Its main bases are Brasília and São Paulo-Guarulhos airports.
Even though the legal name of the airline remains OceanAir, it has been re-branded as Avianca since it is owned by Synergy Group, which owns Avianca Holdings. Avianca (Colombia) and Avianca Brazil remain separate legal entities. Its CEO is José Efromovich, who is the younger brother of Germán Efromovich.
According to the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil (ANAC), between January and December 2014 Avianca Brazil had 8.4% of the domestic and 0.08% of the international market shares in terms of passengers per kilometer flown, making it the fourth largest airline in Brazil, after TAM, Gol, and Azul.
History
OceanAir
The airline was established in 1998 as an air taxi company to operate services for oil companies in the Campos Basin. Its name was then OceanAir and began to operate scheduled services in 2002, between São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Macaé and Campos. Soon afterwards, it started to become better known to the public with a flight (no longer operated now) connecting Congonhas Airport in São Paulo and Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro via São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, enabling international passengers from both cities easy access to the country's largest international hub from those cities' smaller but central and more convenient airports. At the time, OceanAir's fare between São Paulo's airports was cheaper than a taxi and on a par with a luxury bus ride.
