With the aim of starting to fly and do so as the “flag airline” of Uruguay, a private capital company began the procedures with the National Directorate of Civil Aviation of the neighboring country.
According to several Uruguayan media published in recent days, the new company is called Uruguayan Aviation Society (YOUR).
The news came to light when both President Luis Lacalle Pou, and the Ministers of Defense, Transport, Tourism and Foreign Affairs, received a communication from the company announcing the presentation of the documentation for start operations In uruguay.
In communication with ClarionRemo Monzeglio, the Deputy Minister of Tourism of Uruguay, confirmed that there was a letter of intent from a businessman with experience in airlines, who wants to certify an airline to fly under the Uruguayan flag.
“With calm, expectation and feet on the ground, we hope that the process that must be completed – certification of aircraft and hiring of Uruguayan personnel – will be carried out within a reasonable period of time. To whoever, this airline or any other that tries and succeeds, we are going to support her and we wish him the best.”
What is known so far about Uruguay’s new airline
In principle we will have to wait for it to materialize their entry into functions, certifications and corresponding authorizations.
At the head of the Uruguayan Aviation Society is Antonio Rama, a Uruguayan commander who is a Boeing 777 instructor at Qatar Airways. He also founded U Air in 2002, a low cost company that operated until 2005.
YOURS WILL TEND AS base of operations Carrasco airport, Montevideo, and would begin with a fleet of six Airbus aircraft, with an expansion to 10 in the first three years. It would generate 300 direct high-skilled jobs and another 1,500 indirect jobs.
Amaszonas Uruguay, which stopped operating in 2021, was the last flag airline in this country. Before it was BQB Airlinesbetween 2010 and 2015. We must also remember Alaswhich operated in 2015 and 2016 with former workers of the famous airline Pluna: after 76 years of operations, on July 5, 2012, the government of José Mujica decided to end the operations of Pluna, as explained, due to financial and property insolvency .