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Avianca Costa Rica, formerly known as Lacsa (''Spanish: Lineas Aéreas Costarricenses S.A.''), minority owned by the Synergy Group, is the national airline of Costa Rica and is based in San José. It operates international scheduled services to over 35 destinations in Central, North and South America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our History )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LACSA Lineas Aéreas Costarricenses – Details and Fleet History )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LACSA )〕 When it was a subsidiary of Grupo TACA, the airline was also known as TACA/LACSA. Since May 2013, when Grupo TACA was bought, Avianca Costa Rica is one of the seven nationally branded airlines (Avianca Ecuador, Avianca Honduras, etc.) in the Avianca Holdings group of Latin American airlines. == History == Lacsa was established on 17 October 1945 by Pan American World Airways, the Costa Rican government and Costa Rican private interests. It started operations on 1 June 1946 and was designated the national carrier in 1949. Its domestic network was transferred to its wholly owned subsidiary Sansa in September 1959. Lacsa operated the Douglas DC-6B four-engined piston airliner from 1960 until 1976 on their regular passenger, and eventually freight, scheduled flights to Miami International Airport. The airline introduced the first of their British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven twin-engined jet airliners onto their Caribbean passenger route network in April 1967.〔Eastwood & Roach, 2004, p. 170〕 The airline also operated a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac Airways (CBA) Ltd.,〔http://www.timetableimages.com, May 1, 1965 Cayman Brac Airways system timetable〕 which it sold a 51% controlling interest in the late 1960s to the Cayman Islands government which in turn used the air carrier to form Cayman Airways. Lacsa served Grand Cayman for many years as an intermediate stop on its services between San Jose, Costa Rica and Miami.〔http://www.timetableimages.com, Dec. 1, 1970 LACSA system timetable〕 Since 1999, the five airlines in the alliance began flying under the TACA brand. In 2008 a new TACA logo was introduced, followed by a new fleet of Embraer 190 airplanes registered in Costa Rica and operated under the Lacsa code. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avianca Costa Rica」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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