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Amaszonas
Linea Aerea Amaszonas (Amaszonas Airline) is an airline in Bolivia, operating passenger services to towns in the North and Northeast of Bolivia.
Amaszonas has services from La Paz, Cochabamba (in central Bolivia) and Santa Cruz (in eastern Bolivia) to 7 towns in the Beni Department and the Pando Department and between towns in this area. The major destinations are Trinidad (capital of the Beni Department) and Rurrenabaque (on the Beni River).
(According to the timetable (Itineraries on the website of Amaszonas) the little town Santa Ana is also a destination, though it doesn't appear from the map 'Our Destinies' on the website).
Another airline similarly serving the Beni Department with small planes is TAM - Transporte Aereo Militar
Website: www.fab.mil.bo/I/48000/48100/48130/Principal.htm
TAM uses bigger planes than Amaszonas. (TAM uses among others the Fokker F27 with 44 seats).
About the flights La Paz - Rurrenabaque:
Amaszonas uses small planes (15 - 17 passengers). Cancellations are frequent because of the special conditions in Rurrenabaque: The runway is a grass field giving some problems in wet weather; it may turn into mud that the planes can't land on. The runway will be paved, the work is going on, but it isn't expected to be finished in 2007. Also, low clouds can prevent planes from landing, and the nearby mountains dont make things better.
Amaszonas smallest plane has 10 seats.
The shortest flight on Amaszonas is twenty minutes from Riberalta to Guayaramerin, 48 miles away.
The airlines could instead use the airport in the nearby town Reyes (32 kilometres and one hour by bus at north east), but they seldom do so. There are no mountains near Reyes, and the airport often has better weather and not so low clouds. (Reyes (Los Santos Reyes) is the capital of the Jose Ballivian Province in the Beni Department).
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