SACO (Colombia)

SACO
(Servicio Aéreo Colombiano)
IATA ICAO Call sign
- - SACO
FoundedJune 15, 1933
Commenced operationsJune 27, 1933
Ceased operationsJune 14, 1940 (merged with SCADTA to form Avianca)
AlliancePan Am
HeadquartersBogotá, Colombia

The Colombian Air Service (Spanish: Servicio Aéreo Colombiano), or SACO, was an early Colombian airline. Founded in 1933, in 1940 SACO merged with the Colombo-German Air Transport Company (Sociedad Colombo-Alemana de Transportes Aéreos, or SCADTA); the new company was named Avianca (Aerovías Nacionales de Colombia).[1] Avianca still operates to this day, and claims SCADTA's history as its own, thus making it the second-oldest airline in the world.

  1. ^ Burden, William Armistead Moale. The Struggle for Airways in Latin America (reprint), p.73. Arno Press, New York, 1977. ISBN 0-405-09716-6