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Aero Continente Dominicana
Aero Continente Dominicana was short-lived airline based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, operating out of Las Américas International Airport on behalf of Aero Continente from Peru, its parent company.
History.
Aero Continente decided to establish a wholly owned subsidiary in Santo Domingo in 2001. Thus, Aero Continente Dominicana was created and it received one Boeing 737-200 aircraft in May 2002. Over the following months, a limited number of scheduled flights to Miami was offered. In August 2003, the aircraft
, which forced the airline to cease all flight operations. As a consequence, the Chilean subsidiary was re-integrated into mainline Aero Continente, which claimed the grounding had been rather motivated by concerns that the company had become too strong a competitor for LAN Airlines, the Chilean flag carrier.
"Aero Continente Dominicana", a second wholly owned subsidiary based in Santo Domingo, had been founded in late 2001. This short-lived business adventure lasted only roughly one year, operating a limited number of flights from the Dominican