Aerocóndor Colombia
Aerocóndor Colombia was founded by six former LANSA[1] and Avianca pilots; Gustavo Lopez, Luis Donado, Eduardo Gonzalez, Juan B. Millon, Captain Julio Martin Florez, and Enrique Hanaberg, in association with two businessmen who together perceived an opportunity to establish a new airline to fly cargo from Colombia's northern industrial city of Barranquilla throughout the republic.In 1975, financial control of Aerocóndor passed from the company's foundation management to Jorge Barco Vargas, formerly an Aerocivil chairman and the brother of a former president of the republic.In 1977, the airline entered the wide-body era when it acquired a factory fresh Airbus A300, named "Ciudad de Barranquilla" in honor of the company's port of origin.The financially strapped carrier soon entered a period of major crisis, due to poor control and internal corruption rather than market forces.Over the years, several of the pensioners of the airline had protested countless times demanding payment, overdue since the liquidation of the company.