Rio de Janeiro – Galeão Airport Rio de Janeiro – Santos Dumont Airport
Fleet size
24 (at the time of the shutdown)
Destinations
60 locations in Brazil (41 of them in the Amazon region) and 16 abroad, as of May 1964
Parent company
NYRBA (1929–1930) Pan American World Airways (1930–1961) Planejamento e Administração Guanabara (1960–1965)
Headquarters
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Key people
Ralph O'Neill (founder) Paulo de Oliveira Sampaio (CEO 1943–1955; 1961–1965) Mário Wallace Simonsen (owner 1961–1965) Celso da Rocha Miranda (owner 1961–86) Rodolfo da Rocha Miranda (owner and CEO 1986-present)
Panair do Brasil was an airline of Brazil. it ceased operations in 1965. Between 1945 and 1965, it was considered to be the largest carrier not only in Brazil but in all of Latin America.
PanairdoBrasil was an airline of Brazil. it ceased operations in 1965. Between 1945 and 1965, it was considered to be the largest carrier not only in...
Pan Am, Air France, BOAC, KLM, Qantas, Lufthansa, Iberia Airlines, PanairdoBrasil, TAP Portugal, Trans-Canada Air Lines (later renamed Air Canada), Aer...
the original passenger terminal and was used by all airlines except PanairdoBrasil and Pan American World Airways, which used their own facilities. Owing...
to Santiago, Chile. Its Brazilian subsidiary NYRBA doBrasil was later renamed as PanairdoBrasil. Pan Am also partnered with the Grace Shipping Company...
the Portuguese TAP Transportes Aéreos Portugueses and the Brazilian PanairdoBrasil (1960–1965) and Varig (1965–1967). In order to further promote the...
Brazilian coast and was thus better prepared to compete with PanairdoBrasil and Cruzeiro do Sul. In 1949, the Brazilian government granted Varig the concession...
Mercer Airlines (Burbank, CA) Cruzeiro do Sul National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) PanairdoBrasil Canadian Department of Transport Brazilian...
fortress hub). The first airline alliance was formed in the 1930s, when PanairdoBrasil and its parent company Pan American World Airways agreed to exchange...
1961. September 25, 1932: the PanairdoBrasil Sikorsky S-38 registration P-BDAD, still bearing the titles of Nyrba doBrasil, was seized in the company's...
Marshall Airways Qantas Empire Airways Brazil Aeronorte Cruzeiro do Sul PanairdoBrasil VARIG Canada Canadian Airways Trans-Canada Air Lines Chile LAN...
operation Cuba PanairdoBrasil October 22, 1929 February 16, 1965 Brazil Founded as Nyrba doBrasil. Name changed to PanairdoBrasil in 1930. Bankruptcy...
Other series VI customers included Indian Airlines (9), PanairdoBrasil (4), Cruzeiro do Sul, Iberia Líneas Aéreas De España (4), LAN Chile (3), Aerolíneas...
Pacific Airlines, Japan Air Lines, Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, and PanairdoBrasil. American carriers Capital Airlines, National Airlines and Pan Am placed...
airline alliance was formed in the 1930s when Pan Am and its subsidiary, PanairdoBrasil, agreed to codeshare routes in Latin America when they overlapped with...
Argentina de Navegación Aérea) Bahamas Bahamas Airways Brazil NYRBA doBrasilPanairdoBrasil Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira) Republic of China...
of Aeronautics, Gomes signed a controversial decree that shut down PanairdoBrasil, the country's flag carrier airline. He remained as Minister of Aeronautics...
airport, originally called Santo Amaro do Ipitanga Airport, was established in 1925. In 1941 PanairdoBrasil participating in the World War II efforts...
with six Concordes each. Other airlines in the order book included PanairdoBrasil, Continental Airlines, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa, American Airlines...
economy (e.g., shutting down by decree the country's flag carrier, PanairdoBrasil). Castelo Branco's government, unlike previous directly elected Presidents...
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