In this Saturday (11/11), TV Culture airs a new episode of second season de Last Landing – The Story Seen from Above, produced by the broadcaster. Starting at 22h, the public knows the history of Integrated Regional Air Transport System (SITAR).
The plot begins in 1975, when the Federal Government and the main airlines in Brazil met to find a solution to a problem that affected the coverage of the national airline network at a regional level.
At the end of the 1950s, 354 Brazilian cities were served by regular flights; by the 70s, that number had plummeted to just 80 regular destinations. The most isolated locations were no longer served because they had precarious infrastructure to operate with the larger planes that arrived or because their routes had an unsustainable operational cost.
The Integrated Regional Air Transport System (SITAR), created in November 1975, divided the country into five regions with the aim of developing regional aviation. The five new companies, Nordeste, Rio-Sul, Taba, TAM and Votec, each served a specific regional network, designed according to operational criteria by the system's creators.
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