{"id":369,"date":"2012-07-11T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T21:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2012-09-16T15:29:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T19:29:16","slug":"defunct-pluna-crjs-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/defunct-pluna-crjs-up-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Defunct Pluna CRJs up for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-573\" title=\"Pluna Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/logo_pluna_nuevo.jpg\" alt=\"Pluna Logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"180\" \/>It has been announced by the government of Uruguay, that it is planning to auction off the CRJ900s that were once operated by the county&#8217;s national airline Pluna SA. It also announced that a search is on, as an alternative option, to find a group willing to acquire the planes, hire the company&#8217;s employees and re-establish the airline.<\/p>\n<p>The Uruguayan transport ministry\u00a0may provide financing if jobs are saved and debts owing by the bankrupt carrier to the state are honored, according to a draft bill currently being drafted and is expected to be passed sometime this week.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations are that the auction of the CRJs will be completed within sixty days.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian investment group Chorus Aviation Inc. paid\u00a0$15 million in 2010 for a one-third stake in the holding company that owns 75% of Pluna&#8217;s shares, with the Uruguayan government owning the remaining 25%.\u00a0Pluna flew to Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay. It also operated flights to Spain and Miami through partnerships with Iberia and American Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft involved in this situation are thirteen CRJ-900LRs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>CX-CRA \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN 15165<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRB\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN 15169<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRC\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN 15175<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRD\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN\u00a015180<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRE\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN\u00a015185<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRF\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN\u00a015204<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRG\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN\u00a015209<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRH\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN\u00a015233<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRI\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN\u00a015234<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRK\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN\u00a015239<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRL\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN\u00a015273<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRM\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN\u00a015274<\/li>\n<li>CX-CRN\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0MSN\u00a015275<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All are currently, as of this date, stored at Montevideo Carrasco airport in Uruguay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been announced by the government of Uruguay, that it is planning to auction off the CRJ900s that were once operated by the county&#8217;s national airline Pluna SA. It also announced that a search is on, as an alternative option, to find a group willing to acquire the planes, hire the company&#8217;s employees and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/defunct-pluna-crjs-up-for-sale\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[12,238,237,123,29],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fleet-update","category-news","tag-canadair-regional-jet","tag-fleet-update","tag-news","tag-pluna","tag-rj900","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}