Aero Costa Rica was an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

. It has ceased operations.

Airline Information

• ICAO Code: AEK
• Callsign: Acorisa
• IATA Code: ML
• IATA Number: 211
• Hub: Juan Santamaría International Airport
  Juan Santamaría International Airport
  Juan Santamaría International Airport is located in Alajuela Province, about from downtown San José, Costa Rica. It is a hub airport for TACA/Lacsa, and focus city airport for Copa Airlines. It is named after Costa Rica's national hero Juan Santamaría, a courageous drummer boy who died in 1856...
  
  
• Destinations: 6

Fleet and History

Aero Costa Rica ACORI, S.A. started service on May 11, 1992 with two Boeing 727-200 Ex-Pan Am (N353PA and N354PA) in route San José-Miami as its only destination network. In July 1992 flight ML 211 made and emergency landing in Grand Cayman when the flight engineer

Flight engineer

Flight engineers work in three types of aircraft: fixed-wing , rotary wing , and space flight .As airplanes became even larger requiring more engines and complex systems to operate, the workload on the two pilots became excessive during certain critical parts of the flight regime, notably takeoffs...

forgot to open and auxiliary fuel valve after taking off from Miami. Later that year route San José-San Pedro Sula-Orlando was inaugurated but company decided to drop it off four months later. In 1993 fleet was changed from 2 Boeing 727-200 to 2 Boeing 737-200 (N170PL and N171PL); with this flight equipment routes from San José to Atlanta (ATL) and San Andrés Islas (ADZ) were added. In the mid-1990s the airline also had a Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to San Jose (ICAO-MROC / FAA, IATA - SJO) route
Due to serious financial difficulties and bad administration, both 737s were returned to the lessor at the end of 1994. In 1995 the airline purchased a Boeing 727-100 (ex-American Airlines N1974) named "Por Fin". This aircraft remais parked in Miami. The company wet-leased aircraft and crews from Falcon Air of Miami from October 1996 until July 1997,From July 1997 through September 1997 the Company Wet leased 727's (N12304 /N203AV )including crews from Nations Air Express based in Atlanta GA.Nation's Air flew routes between San Jose and Miami and Orlando during that time frame, After which it finally collapsed. Owner Calixto Chaves Zamora intended to sell the airline to a Pakistani company based in Miami and represented by a Cuban-American named Osiris Rosario. The check Chaves received had no funds and the company could not remain in business any longer.