Viamar

Viamar, acronym for Viação Aérea Maracatibenha  (Maracatibean Aerial Transport) is an airline of Maracatibe. It is also the oldest Maracatibean air transport company, being founded in 1919. Viamar is the largest Maracatibean airline in number of passengers, owning 39,7% of the internal market. Viamar has 317 aircrafts and operates in 124 national airports and 70 foreign destinations.

History
Viamar was founded on June 17, 1919, in São Pedro, São Pedro province, by Ricardo da Silveira Castro, a businessman born in Jungastia. The company's first name was Viação Interprovincial de São Pedro (VIASP), and its first plane was the Ares ____ hydroplane, which VIASP had 4 and made the routes São Pedro - São Antônio, São Pedro - Natal and São Pedro - Barra Vermelha. In September 1922, entrepreneurs Armando Coimbra and Marcos Paulo Queirós decided to invest in the airline industry, but before creating their own company, they decided to invest in VIASP, after meeting Ricardo Castro on a trip with his airline. Queirós and Coimbra were important in the first expansion of the company, which consisted of specializing in the transportation of cargo and mail through Coamar (Correios Aéreos Maracatibenhos), and also in the expansion of routes, which now include Urutiba, São José and Indaiataba,  that the plan was to cover the entire Maracatibean coast.

In 1926, however, the company would be nationalized by the Popular Republic of Maracatibenha, and its name would be changed to Viação Aérea Maracatibenha, and was a subsidiary of the state-owned Companhia de Transporte Aéreo de Maracatibe. Founder Ricardo Castro dies that year, and Queirós and Coimbra take over the company. In the 1930s, the company acquired more aircraft and expanded routes within the already covered provinces. In 1944, with the end of the socialist government, Queirós and Coimbra decided to fight for the right of ownership of the company, and won, initiating a great expansion subsidized by the government.

In 1947 the already called Viamar made its first international flights, to Zahava, and the following year, to Albaterra and Theyka. The first trans-iapetus route was to Agrana y Griegro. At the time Viamar used the name Avalonian Equatorial Airlines for its international destinations, but that name was extinguished in 1971.

The end of government subsidies and the economic crisis almost led to the bankruptcy of the company in the 1980s, and the government had to allow the foreign company _____ to buy 33% of Viamar. With the Maracatibian "tourist revolution" in the 20th century, the company doubled in size and fully recovered.

In popular culture
In the  Maracatibean mmove Lago de Sangue (1960) - Blood Lake - the protagonist Eusébio Borba - a detective played by Áureo Montenegro - travels on Viamar planes, fights enemies on them and takes control of a hijacked flight.