Cerverana (airline)

Sindicato Nacional Cerverana de Aviación (: Cerveran National Aviation Corporation), commonly known as Cerverana, is the  and largest airline of Cervera. Founded in 1928, the airline came under government control following the Directivist Revolution and acquired a near monopoly on domestic air traffic through forced mergers and acquisitions, while expanding its footprint in Avalonia to become one of the dominant airlines of the continent. Wholly owned by the Cerveran government and managed under the Directorate of Transportation, Cerverana is not a member of any but operates codeshare agreements with LAIJ and Arbenzo de Aviación among others.

Cerverana's home base is at Matanzas Raul Garcia International Airport, the country's largest by volume, where it holds two terminals and controls nearly 75% of available slots; a second hub at Puerto Fortuna International Airport catering to Avalonian tourist traffic was opened in 1996. Focus cities of Niguernon and Yivanna augment this trans-Ingonian business model.

History
The first fare-paying commercial flights in Cervera began in 1919, when a seaplane service between Puerto Fortuna and the resort island of Captiva began operation. Though popular among the upper classes, internal instability and mounting debts forced this early attempt at an airline to fold by 1922. Renewed interest in a national airline began in the waning days of the SiWallqanqa occupation and Sindicato Nacional Cerverana de Aviación was founded in October 1927 using repurposed military transport and training aircraft for passenger service and air mail delivery. The onset of the Directivist Revolution early the following year curtailed these activities once more, with several Cerverana aircraft being reclaimed by both Republican and Directivist military forces throughout the conflict.

At the conclusion of major hostilities in 1931, Cerverana was nationalized by the nascent Directivist government and resumed domestic passenger and mail service with surviving SiWallqanqan aircraft as well as newly-purchased Jungastian models. International service was slow in coming owing to the international community's reluctance to recognize the Directivist regime, but by the 1940s routes had been established to Theyka, Zahava and Koryeo as well as the Vasconcelos Islands of Jungastia.

The 1950s saw the dawn of the Jet Age coincident with a general thaw in relations between the Directorate and outside world, culminating in the establishment of trans-Iapetus routes to Santo Andre, Teutonia and Tiperyn and later as far as Aftarestan and Ringerike. Despite these successes, a series of accidents in the mid-1950s caused by the then little-known phenomena of damaged Cerverana's reputation abroad and led to declines in transcontinental traffic into the 1960s.

In 1973, Cerverana reached the zenith of its international coverage with the opening of a trans-Tethys flight to Sukhbataar, Selengeria, the first of a number of planned flights to eastern Kesh on the trans-Tethys approach. Shifting economic conditions stymied these ambitions, however, and led to a gradual drawdown of transcontinental traffic which had never firmly established its profitability. By 1990, only nine Keshite and Artemian countries contained destinations for Cerverana, from a high of twenty-two in 1974.