Jungastiana (airline)

Linha Aérea Intercontinental Jungastiana (LAIJ) (: Jungastian Intercontinental Air Line') is the airline of Jungastia. Commonly known by its initials LAIJ or as Jungastiana, the airline is dominant in its home market, as well as operating one of the largest route networks globally. The airline is owned indirectly by the Jungastian government, through the 75% holding of shares by the Jungastian Sovereign Wealth Fund. The remaining shares are traded publicly on the Bolsa de Valores de Santo André. LAIJ is a founding member of the X Alliance along with Koryeo Air Serivces and Realm Airways, one of the largest airline alliances in the world.

LAIJ has its home base at Aeroporto Internacional de Santo André, where it controls almost 60% of all slots, as well as having a dedicated terminal. The Airline also has hub presence at Aeroporto de Paços de Brandão in the south of the country. Secondary hubs are spread globally, with significant focus on Placeholder not!Hawaii and Sátão forming integral parts of LAIJ's vast trans-Iapetus network - benefitting from Jungastia's convenient interchange location and its strategic overseas provinces. Focus cities of Cidade Baptista, Albaterra and Sudo, Koryeo form a part of LAIJ's growing Avalonian business.

History
The roots of LAIJ lie in the forced merging of the three main northern air carriers in the early 1920s. Transporte e Viagens de Aeronaves (TVA), Navegação Aérea Jungastiana (NAJ), and Viação Aérea Santo André (VASA) were all competing on similar routes along Jungastia's populated North and its Eurybian Islands. With the arrival of the dictatorship, the government took a stronger involvement in managing air traffic, and forced the merger of the three air services in 1921, much as it had done with forming LAIJ, the government also merged the remaining air carriers into Aeropostal creating a government owned duopoly for the foreseeable future.

The first flight under the LAIJ name took place on 25 October 1921, flying from Santo Andre to Monte Real, Agrana y Greigro and making its first truly intercontinental flight. By December of 1921 LAIJ was flying three times a week to Monte Real, marking the first scheduled intercontinental flight globally.

The division of routes saw LAIJ given all empire, all trans-Iapetus and all non-Kesh flights, giving it a strong position to develop a wide spread route network continuing to this day. The Vasconcelos Islands in the mid-Iapetus provided a key stopping off point in the early days of trans-oceanic flight.

As the airline industry across the world grew LAIJ began its aggressive expansions as a directly controlled government body, focussing on creating a route network covering all corners of the globe and utilising the strategic positioning of the Jungastian colonial possessions to allow it to operate routes unrivalled by its competitors. The arrival of larger planes, capable of flying greater distances saw LAIJ grown its share not only of national, but international passenger levels.

The 1940s saw LAIJ introduce long-range pressurised planes, allowing the number of stops on trans-oceanic flights to drop dramatically.

Cabin
LAIJ operates with four main cabin classes for international long haul routes, Primeira, Executiva, Viajante Plus and Viajante. All cabins on long haul aircraft have audio-video on-demand and the addition of WiFi on all planes is planned by 2022. Short haul international flights operate with a three class service level, Executiva Regional, Viajante Plus and Viajante and most planes feature audio-video on-demand. Domestically LAIJ operates a two or three class service of Executiva Doméstica, Viajante Plus and Viajante. In addition Flagship or Carro-Chefe short haul flights operate with an exclusively Business Class service.