Varig Porto Alegre, by Otto Ernst Meyer-Labastille, a German aviator decorated in the World War I, who immigrated to Brazil in 1921 and noticed how necessary air transportation was for a large country like Brazil. Varig was an off-spring of the German trade company and airline Condor Syndikat, thus sharing the same origin as Syndicato Condor, later renamed Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul. Condor Syndikat gave the initial operational and financial support and for a short time Varig and the sister-company Syndicato Condor operated in partnership. The first aircraft of VARIG was a ten-passenger Dornier Do J Wal flying boat, transferred
Southern Star Airlines Southern Star Airlines Southern Star Airlines was a domestic airline based in Juba, the capital and largest city of South Sudan. Southern Star Airlines was founded since the independence of the country in July 2011. The airline owned only one aircraft, which was one de Havilland Canada DHC-8-100, registration . Southern Star Airlines' inaugural flight took place on 20 August 2011. However, after only two months of ""erratic operations"", the airline closed, shut down all operations, and gave away its one and only aircraft to the Kenyan-based airline ALS. Southern Star Airlines formed in 2011 shortly after its independence from