Varig Natal along the Brazilian coast and was thus better prepared to compete with Panair do Brasil and Cruzeiro do Sul. In 1949 the Brazilian government granted to Varig the concession to fly to the United States, since the original airline which had the concession, Cruzeiro do Sul, was unable to operate the services. The inaugural flight between Rio de Janeiro-Galeão and New York-Idllwild (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) was on . The services were operated by three new Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellations. On flights to Buenos Aires using Curtiss C-46s started. In January 1956 Varig served 55 cities
South Airlines 13 air disaster in Donetsk), with types of them being Antonov An-24RV, Embraer EMB-500, Saab 340B and Yakovlev Yak-42. The South Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of December 2012): South Airlines South Airlines (, ) was a charter airline based in Odessa, Ukraine. The airline was registered in 1999 in Odessa, Ukraine. In 2000 the company was certified by the State Aviation Service of Ukraine. South Airlines operated scheduled and charter flights. In the beginning the company operate with 6 types of airplanes: Antonov An-24, Antonov An-30, Antonov An-140, Yakovlev Yak-40, Let L-410 Turbolet and Tupolev Tu-134.