Viva and NEB

latinaviation

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NE Bolivia press release

New website, management and clearly no longer involved with Viva- for their benefit, I am sure.

TRISTAR CAPITAL (Nevada) LLC purchases 35%, finances and leases Lockheed L1011 Tristar 300 Passenger Aircraft to NORTHEAST BOLIVIAN AIRLINES SA ("NEBA") commencing charter flights from Latin America to the Caribbean and other points by October 1st.
NORTHEAST BOLIVIAN AIRLINES SA ("NEBA") is a Bolivian Charter Airline that will soon to take off from Cochabamba, Bolivia to provide charter services to other airlines, tour operators, cruise lines, sports teams, UN or military troop transportation and quite possibly VIP, head of state or music tours and similar productions. NEBA has taken delivery of its first of (3) Lockheed L1011 Tristar wide-body aircraft with 300 seats in a two (2) class configuration for worldwide charters, sub-service contracts, VIP flights and wet-lease programs leased from and financed by TRISTAR CAPITAL (Nevada) LLC of Carson City, Nevada USA. Bolivia was chosen as a viable investment target due to its political stabilization, the fact that Bolivia is an FAA Categroy 1 Country with very stringent certifcation and safety standards and in part due to low labor and facilites cost structure, due to high number of high quality well trained and experienced airline management, techncial personnel and flight crews. In addition Bolivia has a stratigic location in the center of South America that make it feasable to pick up charter or wet-lease programs from airlines and tour operators neighboring MERCOSUR countries.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA (PRWEB)4 Sep 2003

TRISTAR CAPITAL (Nevada) LLC as owner/lessor and The Flightstar Group, Inc. of Florida as aircraft manager are pleased to confirm it has funded and delivered its first of three Lockheed L1011 passenger aircraft to NEBA or NORTHEAST BOLVIAN AIRLINES SA (NEBA) f/k/a Northeast Bolivian Airways Ltda.

Mr. John Poindexter, the managing member of Tristar Capital LLC and a Director-Board Member of NEBA confirms the first fully refurbished and custom painted Lockheed L1011-50 Tristar aircraft powered by ROLLS ROYCE RB211 engines is Stage 3 noise compliant as well as CAT 3 auto-land certified. The L1011-50 aircraft, formerly operated by TWA and refurbished by Hamilton Aerospace Technologies was delivered by TRISTAR CAPITAL LLC and flown non-stop 8.5 hours from Tucson, Arizona to Cochabamba, Bolivia arriving on the evening of July 12th.

Our L1011 aircraft is undergoing Bolivian DGAC (CAA) certification, reregistration to Bolivia, inspections and is being used for NEBA flight attendant and techical crew training.

TRISTAR CAPITAL (Nevada) LLC has completed the acquistion and purchase of 35% of Northeast Bolivian Airlines, SA and will sit on the board of directors. Tristar Captial LLC is also providing NEBA with an interim line of credit for tooling, equipment and working capital sufficent to take care of crew training, airline recertification and upgrading of the airline from a smaller 33 year old family owned airline operator to a truely ?World Class Wide Body Charter Operation".

Northeast Bolivian Airlines SA currently has about 25 employees (about 50 full time employees are planned in the next quarter). There are 4 L1011 technical and airline business planning consultants on board or under contract from TRISTAR CAPITAL LLC that are working diligently to recertify the airline by October 1st, 2003.

Northeast Bolivian Airlines SA (NEBA) is planning to add 2 more Lockheed L1011?s in an identical configuration of 300 seats (28 business class and 272 economy) within the next 3 to 6 months. In addition NEBA is negotiating with a major European aircraft lessor for 3 Dornier 328 new generation 32 passenger regional aircraft to work as an EXPRESS affiliate of an established Bolivian airline.

In addition NEBA has entered into a letter of intent to acquire 2 Boeing 727-100C Cargo Stage III aircraft from FLIGHTSTAR CAPITAL (Nevada) LLC for startup of regional and intra South America cargo opertions or even hauling its own freight from Paraguay, Ecuador and Bolivia.

Northeast Bolivian Airlines SA and TRISTAR CAPITAL LLC may be seeking additional expansion capital or access to credit facilites or lease-financing of newer generation jet aircraft after it is fully operational, fully recertified and flying on contracts.

NEBA or NORTHEAST BOLIVIAN AIRLINES SA has a website with photos and information that is up and running.
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JMH59

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Why aren't you critical of their plan to use L1011s? I read where someone on this board refered to the L1011 as the "Tri-tanic."
 

latinaviation

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I don't know much about the L-1011, but I am critical of Viva's business plan in general. Never before have I seen an airline change or modify business plans as often as this group. In the last week alone they have put out press releases regarding their Saab fleet, acquiring 767s, 727-100 freighters, L-1011s and DC-9-15s. This is beyond their other press releases about 747s, 737s, 727-200s, Falcon Air Express, etc.
 

latinaviation

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Keith,

Northeast Bolivian was originally a subsidiary or in some sort of partnership with Viva - the Dominican carrier. All along, they were going to get an L-1011 to run charters from deep South America to the DR, Cuba, etc.

There is a lot of history between the principals of NE Bolivia, Viva and the DR - threads in the past elaborate on this quite a bit.

I trust this explains the relationship.
Brian
 

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Weird: NE Bolivain/Flightstar plans to buy two 727-100 freighters and some L-1011 soon. They annouced that earlier this week.

Viva also announced this week that they will acquire two 727-100 freighters and "one" L-1011 aircraft.

Are they still "sleeping" together?
 

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Viva Update

Viva International Forms Air Services Division and Appoints Division President
Friday September 12, 7:26 am ET


FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2003--Viva International, Inc. (OTCBB:VIVI - News) announced this morning that it has formed an air services division and has appointed Arnold Leonora as the division's interim President.
Stuart Carnie, President and CEO of Viva International, Inc. made the above announcement and commented, "We have a number of projects and opportunities under development that Management expects to contribute significant revenues and profits to Viva and obviously add shareholder value. However, to effectively bring these projects to fruition in an orderly fashion it is necessary to add additional executive talent to our organization. Arnold Leonora has many years of airline industry experience and shares with me a common vision and excitement over the Viva plan and business opportunity".

Mr. Carnie added, "Be sure to keep tabs on our Company web site at vivainternational.org for updates on the air services division's products and services".

In other news, the Company announced that Captain Ron Greene plans to begin his DC-9 training at North West Airlines in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The crews will move through ground school and simulator training over the next 30 days.

Captain Greene said, "We expect that the completion of our training will coincide with the completion of return to service maintenance checks that will be performed on the Company's DC-9's so that a smooth transition into operations results".

In conjunction with the provisions of the "Safe Harbor" section of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, this release may contain forward-looking statements pertaining to the future anticipated projected plans, performance and developments, as well as other statements relating to future operations. All such forward-looking statements are necessarily only estimates of future results and there can be no further assurance that actual results will not materially differ from expectations. Further information on potential factors that could affect Viva International, Inc. is found in the Company's Form 10-K and other documents filed with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.



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