BBC/ Long Feature on Boliviana de Aviacion (BoA)/ Andres Schipani/
From its first flight in March 2009, BoA's goal has been to increase and "democratize" the flying experience. "Basically by allowing air transport to be available for people who had never had the chance of flying, for people in a country with high levels of poverty who might be in desperate need of air transport - today it is crystal clear that more people are flying in Bolivia," says BoA's general manager Ronald Casso. BoA offers no business class. It's main competitor, Aerosur, calls BoA unfair. "What BoA is doing is to prostitute the market. And it is aimed at monopolising the market, personally by the president and its allies. This is a political battle because this government cannot stand private business," claims Aerosur official Gerardo Lopez.
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