Emtrasur Cargo is a Venezuelan airline. It is the cargo subsidiary of Venezuelan flag carrier Conviasa.

Controversies

Emtrasur owned a Boeing 747-300 that previously belonged to Iranian airline Mahan Air, a company that American assistant secretary of export enforcement at the Department of Commerce, Matthew S. Axelrod, alleges has helped the terrorist group, Hezbollah, in the past.^[1]

On June 8, 2022, the Boeing 747 arrived in Argentina, after a flight that originated in Mexico with a stop-over in Venezuela. Two days later, it flew to Uruguay on a refueling flight but was returned to Argentina that same day, landing at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires.^[2] It was kept in Argentine territory for two years.

The airplane ran into more controversy when a member of the Venezuelan embassy in Argentina took a photo of it, and, two days later, the Argentine government allowed it to be flown to the United States, where it landed on February 8, 2024. The airplane was then confiscated by the United States Department of Justice.^[3]

The American DOJ declared the airplane would be "prepared for disposition" without elaborating more on their plans for Emtrasur's jet.^[4] Meanwhile, the office of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has decried the actions overtaken by the governments of Argentina and the United States regarding Emtrasur's Boeing 747 as a collusion and a violation of "the commercial, civil and political rights of Emtrasur".

Fleet

Former fleet