Avianca Costa Rica new fleet of Embraer 190 airplanes registered in Costa Rica and operated under the LACSA code. In 2009, Aerovías del Continente Americano S.A. (Avianca) and TACA announced their merger plans to be completed in 2010. By 2013, the airlines began operating as a single commercial brand using the Avianca name. According to the May 31, 1973 LACSA system timetable, the airline was serving the following international destinations: This same timetable states that all international flights were being operated with British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven twin jets at this time with the exception of the San José-San Andres Island route which
Avianca Costa Rica was being flown with a Convair 440 propliner. The airline was operating to such international destinations in 1984 as: These cities were flown to using Lacsa's Boeing 727 aircraft. As of August 2017 the LACSA fleet consisted of the following aircraft: LACSA services were previously flown exclusively by Airbus A320 family jetliners drawn from the pooled fleet of the former Grupo TACA. In 2008, a new fleet of Embraer 190 jets was introduced. On May 23, 1988, a leased Boeing 727-100, registered TI-LRC and operating the route San José-Managua-Miami, collided with a fence at the end of the runway in