STAMP ISSUES RELATED TO ICAO (from 1996 to 2013)

 

Bolivia : International Civil Aviation Day

 

Issue date: 10/12/2007

 

 

Bolivian Airways Boeing 737-200 or 737-300; in the background: earth as seen from space, focused on the American continent, with the country of Bolivia highlighted in blue.

 

Airbus A380; in the background:  world map with country of Bolivia highlighted by its flag colours: red, yellow and green.

 

Se-Tenant (adjacent stamps).

 

Blocks of 4 stamps.

 

Philatelic notice. The background shows the silhouette of a Boeing 737 and the emblem of the Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil. Here-after is the full picture of the DGAC’s emblem.

 

 

      

 

 

First Day Cover – Boeing 737-200 or 737-300 taking-off into the sunset. Only 200 Pieces (numbered on the back) were produced.

 

 

Background: Celebration of the International Civil Aviation Day in 2007 on the theme: "Global Air Transport — A Driver of Sustainable Economic, Social and Cultural Development"; the 2007 International Civil Aviation Day focused on benefits of air transport around the world. There is a mismatch between the day of celebration of the International Civil Aviation Day (7 December) and the actual day of this stamp issue (10 December).

The cancel is dated 10-12-07; a priori, it is not clear whether this means 7 December 2010 or 10 December 2007; however, the philatelic notice removes this possible ambiguity, as the date of issue is specified there: 10/12/2007.

 

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, an EADS subsidiary. The largest passenger airliner in the world in 2007, the A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France, and made its first commercial flight on 25 October 2007 from Singapore to Sidney with Singapore Airlines. The aircraft was known as the Airbus A3XX during much of its development phase, but the nickname Superjumbo has since become associated with it.

On 14 February 2019, Airbus announced it will end the A380 production by 2021, after its main customer, Emirates, agreed to drop an order for 39 of the aircraft. One reason that the A380 did not achieve commercial viability for Airbus has been attributed to its extremely large capacity being optimised for a hub-and-spoke system, which was projected by Airbus to be thriving when the programme was conceived. However, airlines underwent a fundamental transition to a point-to-point system, which gets customers to their destination in one flight instead of two or three. But the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 means superjumbo fleets are disappearing from our skies sooner than expected.

In February 2019, Airbus announced it will end the A380 production by 2021, after its main customer, Emirates, agreed to drop an order for 39 of the aircraft, replacing it with 40 A330-900s and 30 A350-900s. Airbus will build 17 more A380s before closing the production line in 2021.