After successfully completing the fourth phase of the certification process, advanced before the Civil Aeronautics, The Government of Colombia authorized the operation of the airline Ultra Air, which will offer air transport services.
(Ultra Air, the new airline that will take off from February in Colombia).
With the entry into operation of the new company, users will be offered greater connectivity possibilities, strengthening the market, the competitiveness of national air transport and the reactivation process as a fundamental engine of economic growth.
The routes that Ultra Air will operate initially, with two Airbus A-320 CEO teams, which met all the technical requirements, are:
– Bogota – Medellin – Bogota
– Bogota – Cali – Bogota
– Bogota – Cartagena – Bogota
– Bogota – Santa Marta – Bogota
– Bogota – San Andres – Bogota
– Medellin – Cartagena – Medellin
– Medellin – Santa Marta – Medellin
– Santa Marta – Pereira – Santa Marta
-Cartagena-Pereira-Cartagena
The Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, María Ximena Lombana, highlighted the entry of the new airline into the Colombian market, which is also the first company in the country qualified under the mega-investment regime.
(Ultra Air receives first plane with a view to starting operations).
“This tool was created by the Social Investment Law to encourage efficiency investment that boosts employment, productive linkages with local companies and turns the country into an export platform to strengthen its economic growth,” Minister Lombana said. And she added that, “In addition to boosting Colombian tourism, it improves the country’s connectivity and opens up new job opportunities for thousands of Colombian families, since the company will invest US$30 million and generate some 22,000 direct and indirect jobs over the next five years.”
With Ultra Air, Colombia reaches nine regular passenger operators, consolidating the national market as one of the most competitive, if one takes into account that during the year 2021 the air reactivation reached the mobilization of 30,531,412 passengers and 835,564 tons of cargo, and that the year closed with 97 new national air routes, 90 international ones approved and 74 air agreements signed that allow the country new possibilities of connectivity with states in different parts of the world.
Jair Orlando Fajardo Fajardo, general director of Civil Aeronautics, stated that “From the aeronautical authority we will continue working to reactivate air transport, open new markets and offer the best conditions for more air operators to enter and offer more and more alternatives to users; We hope that processes such as the one carried out with Ultra Air, in an agile and expeditious manner, motivate new operators to enter the Colombian air market”.
(Aerocivil endorsed Ultra Air to operate in Colombia).
According to the aeronautical authority, the airline complied with a certification process that consists of five phases, as it had been developing in the previous processes, but with much more demanding additional verifications in aspects of special operations, fatigue management, attention to victims and safety on the ground.
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