Colombia: Aerocivil approved Ultra Air´s project and operations will begin soon

Aerocivil, the Colombian aeronautical authority, gave the go-ahead and approved the low-cost Ultra Air´s project to advance the process of obtaining its operator certificate.

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Ultra Air has already started the certification process to start operating in the Colombian aeronautical market as soon as possible. The company already has 10 million dollars of capital accumulated in the last 8 months. It promises to reduce rates by 20%, presenting a 5% growth in earnings for travel agencies and the hotel industry in the coming years and generating 36,000 new direct, indirect and induced jobs.

William Shaw, founder and CEO of Ultra Air, said: «We are happy about this decision, since our presentation in November last year we have been working to meet the requirements demanded by the authority. This approval becomes a vote of confidence in the project and in our investments to develop an ultra-low cost product that stimulates the air market.

Everything had started with the first request of the legal representative of the company William Shaw to Aerocivil in November of last year at the public hearing. There, it had applied for an operating permission for its regular flights and cargo to 26 destinations within Colombia and another 15 international ones. The fleet expects to be completed with 40 aircraft and will be made up of Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 MAX 8. The base will be the Rionegro airport, located in the interior of Medellín.

The domestic routes are:

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From	To	Frequency
Bogotá	Medellín	42 weekly flights
Bogotá	Cali	35 weekly flights
Bogotá	Cartagena	35 weekly flights
Bogotá	Santa Marta	35 weekly flights
Bogotá	San Andrés	28 weekly flights
Bogotá	Pereira	21 weekly flights
Bogotá	Barranquilla	14 weekly flights
Bogotá	Bucaramanga	14 weekly flights
Bogotá	Cúcuta	14 weekly flights
Bogotá	Riohacha	14 weekly flights
Bogotá	Pasto	14 weekly flights
Bogotá	Leticia	14 weekly flights
Bogotá	Montería	14 weekly flights
Medellín	Cali	17 weekly flights
Medellín	Cartagena	21 weekly flights
Medellín	Santa Marta	21 weekly flights
Medellín	Barranquilla	14 weekly flights
Medellín	Bucaramanga	14 weekly flights
Medellín	Cúcuta	14 weekly flights
Medellín	Riohacha	14 weekly flights
Medellín	Pasto	14 weekly flights
Medellín	Leticia	14 weekly flights
Medellín	Montería	14 weekly flights
Santa Marta	Pereira	14 weekly flights
Cartagena	Pereira	14 weekly flights
Santa Marta	Cali	14 weekly flights
San Andrés	Cali	14 weekly flights
Cartagena	Cali	14 weekly flights
Barranquilla	Cali	14 weekly flights

 

While the international routes are:

From	To	Frequency
Bogotá	Mexico City	14 weekly flights
Bogotá	Cancún	14 weekly flights
Bogotá	Miami	14 weekly flights
Bogotá	Santo Domingo	7 weekly flights
Bogotá	Quito	7 weekly flights
Bogotá	Lima	7 weekly flights
Bogotá	Curazao	7 weekly flights
Bogotá	Guayaquil	7 weekly flights
Medellín	Miami	11 weekly flights
Medellín	Cancún	11 weekly flights
Medellín	Mexico City	11 weekly flights
Medellín	Guayaquil	7 weekly flights
Medellín	New York	7 weekly flights
Medellín	Aruba	4 weekly flights
Medellín	Punta Cana	4 weekly flights

William Shaw, the businessman with 26 years of experience in the aeronautical sector and former director of Interjet between 2019 and 2020, created Ultra Air as an opportunity generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Today it hopes, with the growth of its low cost, to be able to be a direct competitor of LATAM, Avianca and Viva.