Colombia’s Ultra Air secures AOC and preps for launch

Ultra Air (Medellín José Maria Córdova) will commence flight operations on February 23, having secured its air operator’s certificate (AOC) from the Colombian civil aviation authority (Aerocivil) last week.

In a statement, the nascent budget carrier said it would service the following domestic Colombian routes:

Bogotá – Medellín – Bogotá;
Bogotá – Cali – Bogotá;
Bogotá – Cartagena de Indias – Bogotá;
Bogotá – Santa Marta – Bogotá;
Bogotá – San Andrés – Bogotá;
Medellín – Cartagena – Medellín;
Medellín – Santa Marta – Medellín;
Santa Marta – Pereira – Santa Marta;
Cartagena – Pereira – Cartagena.
Backed by USD30 million in initial capital, Ultra Air currently has a fleet of two A320-200s with two more awaiting delivery.

According to the ch-aviation capacities module, the domestic Colombian market is currently dominated by Avianca Airlines (AV, Bogotá) with 43.32% of the 745,010 weekly seats available followed by LATAM Airlines (LA, Santiago de Chile Int’l) with 24.55%, Viva (VH, Medellín José Maria Córdova) with 23.27%, EasyFly (Colombia) (VE, Bogotá) with 5.18%, Satena (9R, Bogotá) with 2.68%, and GCA Air (9A, Cali) with 0.77%.