Definitive goodbye to Aerogal brand by Avianca-Ecuador

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With official request before the CNAC – National Civil Aviation Council of Ecuador, the Avianca Holdings S.A group. may the definitive end to the Aerogal brand by Avianca-Ecuador.

The radio called AeroGal as such has ceased to be used on all Avianca Ecuador flights since the 17 July 2018 and has become Galapagos, as a new call sign between the pilots and air traffic controllers ATC:

This is the last change that was pending for the definitive end of the AeroGal brand. The new calls Galapagos has attracted attention, and although it will not be for commercial use, operational management only, It will surely give the pilots and ATC something to talk about.

In the order entered at the end of November 2017, Galapagos Airlines S.A. AeroGal, requests the council to modify its operating permit for the provision of the public air transport service, international, regular, passenger, cargo and mail, combined in order to replace the current name of AeroGal with that of Avianca-Ecuador S.A..

The first request is for the modification of its name in its international operating permit.

This second request is for the modification of its denomination in its domestic operation permit in Ecuador.

This is the only change requested to modify your operating permits, the other terms and conditions remain in force and without any modification.

with this order, the Avianca group takes a new step towards the unification of the brands of all its subsidiaries and puts an almost definitive end to the AeroGal brand that we know to this day and that for 10 years began to disappear little by little.

Not only AeroGal will disappear for good, the rest of the subsidiaries have also started their name change process, leaving these as follows:

Before AeroGal now Avianca-Ecuador S.A.
Before LACSA now Avianca Costa Rica S.A
Before Aviateca now Avianca Guatemala S.A.
Formerly Trans American TACA Peru now Avianca Peru S.A.

Until now, the IATA and ICAO codes of all the mentioned airlines, so it would be the only thing still pending for all these marks to disappear, but this is almost certain not to happen. It should be noted, that in all the flights of these airlines, they are already marketed as AVA or AV, although its operation and as shown in the painting of the planes is by each airline.

This indicative in the painting of the airlines part of the Holding would also disappear within the unification process, although it could also change to Operated by Avianca-Ecuador S.A as an example.

In the commercial registry of Ecuador and other countries, the name change has already been entered, This change can already be found in the Superintendence of Companies and in the RUC of Avianca-Ecuador S.A.. 1790727203001.

History of AeroGal

AeroGal airline was founded in November 1985 by Carlos Serrano Lusetti, initially operating with Curtis C-46 and Douglas C-54 aircraft, later incorporated 2 Dornier D28 aircraft with capacity for 12 passengers in order to regularly operate passengers, cargo and mail within Ecuador and to the Galapagos Islands.

With sustained growth, 10 years after its founding, the airline renews its fleet with 3 Fokker Fairchild F-27, each with capacity for 40 passengers to cover routes from Quito to Cuenca, Lago Agrio and Coca, Later, in a new impulse, it incorporated its first and only Boeing 727-227/Adv, registration HC-CDJ..

The great growth of the airline occurred in the 2002, with the arrival of its first Boeing “pig” 737-200 and a year after, incorporates its second Boeing 737 with capacity for 118 passengers and finally starts flights to Galapagos with 5 weekly flights to Baltra. With the addition of more Boeing 737, the airline quickly positions itself in the market and starts flights to Cuenca again.

For the year 2005, the airline was authorized to start international flights, starting its services to Bogotá and Medellín in Colombia from Quito and later from Guayaquil. By then having already 9 boeing aircraft 737-200 in his fleet.

With the accelerated growth, a Boeing was incorporated 757-200, for your new route to Miami (and Baltra) which also operated with a Boeing 737-300 and for him 2009 incorporates a Boeing 767-300 (this plane and the 2 Boeing 757 that passed through his fleet came from Avianca Colombia, as the first nod between both companies) to fly to New York from Guayaquil.

 

For him 19 November 2010, the president of Aerogal, Sra. Gabriella Sommerfeld, confirmed the complete sale of Aerolíneas Galápagos S.A at the hands of the Avianca-Taca group, who were distributed near the 100% of the share package in a 80% and 20% respectively, there is still a remnant of shares in the hands of its founder Carlos Medardo Serrano Lusetti.

After the merger with VIP EC, began to operate several flights to the Ecuadorian Amazon, Coca and Lago Agrio were operated by the latest generation Airbus A319 aircraft that arrived from the defunct Mexicana de Aviación.

At 2011, Aerolíneas Galápagos became the airline with the largest number of planes in Ecuador, reaching a certain point 14 planes, between Airbus and Boeing, opening flights to Cali and beginning to take frequencies to Bogotá and Lima that were operated at that time by Avianca and Taca.

For the year 2014 the end of the AeroGal era is announced and the transition to the Avianca brand, within a long process of unification and change of migration procedures and standardization of procedures that eventually allowed Avianca-Ecuador to enter Star Alliance.

In the year 2015 the first stage of unification of operations between AeroGal and Avianca ends, incorporating the first aircraft painted with the then, new image and painting of Avianca Colombia.

The first Avianca-Ecuador plane painted with these, their flying colors, April arrived 2015 and it was the Airbus A319 HC-CKN (Data from Diogo Ricardo).

Current fleet Avianca Ecuador

Currently, the airline operates 9 planes, cinco Airbus 320 and 4 Airbus 319

A319-112	HC-CKN
A319-112	HC-CLF
A319-115	HC-CSB
A319-115	HC-CSA

A320-214	HC-CRU
A320-214	HC-CSF
A320-214	HC-CJM
A320-214	HC-CJW
A320-214	HC-CJV

Domestic routes Avianca Ecuador

• Quito
• Guayaquil
• Coca
• Manta
• San Cristobal (Galapagos)
• Baltra (Galapagos)

International routes Avianca Ecuador

• Quito – Bogota
• Quito – Lima
• Guayaquil – Bogota
• Guayaquil – Cali
• Guayaquil – Lima
• Lima – Santa Cruz
• Lima – Peace
• Bogota – Panama
• Bogota – Aruba
• Bogota – Curacao (new route from 2018)
• Bogota – Santa Cruz (new route from 2018)
• Quito and / or Guayaquil – Buenos Aires (In route request stage before authorities)
• Seasonal charter flights to the Caribbean and Panama.

AeroGal will only remain a memory and it remains to be seen if it will remain in the radius called for Avianca-Ecuador S.A flights. or if in the long run, will also be deleted and changed.

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