Avianca Group

Avianca Group International Limited
Company typePrivate limited Company
IndustryAir transport
FoundedFebruary 2010
FounderErnesto Cortissoz
HeadquartersSt Albans, England, UK
(Registered office)
Bogotá, Colombia
(Corporate headquarters)
Number of locations
Key people
Frederico Pedreira (CEO)
Roberto Kriete (Chairman)
Products
RevenueIncrease US$ 4.3 billion (2012)
Increase US$ 198.6 million (2012)
Number of employees
+19,000
ParentAbra Group
Subsidiaries
Websiteir.avianca.com
Footnotes / references
fleet size: 107 (134, regional and charter)[1]
destinations: 100

Avianca Group International Limited (formerly Avianca Holdings S.A. and AviancaTaca Holding Inc.) is a pan-regional Latin American multinational airline holding company with its registered office in St Albans, England, and its global headquarters in Bogotá, Colombia. It was formed in February 2010 after a merger agreement between Avianca and TACA Airlines, the flag carriers of Colombia and El Salvador respectively, when Avianca and TACA became wholly owned subsidiaries of Avianca Holdings. TACA's shareholders were given 29% and Avianca's shareholders were given 71% of the shares in the new company.[2][3][4]

The company was previously listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Colombia Stock Exchange as Avianca Holdings. Since its inception, the Avianca Group has expanded its portfolio of operations and brands with the acquisition of the Mexican AeroUnion in 2014. The Group also owns the Avianca Express brand and the rewards program LifeMiles.

Operations

The company is the second largest airline holding in Latin America by revenue and fleet size after LATAM Airlines Group based in Santiago, Chile. With a fleet of 173 aircraft and more than 19,000 employees, Avianca serves over 100 destinations in America and Europe, which connect to over 750 destinations worldwide through codeshare agreements with partner airlines. Avianca carried 24.6 million passengers in 2013.[5]

Subsidiaries

Current

Former

Shareholding

Former logo

Shareholding composition of Avianca Holding S.A. as of March 31, 2021:[8]

  • BRW Aviation LLC – 51.53 %
  • Kingsland Holdings Limited – 14.46 %
  • United Airlines – less than 1%
  • Avianca Holdings S.A – 15.64 %
  • Several pension funds plus numerous individual investors, mostly Colombian and others – 17.37%

Corporate affairs

The key trends for the Avianca Group are (as of the financial year ending December 31):[9]

Total
revenue
(US$ m) 		Net profit[a]
(US$ m)[10] 		Number of
employees
(FTE) 		Number of
passengers
(m)[b] 		Passenger
load factor
(%) 		Total
aircraft 		References
2011 3,794 99 17,360 20.4 79.6 [11]
2012 4,269 38 18,071 23.0 79.6 147 [12]
2013 4,609 248 19,153 24.6 80.5 171 [11]
2014 4,703 128 19,961 26.2 79.4 193 [13][14]
2015 4,361 −139 20,485 28.2 79.7 193 [13]
2016 4,138 44.2 20,449 29.4 81.1 191 [15]
2017 4,441 82.0 18,641 30.5 81.7 187 [16]
2018 4,890 1.1 18,338 30.6 83.0 191 [17]
2019 4,621 −894 16,707 30.5 81.7 196 [18]
2020 1,711 −1,094 14,568 7.9 74.1 171 [19]
2021 336 −15.1 150 [20]
2022 4,047 −322 24.6 140 [20][21]
2023 4,771 131 19.000 54.7 82,2% 140

Paradise Papers

On November 5, 2017, the Paradise Papers, a set of confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investment, revealed that the company's former Chairman Germán Efromovich was linked to an offshore conglomerate used for the aero-commercial holding business with ramifications in Bermuda, Panama and Cyprus. Efromovich used a Panamanian offshore that hid more than 20 firms located in tax havens. The conglomerate was used by Avianca Holdings in the purchase of MacAir Jet, now Avianca Argentina, an aircraft company owned by Macri Group, for an amount of US$10 million. Allowing Avianca to make headway in the low-cost carrier business in Argentina. The Argentine government accepted these offshores as a financial guarantee to assign air routes to Avianca which is now being investigated by the Argentine federal justice system.[22]

Bankruptcy

On May 10, 2020, Avianca filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States after failing to pay bondholders, becoming one of the major airlines to file for bankruptcy due to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.[23][24][25]

In November 2020, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved its $2 billion refinancing plan.[26][27]

In November 2021, Avianca Holdings announced they would move their legal address from Panama to the United Kingdom, and that they would change their name to Avianca Group.[28] On December 1, 2021, Avianca emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in its history.[29]

Fleet

As of August 2024, the fleet of the Avianca Group consists of the following aircraft:[30]

Aircraft In
service 		Orders Passengers Notes
C W Y+ Y Total
Airbus A319-100 8 — – 12 48 84 144 To be retired by 2024.[31]
Airbus A320-200 79 — – 12 60 108 180
– – – 188 188 Former Viva Air Colombia aircraft.[32]
Airbus A320neo 45 43[33] – 12 60 108 180
– – – 188 188 Former Viva Air Colombia aircraft.[32]
Boeing 787-8 15 1[34] 28 – – 222 250
20 – – 271 291
32 – – 259 291 Former Norwegian Long Haul aircraft.[35]
Cargo fleet
Airbus A330-200F 6 — Cargo
Airbus A330-200P2F — 2[36]
Airbus A330-300P2F 1 1
Total 154 47

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Net profit/net loss from the period"
  2. ^ "Total passengers carried"

References

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  32. ^ a b Sena, Gastón (2023-06-27). "Avianca Gets All A320neos That Belonged to Failed VIVA". Aviacionline.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-11-12.
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