Avianca was founded in 1919 in Colombia. Avianca’s headquarters are currently located in Bogotá and the main base in El Dorado International Airport. Avianca is a star alliance member. The company has 3 stars on Skytrax rating and has won the Skytrax awards Best Airline in South America and Best Economy Class in South America. Hernan Rincon leads the company as the CEO.

Avianca employs more than 19,000 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 173 aircraft. It has declared $ 4,300,000,000 in revenue. Avianca offers service in 114 countries.

Avianca’s fleet consists of Airbus A320 model aircrafts. The average age of the fleet is 5.9 years. The youngest aircrafts are the Boeing 787 at 2.7 years old. They rank 25 among 54 airlines operating this type of aircraft. The most common aircraft in the fleet is the Airbus A320 with 41 of them at hand. They rank 73 among 259 airlines operating this type of aircraft.

Avianca have 1 accident reports to date. The most recent one is in 1983 at Madrid, Spain with Boeing 747 aircraft.