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Avianca in numbers

  • 6000

    weekly flights around the world

  • 189

    aircrafts in our fleet

  • 108

    destinations in 26 countries

  • 7.2

    millions LifeMiles members

Technical sheet

Find out about the relevant data of our fleet, routes, operation centers and business lines. Consult technical  data sheet.

Corporate Profiles

Get to know the profiles of our executives

Ana Maria Rubio

Ana Maria Rubio

Senior Vice President of Human Resources - Ana M. Rubio has been Vice President of Human Resources since July 2015. Prior to her service at Avianca, Rubio was Director of Human Resources at Merck's KGaA for Latin America and was Vice President of Human Resources for Copa Airlines Colombia from 2006 to 2010.

Diana Calixto

Diana Calixto

Senior Vice President of Purchasing - She has been Senior Vice President of Purchasing and Administrative Affairs of Avianca Holdings S.A. since September 2016. Before working at Avianca, she was head of Ecopetrol's Corporate Finance Unit. For almost 12 years she worked for multinational financial institutions in Colombia such as BBVA, Santander and ABN AMRO Bank, where she was in charge of the areas of capital markets, credit and portfolio management.

Eduardo Mendoza

Eduardo Mendoza

Senior Vice President Operations - Mendoza has been Senior Vice President of Operations since May 2018. He served as Director of Security for the President of Colombia, also as Vice Minister of Justice, Senior Advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States and foreign partner in the law firm Dewey Ballantine in New York. Eduardo is also a pilot of the Avianca ATR 72-600 fleet.

Gerardo Grajales López

Gerardo Grajales López

Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) - Joined Baxter Pharmaceutical as Chief Financial Officer in 1995 and also served as the company's marketing director for the Andean countries of Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. In 1998 he entered the electric power industry in Colombia acting as CFO of three energy distribution companies owned by Houston Power and Light in Colombia and then acted as general manager of two thermal plants located near Cartagena, Colombia, operated by AES Corp. He joined Avianca as CFO in May 2002, a position he held until 2010, when he was appointed CFO.

María Paula Duque

María Paula Duque

Senior Vice President of Strategic Relations and Customer Experience - María Paula Duque has held this position since July 2016. Throughout her career she has held key positions in telecommunications and utilities companies in Colombia, such as ETB, Telecom and EPM. Between 2002 and 2005 she was Colombia's Vice Minister of Communications. After her time in government, she joined Microsoft Andean Region as Public Sector Manager and Business Segment Director.

Renato Covelo

Renato Covelo

CEO (e) - Renato Covelo was Senior Legal Vice President until May 2019, and currently holds the position of CEO in charge. Mr. Covelo has worked in several law firms such as the prestigious law firm Machado, Meyer, Sendacz and Opice Advogados in São Paulo, Bohmart & Sacks in New York and Fialdini and Graber in São Paulo. Mr. Covelo has also served in the legal departments of several organizations in Brazil.

Roberto Held

Roberto Held

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - Roberto Held has been Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer since November 2016. Prior to joining the Company, he was Chief Financial Officer of Procafecol S.A. -Juan Valdez - and was Vice President of Cash Management of Citi Bank Colombia for nearly 10 years; he was also Vice President of Equity Capital Markets & Trading Unit in Colombia and Peru, and worked for five years in the Colombian Stock Exchange in different positions.

Santiago Aldana

Santiago Aldana

Senior Vice President of Information Technology - Mr. Aldana has been Senior Vice President of Digital Technology at Avianca since February 2017. He has held the positions of Marketing and Sales Manager of CitiBank, Financial and Administrative Vice President of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce, Advisor to the Presidency of Asocaña, Director of Systems and Loyalty of Telefónica Telecom and President of IQ Outsorcing. He was also founder and president of Uff Movil, the first virtual mobile operator in Latin America.

Gustavo Cadavid

Gustavo Cadavid

Senior Vice President of Service Delivery - Since January 15, he has led the Senior Vice President of Service Delivery. In Avianca Holding S.A. he has served as General Director of Deprisa, strengthening the growth and positioning of the business unit in the logistics market for the transport of documents and parcels. In addition, since joining Avianca in 2002 and for 6 years he worked in the Revenue Management area until reaching the position of Vice President of Revenue Management & Pricing.

Silvia Mosquera Gonzalez

Silvia Mosquera Gonzalez

Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Revenues - Silvia Mosquera has been Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Revenues since November 2016. Prior to joining the Company, Mosquera held the position of Commercial Director of Iberia Express, the Iberia Group's low-cost airline. Previously, she held the position of Director of Strategy, Routes and Revenue Management at Vueling, a position she previously held at Clickair.

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Carolina Cortes

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Sofía Valverde Aguero

Press Central America, North America and the Caribbean Phone number: (506) 2242-1178 sofia.valverde@avianca.com

Viviana Escobar

Press Parent Company viviana.escobar@avianca.com

María Verónica Espíndola Merino

Press Ecuador Phone number: (593) 2 2943100 Ext. 2066 veronica.espindola@avianca.com