The airline
SATENA
, who once was operating in the city of Barranquilla, back again to serve on the Airport Internaciional Ernesto Cortizos, winning a million-dollar tender to the Company Intercor. in Guajira and vice versa, to transport personnel working in the complex's coal mine in Guajira Cerrejon. The plane used for this negotiation will be the Embraer ERJ 145, made in Brazil with capacity for 50 passengers.
Satena, airline since it was originally assigned to the Colombian Air Force began its first operations on the route by route Bogotá - Leticia and between Leticia - Tarapacá - El Encanto - Puerto Leguizamo. From its inception until now, there have been many services that the airline has provided to Colombia to provide assistance in difficult times the country as was the case of the earthquake of Huila and Cauca on June 6, 1994, when Satena using their Casa C-212 completed search operations, rescue victims, indigenous and rural transport victims as well as the transfer of medicines, food and general aid to the site of the tragedy.
started in 1996 to modernize and change the image of the airline with the arrival of six Dornier DO328 aircraft for 32 passengers. These aircraft represent the new generation of aircraft for regional routes coverage. With capacity for 32 passengers, the aircraft is certainly faster, quieter and efficient in its category. They are turbo prop aircraft with a pressurized cabin, equipped with the latest technology in air navigation: liquid crystal displays, Pratt & Whitney engines and propellers Hartzel, manufactured by the German company Daimler Benz Aerospace. Satena In 2002, joined its fleet of Embraer 145 aircraft with Brazilian production capacity of 50 passengers who arrived to replace the output operation of Fokker F-28, which fulfilled life in the airline.
Satena In 2004 becomes the airline's newest aircraft fleet of modern aviation and Colombia, to incorporate two (2) new Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft Brazilian manufacturing, which allow you to assist their users by offering a service quality, speed, comfort and safety.