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MARTINAIR CARGO (AIR FRANCE KLM)
Santiago Mogollón
General Manager
Av. Amazonas 7548 and Río Topo
Quito
Tel: +593 2 3971 200
Fax: +593 2 3301 044
www.cargo.martinair.com
Area of activity: Cargo Airline
Date of creation: 1958
This airline was founded on May 24th 1958 as
Martin’s Air Charter (MAC), by J. Martin Schröder,
with one aircraft, A de Havilland Dove and five
though they represent only 20% of all the passen-
gers, which is why tourism is central to Air France
KLM’s development. In the near future, they want
to respond to growing demand from Asia (mainly
China) with more flights and new routes. In the
cargo area they are mainly carrying flowers, but
this is what their partner Martinair Holland does.
With Air France, KLM is at the forefront of the
European airline industry offering reliability and a
healthy dose of Dutch pragmatism. 32,000 KLM
employees work to provide innovative products
for its customers with a safe, efficient, service-ori-
ented operation with a proactive focus on sustain-
ability. KLM strives to achieve profitable growth
that contributes to both its own corporate aims
and to economic and social development of the
country.
We have incredible results thanks to our people,
despite overcoming difficulties, now we have a
tremendous growth. I’m proud of them.
Marie Noelle Landazuri
Country Manager Air France KLM
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other employees. In 1963, Mr. Schröder sold
49% of the company to four equal shipping com-
pany shareholders (12.25% each, these eventu-
ally combining as Nedlloyd). KLM would later
purchase 50+% of what Mr. Schröder owned, buy-
ing him out. The name was changed to Martinair
Holland in 1966. A healthy boost came in 1967
when the business opened up to the USA market.
Martinair became fully jet-powered in 1971.
In 1991, the first aircraft with the “Martinair Cargo”
name was introduced, and “Holland” was taken
away from all aircrafts. In 1996, Martinair bought
a 40% stake in Colombian cargo carrier TAMPA
Cargo, based in Medellín, which it later increased
to 58% in 2003. The share in TAMPA was sold in
February 2008 to Avianca, a Colombian company.
In November 2007, Martinair ceased its short haul
operations to concentrate on its cargo activities
and intercontinental flights. In September 2010,
a restructuring was announced: this will involve
dropping all passenger services from November
2011, which will be operated by KLM.
Martinair’s activity is passenger and cargo orien-
tated, but in Ecuador it only has cargo operations
in place. The company is ranked at No. 124 in the
country with a turnover of $65 million USD and a
team of only 11 people, which demonstrates its
efficiency. One important part of the company’s
business is the transportation of flowers to Russia
and Amsterdam for example. Ecuadorian flower
companies have a strong partnership with Marti-
nair. In January 2010, Martinair joined forces with
Air France-KLM with what they expect to further
strengthen their leadership positions in the market
(they already have 50% of all flower shipments to
Europe and 27% of the total freight market in Ec-
uador). The new corporate image of the company
will be presented in 2011.
COPA AIRLINES
Luis Miguel Reyes Garling
Country Manager
Avenida República de El Salvador 361 and Moscú,
Edif. Aseguradora del Sur, ground floor, Quito
Tel: +593 2 227 3082
www.copaair.com
Area of activity: Airline company
Date of creation: 1947
Copa was established in 1947 by a group of
Panamanian investors and Pan American World