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Transport
COPA Airlines
Eduardo Aguilar
El Salvador General Manager
Edificio World Trade Center, Torre 1,
Nivel 107, San Salvador
Tel: (+503) 2209 2600
Fax: (+503) 2209 2606
www.copaair.com
Activity: airline
Date of creation: 1947
Copa Airlines was founded in 1947 as the
Panamanian Aviation Company. Currently it has 3
daily flights to El Salvador, two of them are direct
from Panama.
AEROMAN
Engineer Ernesto Ruiz
Chief Executive Officer
El Salvador International Airport
Tel: (+503) 2312 4081
Fax: (+503) 2366 8810
ernesto.ruiz@aeroman.com.sv
www.aeroman.com.sv
Activity: Provides Airframe Heavy Maintenance
Services to North American Airlines Companies
Date of creation: 1982
Annual revenue: 60 million U.S. Dollars
Employees: 1600
AEROMAN was founded in 1983 to support TACA
Airlines maintenance and engineering requirements
as well as to provide third party services to other
airlines. In 2006, as part of a strategic growth
initiative, 80% of AEROMAN was sold to Air Canada
Technical Services (ACTS) which later became
known as the AVEOS GROUP. AEROMAN, as part
of AVEOS GROUP, has been providing Airframe
Heavy Maintenance Services for over 26 years.
AEROMAN is a certified FAA maintenance repair
and overhaul facility providing airframe heavy
Maintenance services to Airbus and Boeing narrow
body aircraft. Located at El Salvador International
Airport, the facility is staffed with over 1600 people
comprised of aviation technicians, engineers support
departments and administration. The state-of-the-
art facilities comprises approximately 294,500
square feet of hanger, back-shop, administration
and storage space and can fully enclose 7 narrow
body aircraft simultaneously. The AEROMAN team
performs over 200 narrow body heavy maintenance
visits annually to North America and Latin American
customers such as US Airways, JetBlue, TACA,
Volaris and Frontier Airlines.
The strength of AEROMAN is in the skill of its people
and the maturity of the processes of organization
and procedures gained through 26 years of
providing services to some of the most demanding
airlines in the industry. AEROMAN is dedicated
to continuous improvement in terms of mechanic
skill level, processes, procedures and technology.
AEROMAN promotes continuous learning through
its Basic Mechanic Course (18 months duration),
advance system training and customer’s specific
training. In addition, AEROMAN has a partnership
with Don Bosco University to provide aeronautical
maintenance technicians.
El Salvador is located within 2 hours flying time from
the United States, providing a relevant cost-benefit
in terms of ferry flight and logistic material. Moreover,
El Salvador International Airport is a designated
Economic Free Trade Zone allowing all services and
materials needed by AEROMAN to be tax and tariffs
exempt.
AEROMAN is one of the most extensively audited
facilities in the world and holds ARSA, FAA 145,
EASA and ISO 9001:2000 certifications. These
combined with customers and continuous internal
audits validate the fact that the quality of AEROMAN
services is among the highest in the industry.
AEROMAN has been widely recognized for its
excellence in numerous engineering and business
magazines. This fact supports that the company
is solely focused on outstanding and world-class
quality services for its customers. Throughout its
time, AEROMAN has gained a respected position in
the industry by strengthening core skills that have
attracted desirable clients.
“El Salvador’s best value is the Salvadorans. They
are hardworking, creative and committed, which is
an enormous help to any foreign investor to have
a successful business. Moreover, El Salvador has
laws and incentives making the difference when
comparing it to neighboring countries.”
Ernesto Ruiz, Chief Executive Officer