Aerolíneas ATA

Aerolíneas ATA is a Chilean air operator based at Santiago airport. Besides executive charter and flights to Robinson Crusoe Island, it flies air ambulance transfers.

Services

The air ambulance service moves patients within Chile and to places across the Americas. The site says it runs 24 hours a day, all year.

• Aeromedical transfers on dedicated aircraft
• Cot to cot transfers coordinated with ground ambulances at both ends
• Medical escort on commercial flights for clinically stable patients

Aircraft and bases

The fleet section lists a Learjet 40 and two Beechcraft King Air 200 aircraft. The site says the aircraft are fitted as intensive care units. Equipment named includes a ventilator, a multiparameter monitor, a defibrillator, infusion pumps and a transport incubator. The operating base is the Santiago FBO.

Coverage area

Flights run inside Chile and to destinations across the Americas.

Facts

• Founded in 1987, according to its site
• Holds DGAC air operator certificate 010, according to its site
• Health Resolution 020959 is also stated on its site
• Base: Santiago FBO, Arturo Merino Benítez Airport

Who it is for

The service suits patients who need an intensive care transfer by air, inside Chile or to another country in the Americas. Families, hospitals and insurers can contact the air ambulance desk. The site says each transfer is planned with the ground ambulance teams at the start and the end of the flight.