Colcharter IPS

Colcharter is a Colombian air ambulance company based at El Dorado Airport in Bogotá. It flies medicalised air ambulance missions for patients across Colombia and abroad. It also provides medical escorts for patients on commercial flights. Type: air ambulance operator, part of a group that also includes Ambulancias Aéreas de Colombia.

Services

• Medicalised air ambulance flights, national and international. The company says its aircraft work as intensive care units, with trained flight and health crews.
• Medical escort, national and international. A medical team travels with a stable patient who needs monitoring on a commercial airline flight.

The company says its aim is to bring care to patients in places that are hard to reach or that lack mid and high level health services.

Group and fleet

The website talks about the whole group, called Grupo Colcharter, AAC. It says the group has 14 ambulance aircraft, about 400 flights a month, and more than 30,000 lives saved by the end of 2023. These are the group's own figures. The site says the fleet is varied enough to reach all of Colombia and destinations abroad. It does not list the aircraft types.

Who it is for

Patients who need to move between hospitals, or who need to get to care from remote areas, and patients who must travel with medical support on an airline.

Facts

• Base: El Dorado Airport, Bogotá, Hangar 182
• Group: Grupo Colcharter, AAC, which also runs Ambulancias Aéreas de Colombia
• Type: air ambulance operator and medical escort provider