• Code: 5C
• Name: Nature Air
• Tel: +506 2299 6016
• Fax: +506 2220 0413
• E-Mail: info@natureair.com
• Foundation: 1990
• Country: Costa Rica
• Web: www.natureair.com

History

Nature Air's back-story starts in 1990, when two Alaska bush pilots founded Travel Air. The original owners had a handful of routes to select tourist destinations in Costa Rica.
Meanwhile, a consulting company called Naturegate was working in Central America on sustainable tourism projects. The Naturegate team worked on tourism projects in beautiful destinations, but without an adequate transportation infrastructure.
In 2000, while working on a project in Costa Rica , the Naturegate team found out that Travel Air was for sale. With over 25 years in tourism development, the Naturegate team and a select group of Costa Rican aviation experts formed Nature Air.
The Costa Rica airline started opening new landing strips and new frontiers in Costa Rica travel. NGO teams, researchers, ecologists, environmentalists, foresters, and adventurers of all sorts were the first to travel Costa Rica on Nature Air.
Then, Nature Air expanded to new vacation spots in Central America. “This opened the way for scuba divers, swimmers, surfers, individuals, newly-weds, and families from around the world to swim with dolphins, make faces at monkeys, see a Scarlet Macaw in flight, witness the flapper dance of Morphis Butterflies, glide down a jungle river through a gauntlet of Egrets, and fly through a complete circle rainbow without ever touching the ground.” (Nature Air)
Since 2004, Nature Air claims to be the first airline to compensate for 100% of its carbon emissions from flight operations. The airline does this in a locally certified compensation program, certified by the government and international third party auditors. Nature Air has chosen to support reforestation and conservation programs to help combat the impacts of deforestation in Costa Rica.