Peruvian company Talma, from Grupo Sandoval, has acquired Servicios Aéreos Integrados (SAI), a Colombian company owned by Avianca.
SAI operates in the Colombian airports of Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Cartagena, Armenia, Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Montería, Ibagué, Neiva, Pereira and Pasto, in which they mainly provide ground assistance services, passenger service and baggage clearance.
The transaction was made through TSA Investments Inc. S.A., a holding company based in Peru and is Talma’s second acquisition in Colombia as in 2019, they bought LASA, an airport services company based in Medellín.
Arturo Cassinelli, Corporate General Manager of Talma, said: “This acquisition is part of the regional expansion plan that started in 2010 with the entry into the Mexican market and continued with the acquisition of a ramp services company in Ecuador in 2017. Today, the company specialising in airport services and air logistics, operates in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico, becoming the largest airport services company in Latin America.”