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AeroGal Becomes the First Airline in the World to Receive SMART VOYAGER Environmental Certification

Written by thomas · Filed Under Commercial 

August 24, 2008

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During the award ceremony, from left to right: Mauricio Ferro, Smart Voyager Director; Alfonso Aguilar, Undersecretary of Tourism; Gabriela Sommerfeld, President and CEO AeroGal; Guillermo Bernal, Undersecretary of Airports and Transportation and Jose Valdivieso, Director of Conservation and Development. (PRNewsFoto/AeroGal)

QUITO ECUADOR

QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ — AeroGal, the premier airline
flying to the Galapagos Islands, has received the Smart Voyager
environmental certification. Smart Voyager is a program developed in
collaboration with Rainforest Alliance that awards its seal of approval to
operators meeting a set of strict conservation standards for protecting the
environment, wildlife and the well-being of workers and local communities.

At the award ceremony, Gabriela Sommerfeld, AeroGal’s president, said
that this certification is very important for the airline and for the
country. “This is another initiative that AeroGal has undertaken as part of
its commitment to our country and to sustainable tourism.”

During the certification process, many aspects of AeroGal’s operation
and policies were evaluated, including concern for the conservation of the
environment, tourist information about conservation, waste management,
quality control, and the welfare and security of workers, guests and local
communities.

Beyond certification, AeroGal has developed a complete and permanent
plan to reduce and mitigate negative impacts in the environment by
practicing the law of the 3 R’s, (reduce, reuse, recycle) and the treatment
and adequate disposal of waste.

“This certification allows us to perform our environmental duties and
to promote a proactive conservation attitude within our company. It has
also taught us to make sustainability a practical concept that improves the
way the commercial airline affects the environment, within a
environmentally responsible framework,” explains Gonzalo Cisneros, of
AeroGal’s environmental management team.

From now on, our commitment to our customers, associates and to our
country is to maintain and improve the standards. “We are the first airline
in the world to carry this green seal. It is a further guarantee to our
tourist customer who uses our services and who already knows our commitment
to safety and reliability,” said Cisneros.

AeroGal is an Ecuadorian airline serving destinations within
continental Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. It also flies
internationally to Colombia and will soon resume its flights to the United
States.

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