The Costa Rican domestic airline will begin flights to Managua, Nicaragua, on March 02.
The Director of Operations of Nature Air, Roberto Kopper, told Nicaraguan newspaper, El Nuevo Diario, that the company will use a twin-engine Twin Otter aircraft, with capacity for 19 passengers.
"The airline started operations in 1990, when two Alaska pilots founded Travel Air.
Starting with its name, Nature Air, the Costa Rican airline is an example of skill in the marketing of its strength as an ecological flagship.
Since 2004, the company has been offsetting its carbon emissions by contributing cash to the National Forestry Financing Fund of Costa Rica for the protection of over 200 hectares of native forest on the Osa Peninsula.
Costa Rica is the only country that has committed to make its economy "green" and to neutralize its carbon emissions before 2021.
"If there is a country that can do it, it is Costa Rica. We have been at the forefront in matters regarding climate change for years. A big part of our electrical network comes from renewable sources. And we are in the tropics.
Executives are increasingly using airplanes or helicopters to do business inside the country.
The increase in business outside of the Central Valley has turned domestic flights into an indispensible tool for executives.
Personnel from large national and foreign-owned businesses are increasingly abandoning cars to move around in airplanes or helicopters.
The New York-based Rainforest Alliance awarded Costa Rica airline NatureAir for its efforts to conserve the environment.
NatureAir is the first airline in the world to compensate its carbon emissions totally. With the money it earns from selling carbon credits, it helps conservation of Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula.