TAME (EQ / TAE), Ecuador
Summary TAME is the flag carrier of Ecuador, one of the few survived South American national airlines and one of the largest airlines in Ecuador. TAME is based in Quito and serves regular and charter flights to several international destinations as well as to all domestic airports. The focus city for the company is the largest Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil. TAME is also one of the few airlines which fly to Galapagos Islands. In addition, small fleet of amphibian aircrafts operating as TAME Amazonia connects many remote airstrips in the eastern part of the country with the major cities. Full Name: TAME EP Linea Aerea del Ecuador Hub: Mariscal Sucre International Airport (Quito / UIO) Focus citiy: José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport (Guayaquil / GYE) Subsidiaries: Air Quito History 1962. TAME (Transportes Aéreos Militares Ecuatorianos) was founded as airline under the administration of Ecuador Air Force providing commercial flights, governmental transport services and pilots training. The fleet of the company in the 60th and 70th consisted of Dakota C-47, Douglas DC-3 and DC-6, HS-78 Avro and Lockheed L-188 Electras planes. 1966. Regular international flights to Havana, Panama and Santiago de Chile were introduced. 1969. Inter-continental flights to o Los Angeles, Taipei and Hong Kong were started. In the late 1970th TAME fleet was renewed by purchasing Boeing 727-100 and 727-200. Later in 1980th-1990th 3 Fokker F28 and one 757-200 aircrafts were added to the fleet. 2000-2008. Airlines fleet was renewed by replacing older aircrafts by Airbuses A320 and A319 and Embraer 170/190. 2011. TAME became a state owned company, no longer under Air Force administration. 2011-2013. Three ATR A42-500 and Airbus A330 were purchased. 2018. A subsidiary company, Air Quito, was founded to operate charter flights on acquired Boeing 757. Airline Today Currently TAME is the only independent Ecuadorian carrier and on of the major airlines on the local aviation scene. For several decades the Ecuador market was served by Ecuatoriana de Aviacion (former flag carrier), Saeta, SAN, AeroGal, Icaro and Air Cuenca along with TAME. Ecuatoriana suspended operations in 2005, Satena in 2000 and SAN in 1999. Couple of smaller companies like Icaro Air and Air Cuenca ceased operations in 2011, while AeroGal was merged to Avianca changing the name to Avianca Ecuador in 2014. So state-owned TAME is the only Ecuadorean survivor in a continental market. One of the reasons is that only domestic flights are allowed to Galapagos Islands, one of the busiest domestic destinations. Flights to the Galapagos have a much higher concentration of international tourists than other domestic routes, which allows carriers (TAME, Avianca Ecuador and LATAM Ecuador) to charge much higher fares on flights to Galapagos Islands. TAME is also implementing government social project “Tame Amazonia” developed to connect 68 airstrips from Ecuadorian Amazonian east with the rest of country and world. The project is served by 3 9-seated single-engine turboprop Quest Kodiak acquired in 2013. Current TAME fleet consists of 19 aircrafts (11 active / 8 stored). Logo and Livery TAME's colors are blue, light blue, and gold as a decorative element. The company’s logo, symbolizes the flight of a bird. |
 IATA: EQ ICAO: TAE Callsign: TAME Performance (2017): Passengers: 1 526 348 Passenger-km: 1 582 mln Seat-km available: 2 026 017 Pasenger load factor 75.34% Operations (2017) Aircraft km: 12,656 mln Aircraft Departures: 18 559 Aircraft Hours: 25860 Fleet (Active/Stored): 19 (11/8) Airbus A319 1/3 Airbus A320 2/3 Airbus A330 1/0 ATR 42 3/0 Embraer 190 2/1 Quest Kodiak 100 2/1 Destinations: 29 International Buenos Aires (EZE) Manaus (MAO) São Paulo (GRU) Santiago de Chile (SCL) Bogotá (BOG) Cali (CLO) Havana (HAV) Mexico City (MEX) Panama City (PTY) Lima (LIM) Fort Lauderdale (FLL) New York City (JFK) Caracas (CCS) Domestic Baltra Island (GPS) Coca (OCC) Cuenca (CUE) Esmeraldas (ESM) Guayaquil (GYE) Latacunga (LTX) Loja (LOH) Macas (XMS) Machala (ETR) Manta (MEC) Nueva Loja (LGQ) Quito (UIO) Salinas (SNC) San Cristóbal (SCY) Tena (TNW) Tulcan (TUA) |
 A330-200 (HC-COH), UIO |
 A319 (HC-CMO) stored at UIO |
 Embraer 190LR (HC-CGF), UIO |
 Embraer 190LR (HC-CGF), UIO |
 ATR 42 (HC-CLT), UIO |
 A320 stored at UIO |
 TAME Amazonia Quest Kodiak 100 (HC-CPG) at Shell Mera (PTZ) airport © Nicolas Larenas |
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