Tame EP Ecuador and its aeronautical future

In this post we will talk about the mostás briefly of Tame EP Ecuador and its future aeroáuseful. Many haveído in the úrecent months especially my tweets informing of cancellationónumber of routes, reductionón of the fleet, potential majority sale of shares and informationóupdated n of the aerolíflag of Ecuador, but ¿cuáHe is her future now that she declared herselfó desert the process of búleft of a stratum partnerégic?

Before getting to this point, I think it is appropriate to talk about the situationóTame's current number, the routes it has closed or reduced and the planes that no longer fly.

Current overview of Tame EP

Tame is the biggest aerolíne of the paíwith en participationón of the market, with on the 52%, themselvesún informationón from toñO 2016 from www.anna.aero, one of the main and más respected portals of análysis of the world's industry. In the más recent market studyéEcuadorian prisoner, the website places Tame with the 34% seats offered on Avianca Ecuador (now as second in the market) with the 24% before 21% and LATAM Airlines Ecuador with the 19% before 18%. These data show a clear reductionóTame capacity n, that its participation has decreasedón of chairs on the market 34% al 30%.

the monthly offer, as seen in the gráfica, has been lowering its capacity month by month since April 2014, until located in the líhalf of the 200 thousand seats per month at present, with a reductionón of the 20% in January of 2017. Followed by this reductionóoffer no., Tame tooén shows a reductionón in its capacity of seats offered internationally, where is the main supplier of the market, having reduced his offer by a 15% in comparisonón with the añO 2015.

Rutas Tame EP

From the 2014, Tame has made a number of adjustments to its routes, where the changes más marked and important have occurred on international routes, where a low occupancyón and therefore zero profitability, has generated that attractive routes in the market have been closed. Nextón the list of closed international routes through Tame in chronological orderógic:

International routes canceled from Tame

• Quito – Panamá, operated 3 times a week at Embraer 170 – Embraer 190.
• Guayaquil – Panamá, operated 4 times a week Embraer 170 – Embraer 190 (1º april 2014).
• Quito – Fort Lauderdale, operated daily flight on Airbus A319 and Airbus A320. Closure coincides with the start of flights on this JetBlue route.
• Quito – Lima – São Paulo, operated 4 times a week on Airbus A319 and Airbus A320.
• Quito – São Paulo, operated 3 times a week on Airbus A319 and Airbus A320.
• Quito – Buenos Aires, operó until 1 daily flight on Airbus A319, trouble lateró a 4 weekly, 3 weekly until it was finally closed.
• Quito – Havana, the closureás recent. arrivedó to operate until 4 times a week on Airbus A319.

The great majoríone of these routes began operationsón since the beginning of 2013 as an expansion planón strong international airlineínea (Panamá operó from the 2010). To these cancellations has not been added what could beíto consider as cancellationón of flights from Guayaquil to New York and Guayaquil to Lima, since these flights have been changed back to Quito since March. Remember that the change of base of the Airbus A330 HC-COH for these flights has already been carried out 3 times, aún without knowing the exact reasons why these changes are madeófrankly, in the más recent change and return of flights between Quito and New York, it was learned that it was dueíto an important cargo contract, strong of the A330.

National ROUTES CANCELED FROM TAME

On the national scene, Tame tooéhas made adjustments to its operationón, always seeking profitability and reducing the subsidy for routes known as social, but they are not profitable and generate important pélosses to the airínea. sun routeséStatics that Tame has closed to date are:

• Quito – Tulceaán, operated until 5 weekly flights on ATR42-500.
• Quito – Macas, operated until 5 weekly flights on ATR42-500.
• Quito – Macas – Again, operated 3 weekly flights in ATR42-500.
• Guayaquil – Esmeraldas, operated 1 daily flight in ATR42-500.
• Latacunga – Coca, operated 5 times a week from Monday to Friday in ATR42-500.
• Guayaquil – Latacunga, operó until 5 times a week, later reduced to 3 flights, after 2 and 1 until closing the route in ATR42-500.
• Guayaquil – Cuenca, operated until 3 daily flights from Monday to Friday and 2 newspapersáSaturdays and Sundays in ATR42-500.

as it becomes clear, The national routes in Ecuador that have been canceled are those that operate with the equipment ATR42-500, which provides the operating conditionsón óoptimal for these low demand destinations, offering to the airlineíresults in lower cost per mile flown and higher return, but faced with a well-known unfavorable outlook for the marketéreo, these routes could not be sustained, especially with the péfaster than the airínea has accumulated since 2014 and that are of knowledge público.

This list does not contemplate the reductionón of frequencies and offer that some destinations have had such as Salinas, Coca, Cuenca, Guayaquil and others.

Current Tame Routes

Don't worryó to cover 15 sun destinationséstics in Ecuador 12 Destinations, these are Quito, Guayaquil, Esmeraldas, Manta, Salinas, saint rose (Machala), Store (Catamayo), Cuenca, Coca, Sour Lake, San CristóBal and Baltra.

Regarding international routes, Tame legó to operate in full growth throughout the regionón a 9 Destinations, operating now 6, which are New York (daily flight), Fort Lauderdale (4 times a week), Caracas (works en triangulationón with Bogotá, now with 6 flights per week, Before they were 5 and at the beginning I fly daily), Bogotaá, Cali (3 weekly flights) and lime (daily flight).

The same study of ANNA, shows the best 12 Tame routes in terms of seats offered weekly one-way, revealing that between them, 3 They are international to New York, Lima y Fort Lauderdale, not necessarily showing that they are the más rentables, but if it allows us to know dónde Tame sets its efforts to increase its revenue and marketing strategies.ón.

Tame Fleet

The fleet has not been left behindás in reductions as expected and lólogical with fewer flights. Spaghettién in my account Twitter have been able to see cómo Tame has reduced its operational fleet of 17 aircraft composed as follows until the middle of the 2016:

• 1 Airbus A330
• 5 Airbus A320
• 4 Airbus A319
• 4 Embraer 190
• 3 ATR4500

for different reasons, Tame fleet reduced to 8 operational aircraft (potentially are 10), some cases due to the end of the leasing contract, maintenance or incident in Cuenca as an example. Tame's current fleet isá composed as follows:

• 1 Airbus A330
• 2 Airbus A320
• 1 Airbus A319
• 2 Embraer 190 (HC-CGG entería próclose to the líflight line after having an incident on the ground with a truckóservice no.).
• 2 ATR4500 (HC-CMB in scheduled maintenance check C in Latacunga).

With the return to flight of the Embraer 190 HC-CGG y ATR42 HC-CMB Tame podríto potentially recover some of the closed routes, although of course, everything dependá del anáprofitability and feasibility analysis, since having a relatively tight fleet and without backup, the putting into flight of these 2 aircraft couldíto make the air easierínea, if the cycles and times coincide, in putting other aircraft on the ground for their respective maintenance scheduled by the manufacturer.

La búsearch for a new partner

Much was saidó from the 2016 that Tame openíto its share package to a new partner. Several times the General Managers on duty announced that the process was advancing and several candidates were considered for the airline.ínea. Rumors of important aerolílines of the world sounded at the time, but you say itén for March it was made púI launch the contest to sell the largestíto Tame shareholding for más of USD 60 millions. This process happenedó for 4 postponements that were known to público, until the 19 may finally, after months of waiting, the contest was declared void as there were no bidders, even though there has beeníhas talked about 2 potential buyersún some portals and rumors, these couldíhaving been a Chinese company, española, American and was even spokenó from Amaszonas Bolivia, although we will not know this due to confidentiality agreement issues.

Once the process is dismissed, tapá wait for the new Government of Ecuador to define its guidelines or objectives that will haveá for Tame in service of the país, be repowering the airínea with p fundsúwars or open a new contest with new bases and regulations for the sale of Tame.

I hope I have not bored you with this long post., but thereía lot of whaté speak. Follow, continueé updating when we have news about our beloved aerolíflag line.