Tame's problems on the Quito route – New York

We will do análysis of the Tame problems on the road Quito – New York, that are owed among others, to unscheduled maintenance of your aircraftón Airbus A330.

The Airbus A330 with matríHC-COH cylinder, núMSN serial grouper 348, arrivedó to aerolíflag of Ecuador the 9 July 2013, at that time with the aim of starting the route from the Guayaquil airport towards New York (since it arrivedó to Ecuador this route changedó 2 times between Quito and Guayaquil=.

With 18 añat your service from your initial flight (his first and úonly previous operator was Emirates), has generated in meáIt's an opportunity several problems for the airlineístate line, what is the más important of Ecuador. It should be noted that age is not a real factor in these problems..

have been accounted for at least, 10 suspensions in úonly regular route that the plane operatesón más big tame. These cancellations have been due to meteorological problems.ólogics that normally occur at John F. International Airport. Kennedy how are blizzards, hurricanes and others, which don't have attributionón to the airínea.

But othersí, How have the already known unscheduled maintenance been?.

¿Whaté It is unscheduled maintenance?

Like anyone who leaves their house and runs out of battery.íor a tire goes down, the planes are notán exempt from similar situations, but in a much more environmentás complex.

Tame, like all aerosolsídenies, complies with violas isámaintenance standards, where every certain hours or cycles imposed in the manufacturer's manual, the grandfatherón must be subjected to several revisions and material changes.

These are scheduled maintenance, but any díto the thousands of components, pieces, parts, engines, screens, systems, etc. can fail without warning, per más rigorous daily maintenance to be performed.

Sayún the type of unscheduled maintenance, this can be resolved in questionón of minutes, hours or up to días, If, for example, this failure requires a new spare part that is notá available in país and must be transported from abroad, with the respective times and costs.

There are simple failures like changing a tire, but other complexes like changing an entire engine, that cannot be done at any airport and requires a specialized workshop, all these are díace of affectationón to operations.

All Aerolsíplants suffer from hundreds of unscheduled maintenance a dayía, but Tame is más sensitive to these problems by having only one aircraftón for this route. Many times, users do not even know about these situations, given that for example, large aerosolíNeas have an airplaneóNo backup ready for these situations, generating low impactón to the user.

Alternatives

as we indicate, Tame has only one avión of this model, so you don't have an immediate backup when problems occur, at least not to the dífrom today.

Every time the A330 HC-COH remains AOG – Aircraft On Ground, for whatever reasons, those affected are obviously the hundreds of users.

Assuming that the avión on every flight isá a su mámaximum capacity they are 278 passengers in two classes, We are talking about that for every dayíWhy is the route between Quito and New York canceled?, 556 passengers are affected.

At the beginning of the month of September 2018, another of these unscheduled maintenance occurred, this cancellationón hardó 6 días, más de 2.800 affected passengers, who have very few options to be able to complete their flight and the airlineínea tenderá to protect and compensate each of them.

The alternatives that can beíto handle are the following, but contrasted to the reality of Tame:

• Ship Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft: This strategy was carried outó Tame on some occasions between 2015 and 2016 when you haveía 17 planes in your fleet. on those occasions 2 airplanes of these modelsístill have to cover the route daily, with high costs, that were increased by the additional scale due to autonomyíto aircraft. Al dífrom today, Tame doesn't have the slack in his fleet like he hasíback then, so it is not an optionón today with 10 active aircraft.
• Send passengers on other airlinesídenies: the option soundsón más práctic, but being something unscheduled, finding seats for so many passengers is practically impossible. Además, flights to úlast minute are máIt's expensive, what to representíthe higher the expense for the airlineínea. other factor, if they were able to find some places, series for the benefit of few, generating claim in affected passengers, better for everyone to stay on land than for a few to travel.
• Temporarily lease another aircraftón: in papers, to beíto one of the best options, but find an avión of the same characterístatic and immediately available is very difficultícil. other factor, is that many times, scheduled maintenance does not last longerás that a by of días and paying for a short lease is too high an expense.
• Have another avión backup twin: this is the best without a doubt, but this birdón cannot stand on the ground, since airplanes must produce to be able to pay their operating costs. An algaeún moment, Tame tendrá than leasing a second Airbus A330 and not only as a plan B for contingencies on this route, but as a new income to put it to fly to profitable destinations, how caníto be a destination in Europe, but this will not happená until Tame carries out the case studies for an operationón transatláancient.
• Expect: usually, the best optionón is waiting for unscheduled maintenance to be completed, since the other alternatives are complex.

As you can see, the outlook is complex for Tame on this route when there are inconveniences, None of the options is immediate and in the majorityíto unscheduled maintenance you have had, the best optionón is waiting, since generally, they are short.

These events can happen at any time and on any air.ínea.

¿Follow, continueá in the fleet the HC-COH?

Time agoás, Ignacio Vallejo indicatedó in this interview https://www.nlarenas.com/2018/02/entrevista-planes-tame-volver-despegar/, what to analyzeá la renovationóno or no of the contract for this aircraft.

In that same interview it was learned that the leasing or rental of this Airbus A330 will endía is añO, but reviewing the access documents púair warínea, His contract ends in July 2019, missing theún 9 months.

The monthly rental of the HC-COH has a cost of $395.000, más maintenance and other expenses.

Spaghettién, in the same interview, metó the to intendóTame n to incorporate another aircraftómodel no. 330, what to serveías much as backup, as to open a new long-haul route, what couldíto be somethingún destination to be confirmed in Europe.

for himñO 2019 spaghettién the contract for the Airbus 320HC-CID aircraft ends, HC-COE, HC-CPB y Embraer 190 HC-COY, of which only the Embraer 190 to beíhas renewed the contract and the Airbus 320 returnían a sus dueños, implying the incorporate usón of airplanes más new to the Tame fleet during the próximo añO.

This highly demanded route, definitely, requires a plan B, Surely Tame has studied it and plans to execute it in the medium term for the benefit of its national and international image.