Tame EP stop flying to Salinas from Quito, route to which I operatedó with 2 weekly frequencies in ATR42-500 aircraft.
The route that I started ago something más de 4 años, exactly the 23 of January of 2014, comes to an end after having been the flight that inauguratedó the new terminal of Ulpiano P Airportáez and the úlast flight operatedó last domingo 28 October.
UPDATEÓN 2/28/2019
the airínea with Resolvión 01-2019, Tame EP was authorized to suspend the Quito route – Salinas for the term of 1 añor to count from 4 march 2019:
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Salinas Airport, located in the Province of Santa Elena, has an extensionón of 1.800 square meters and after an investmentón of $15’924.429,94 millions of dóhomes, the AúA brand new passenger terminal, loses what was his úonly regular commercial flight.
It is worth remembering that this airport also operateséat the Aviation Academyón Cosme Renella of the Force AéEcuadorian area, pilot schools and private flights. Between 2008 operó the missing VIP from Quito.
This route with interesting tourist potentialístic, arrivedó to operate with up to 3 weekly flights onías thursday, friday and sunday, but when the route closedó úonly on sundays.
gradually, the airínea was reducing its flights, moving from two weekly flights on Thursdays and Sundays to one weekly flight.
With some problems due to availability of Tame's ATR aircraft, the route sufferedó some inconveniences that caused passengers to be transferred by land to and from Salinas to connect in Guayaquil to Quito.
Although the aerosolínea has not delivered toún ningún official statement, this suspensionóIt is possibly due to low occupancyón and the need for the aerolíline of reducing pélosses, optimizing its resources in routes of greater profitability.
For now, spaghettiéIt is unknown if this suspensionón is temporary, to beá permanent or passingá operating úOnly during holiday or vacation season in the mountains.
Tame EP opera así a 11 sun destinationsésticos in Ecuador, having come to operate 15 destinations among theños 2012 and 2014.
Current destinations are Quito, Guayaquil, Manta, Esmeraldas, Sour Lake, Coca, Santa Rosa, Store, Cuenca, San Cristóbal and Baltra.
End of another mistaken route that produced heavy losses just to benefit a certain region of our country
Let Irma see the blood of tame
Hopefully the real restructuring plan will start now, outside the regional interests of the authorities and the DAC, the studies of an airline have to be outside of them and live reality
Each region of Ecuador deserves and needs connectivity, but well done, that's another point.
Richard, the truth is that in small airports in Ecuador it is more complicated to generate profitability, I even think that the ATR42-500 is too big to go to Salinas where there is not tourist demand all year round compared to other coastal sites.
Medium and long-haul routes are, of course, the ones that bring the most revenue and benefits, but there are also greater demands., what must be ensured is the minimum percentage of occupation. Last month I saw an Embraer in Bogotá 190 by TAME, because little by little the company wants to grow again before sending aircraft of the A320 family.
The truth is that I don't see a true recovery of Tame on the horizon , With those expensive fares and poor service, competing with Avianca and Lan at the local level is almost impossible., on top of that they still record losses, you must work on connections whether they are your own or with shared code, an example is the trip to New York.