In this opinion spaceóWe will talk about Tame EP, that I deservedó a different future and between its process of liquidación announced by the Government of Ecuador, what will I putá up to cases 58 añthose of history. Photo by Luis Alberto Rodríguez.
There is no turning backás ¿o sí?, Tame EP ya dejó to fly, and his history It ends after being born administered by the Force AéEcuadorian area with the aim of connecting all corners of the worldís.
As frequent readers know, in this space we do not talk about políethics, but like i always said:
The políethics and aviationón They are not a good mix.
Since the announcement of 19 of last May and Executive Decree 1061 which dictates extinctionón de Tame EP, There have been thousands of reactions to this measure, some people have said ¡al fin!, ¡it was time!, ¡we stop losing money!, adios corrupción and others más, and this isá well since the opinionón is free and we can all express ourselves as we see fit.
¿Becauseé I say that Tame shouldó have a different future?
So good Tame reportó más de $400 million in péaccumulated losses, His project was noble and his objective of connecting Ecuadorians at every cornerón of the país merecíto different treatment, especially, because not all aerosolsíneas manage to fulfill más de 50 añthose of life, not a negligible achievement.
I do not intend to justify the pélosses, let alone guilty, but if I seek to say that Tame should not haveó end up in a situationón así, where he COVID-19 it was not meáIt's the perfect time to end an operation.ón that every díhe came backíunsustainable for meás goodwill and love of his más de 900 workers.
These workers who are now left in complete uncertainty, and I know some of them with great appreciation, are the más affected and remain as the main affected parties of the decisionón to close a aerolíflag line what tryó be an emblem of the countryís how it was Ecuadorian from Aviación at the time, but on the way I lostó the course.
Ecuadorians rememberán to Tame for his Bad times, but alsoén for those happy moments of beginning new routes sunéstatic and international, incorporate usón of new planes or because we saw her sponsoring somethingún team of fútbol or the same Selectionón of Ecuador, facts that surely filled me with prideás of one being part of our identity.
Whatever the reason, this aerosolínew formó part of our culture as Ecuadorians for manyñand we will carry it in our memories forever, Today begins a new era of aviationóecuadorian n, who loses a lot, but it also opensén, possibilities since their destinations will beán covered by the others 3 aerolíEcuadorian neas.
Independent of the well-known problems of the airlineínea and whatever her problems were that led her to this sad end, We must be sure that the future of Tame mustó have been different, debió having been a reference in the regionón, maintain sustained and profitable growth, continue generating jobs and carrying the name of the countryís lo más high and far that it could compete on par with the large groups atéinmates of the regionón.
Finally, I shouldn't have eitheró end overnightñhe, for its history and commitment to the país, makes its debutó having closed its operations through the big door, with somethingún special flyover to the cities where he servedó or a final flight with a beautiful farewell water arch that allows us all to say:
¡So long love me!
That must have been, What I do confirm is that Tame's HC-CGT is located at the Marana Pinal Airpark in Arizona, yesterday he left for a trip 6 hours from Quito, at 7:00 Pm Ecuador time made a layover at the Tucson airport, and to the 11:00Pm, took off for the graveyard of marana,
If the ATRs are supposed to be sold and the Airbuses will be returned to their owners, I am almost sure that this aircraft will be part of the Spirit Airlines fleet, to which he belonged before joining tame, Secondly, the HC-CPB continues in Quito, maybe today I will go to the same destination.
HCCPB of Quito https://fr24.com/HCCPB/252159b4
According to FR24 this plane is going backwards at the Quito airport, Is it an error or is it moving??
They must have been towing it.
As he did not ask the same for the private lines that closed due to bankruptcy as a result of the lack of support from the state and the DAC and did not lose 400 millions
Because when other airlines have gone bankrupt in Ecuador, I didn't have this blog, who is just over 2 years.
Your comment is excellent, and what you state at the end is indeed true, a commercial airline, cannot submit to political fluctuations; something similar happened with Ecuatoriana de Aviación. Company to which I provide my services for 14 years, and the last few years as its Financial Vice President; who are responsible for these bankruptcies are and were the politicians, who without having a minimum knowledge of commercial aviation began to benefit and did not know how to manage as their own; those are the results
Tame EP is created in May of 2011 and starts flying abroad two years later, in June of 2013, which coincided with the change to the new Quito airport in February of the same year. Since that year, the destiny of Tame EP has been compromised by venturing into the international market without being part of an airline alliance., without a connection HUB suitable for the needs of the market, which led him to have a very low profitability compared to the investment made in all routes, which, added to the expenses for the lease of aircraft and their respective operating and maintenance costs, left it totally financially weakened to be able to meet its current and short-term obligations., taking it to its liquidation. I think it is unnecessary to indicate names, since the damage occurred from the beginning of Tame EP due to bad decisions from its board of directors made up of people who obeyed a political project that in no way conformed to how an air transport company should be managed.
Knowing the epilogue of TAME, is similar to what happened with ECUATORIANA DE AVIACIÓN ago 27 years, the intervention of governments and politicians ended them until they were liquidated; a commercial company that has to compete with aviation juggernauts, doesn't work with the government/politics cocktail, where the latter make a killing by turning companies into their political loot, unfortunate for its workers who remain on the street due to the disastrous administrations and for not having alerted in time the plummet of the misnamed flag airline.
As it happened to us with ECUATORIANA DE AVIACIÓN now with TAME, despite the bad service on the flight I took with them, there is no denying that if we are sorry to see the end of more than 50 years of history.
Tame succumbed to several factors…. the management model has expired… It is not a good plan for any airline to serve unprofitable routes… In addition, it seems that the administrative expenses were very high.… on the other hand, the entry of the two great avianca and latam to serve national routes was a lethal blow… it's a real shame… I honestly think that if there was an option for tame to last, it should only be in 4 O 5 routes between quito, guayaquil, cuenca, catamayo and blanket… and reduce to the maximum the expense especially in personnel and operational… the idea would be to stay lowcost style… and although it hurts to have only half of its workers….
Holding for more than 50 years an airline, under non-professional military and civilian administrations have cost the Ecuadorian people much more than the 500 millions that murmur. the tragic accidents , hundreds of lives spilled, that is what is not remembered, because when something dies we only remember the good.
Tame at the time was the cause for commercial aviation not to grow, then when he entered to compete, couldn't stand it.
It's sad that hundreds of people are unemployed, but in one way or another they must do mea culpa for being in many cases accomplices and concealers of their mismanagement.
bad treatment of passengers, to luggage and a long etc.. that do not depend on the headquarters. If there are guilty of all this, they are the governments that did not make the decision to close the company at the time… What could have been in the accident of his new B737 factory plane in Cuenca.
I think a lot of people talk about Tame as if they knew Lan very well and it hurts to see a company close its doors after 57 years, of which their last 9, they were really tremendous, without their expenses being justified against the income in an international operation carried out more out of vanity than out of necessity. Just the increase in aircraft, created a gap that was impossible to overcome due to the poor profitability of its flights against the high costs of keeping them in the air. To make your situation worse, was forced to carry out domestic flights on routes that no one was interested in at the new airports of El Tena and Salinas, Orta ves due to the vanity of a person and the complicity of a few who knew almost nothing or nothing on the matter or who were afraid of contradicting him due to the consequences that this would have brought to them personally and professionally..
I agree with you that you should have had better luck., however, I believe that your crews and your line staff should feel very proud of having given everything for your Airline..
When I hear a plane and look at the sky, I will always remember you.
It's a shame the epilogue of TAME, but you have to remember that since its inception as a military company, The foundation of its economic management is based on subsidies, state guarantees for the acquisition or leasing of equipment, In addition to growing protectionism against private competition, circumstance q in the environment of a small market, It did not allow it to adapt to the changes that came with globalization at the end of the 90's., and it never really got off the ground, besides, of having suffered throughout its history, a series of professional technical errors, that ended with the loss of life of hundreds of people.
And if, then be somehow re-nationalized, but under a central state thought like EP, TAME ended up as a kind of private aviation service, at the service of their political bosses, losing even more direction and without space to adapt to the world of efficiencies, and economies of scale that the world of modern aviation required it..
painful, but this global crisis, I only bare something that somehow had to happen. I wish there was a way to privatize the company, safeguarding a percentage for the state through the FAE, and another for your employees, leaving the operational and administrative part in the hands of aeronautical experts of recognized solvency and experience that could be supported by private capital, stop as someone said, at least get the story back.
The closure of TAME was a necessary evil, mismanaged in recent years. Hire such personnel with no experience for key areas such as Marketing or Human Resources.
I have a close relative who only entered TAME because he had a pretty face and a manager liked him or, for example, the mismanagement they did of Advertising.. In Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile they only had online sales and did not serve the. public having offices with more than 25 employees in those cities and many times I had to make the Quito-Buenos Aires-Quito Route with barely 30 passengers and it was a route that, due to my work, I made some 10 times a year and we always return with a semi-empty plane.
Correct! 7 airships, they just flew 4.. almost 1000 employees ????? An airline can only be successful with an aggressive marketing program and not poor employees and dedication etc.. Management just a chore for fools. settlement is late. Also negligence of Linein Moreno.
I don't want to think lightly, but, TAME should not be liquidated; his name alone represents a lot of value, and, The truth is that it seems to me that there are still no professionals in Ecuador, in Aeronautical Administration and/or specialized in Air Transport Economics; and, the people who have managed Ecuadorian airlines, they would have VERY GOOD WILL, to grow your company, Contribute to the growth and development of Aeronautics, and therefore to Air Transport; but, manage an aviation company, It's not the same as running any business, because it is an industry in which each and every one of its economic factors, They play a very important technical role for their development and growth.. If we analyze why Ecuatoriana de Aviacion, Hour, San, and, now tame, they had to close their doors, we realize, that there are many errors of a professional technical nature, errors that we would have to sit at a round table to analyze each one of them, and so, We could revive if not ALL, at least to the last, que aun se la puede rescatar de su «covid» liquidador, medicine exists, What? putting politics aside, and sowing the AERONAUTICAL TECHNOPROFESSIONALISM.
Be careful with this situation!. Politics and Corruption have penetrated very deeply in our country, proof of this is the lousy administrations that TAME has had in the last 13 years.
His bankruptcy is the result of a poor management of the state, as an all-scientist entity that believes that because it is a state, I knew how to manage an airline, but we see again that in reality he did not know him and he does not know the current government either.
Tame was considered by 21st century politicians as the petty cash and personal transport of their entities, It is for these and many more reasons that it has gone bankrupt..
No investor who considers himself sane is going to want to invest in acquiring a ton of liabilities that according to true experts exceeds the 500 million dollars and as the process progresses, they will continue adding national and foreign creditors.
Let it not surprise us that, In a short time, certain economic groups to which the government owes favors, appear increasing teams (planes) or increasing routes (the ones that Tame leaves) and start making your own August.
Many actions could have been taken to straighten the economy of the company, but this government did not want to take them and this does not mean that the government necessarily had to cover its deficit, but instead he preferred to be soft and permissible with the Aeroregional certification and allow LATAM and Avianca Ecuador, compete in routes considered special for the Flag Airlines, without enjoying any protection, Well or badly, it is the national capital and the patrimony of Ecuadorians that defends itself.
Then, after this conspired and very well planned death, the only thing that remains is to wait a bit of time and we will come across another airline, maybe I will fly on the TAME routes, possibly with a new logo or who knows with the same one and now with new owners born out of nowhere and filling their pockets for this type of political-economic gamble of macabre origin, that will leave more than 1000 families really, because even in that this government could not be honest.
It is a pity… but despite the fact that I am a detractor of Lenin and his henchmen, I think it was the best decision at the right time. 400 millions in losses do not allow us to dream or think about a better future for this airline and less when it has competition from LATAM and Avianca.
The military were lousy administrators during 35 years. Your accumulated losses and the entry of La and Av to the market 10 years ago he was struck by a crush before the final blow that this government gave him.
When Ecuatoriana de Aviación closed, it was the opportune moment for Tame to take flight to the destinations left by Eu, But what did the military do?, they lacked pants and an obvious ignorance and preferred to cede routes to Lan.
Each general president of Tame who entered to sit in the chair entered with their daughters, premiums and acquaintances in different positions, and with this they inflated the airline's workforce, making its administrative and operating cost unsustainable..
These are the results of the terrible work of the military. Thus, shoemaker to his shoe!
It is the fault of the military and not of all the corrupt who administered in the previous government?
An airline that gives the total protection of the State, blocking every competitor that appeared, He went on to compete freely and died trying. This, added to political management with unprofitable routes (Manaos, Caracas), the use of the planes for official government visit charters that are not paid or paid at prices well below the market, corruption by entrusting such a technical business to people who only wanted to take advantage of their position. Maybe the future shouldn't have been like this, but from what was seen there was no other future than this. It was very difficult for TAME to sustain itself in such a globalized market., with such a small operation and scale when the air business is of volume and efficiency. It was a death foretold.
If it is a pity that TAME leaves us despite the administrative errors it suffered, since it began to modernize its fleet suddenly, the theme of the 727 The Fokkers The Embraers 175, oh well, He accompanied us for many years either with good or bad experiences and I highlight his words: not all airlines reach the 50 years.
requiem for TAME
Agree, with you Nicholas. History should not be forgotten. The very sad moment for the people who stay in the air. When it was politicized in an absurd way, the debacle began.
Greetings. Good reading, in any case, as long time Tame business was unsustainable, and the State's decision to liquidate it should have taken place now, the before. The question is: Liquidate it or sell it??, mostly to try to save some jobs. In this point, and you who know how airlines are managed, Is the relation number of planes correct?, routes and flights, with the number of Tame employees? Thanks
Selling it is 99% impossible, there is no businessman who wants to invest $400 more millions in an airline, when you need some $10 million to start one from scratch. The ratio of aircraft to employees is outside of some recommendations that are generally applied in the industry.
It is very sad to see how airlines that at the time were iconic like Ecuatoriana have fallen, Hour, San and now TAME that have been part of our life and since our childhood for many. It is true that every business must be profitable, but in my opinion, once this pandemic situation passes, a contest could be offered to relaunch a new TAME’ with private investment and operate with smaller aircraft at the beginning Beechcraft type, ATR or connecting strategic points as TAME Amazonia had been doing and for which LATAM, AVIANCA, Aeroregional or others that cannot offer. Hopefully the brand can be rescued as Alitalia has done, for example..