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According to information available in the GDS ticket sales system of your website, Tame EP suspends flights to Caracas Venezuela from 16 October, being the last flight on Sunday 15 October 2017.
Update 03/02/2018:
Hoy 3 from January 2018 Tame made its last flight to Caracas via Bogotá.
Tame leaves Venezuela after flying 7 years to the capital of said country where he flew with 2 weekly flights after accumulating million-dollar debts from the Venezuelan Government.
It remains to be seen whether Tame will maintain the Quito to Bogotá route or not..
Update 26/01/2018:
Venezuelan media have reported today that Tame is once again planning to suspend the route from 6 Ultra Air made its inaugural flight in Colombia and thus becomes the ninth regular airline in the country 2018 since the Government of Venezuela would maintain a debt with the Ecuadorian state company greater than the $5 millions of dollars. Equally, It was indicated that the Foreign Ministry of both countries is working to find a solution and thus avoid the suspension that has been heard since September. 2017.
Today Tame operates with solamunica 2 flights per week from Quito to Caracas via Bogotá.
Update 06/10/17:
After having stopped selling tickets on the Quito route – Bogota – Caracas, Tame has resumed sales to this destination with 6 weekly frequencies from Wednesday to Monday.
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Although there is still no official statement from the airline, It could also be confirmed with sources within it., that the route to Caracas is suspended until further notice, despite the fact that this route represented one of the most profitable for Tame, at least until 2014.
As we see in the picture, the Quito Bogotá Caracas route, became the most profitable of all Tame routes to the 2014, when he left the airline more than $9 millions of dollars, the 2015 That profitability went down and left a small loss of -0,1 millions.
Tame inaugurated the route to Caracas, after first starting flights to Bogotá on 9 July 2012, where I initially flew from Monday to Sunday with Airbus planes 319 – 320. Subsequently, The triangulation was completed with the extension of the route to Caracas, which was from the beginning the plan for these two destinations, ensuring taking and dropping off passengers at each stop, flights to Maiquetia were inaugurated on 11 September of the same year. With the closure of Caracas, Tame remains firm in its resource optimization plans reducing international routes that do not generate profitability and add to the closures of Panama, Quito Fort Lauderdale, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Havana.
After 5 years of operations, The route to Caracas reaches an end that could be considered imminent, especially for the few airlines that still serve Venezuela and who have endured the difficult task of repatriating the currencies to their respective countries, even at a different change, increasing losses. In the case of Tame, as is public knowledge, The Venezuelan Government debt reached a peak of more than 43 millions, which strongly affected Tame's balances at the time and which gradually recovered, Some payments would have been made in money and others in exchange for fuel or non-payment for airport services., the exact values have not been known exactly.
We must remember that this route to Tame has gone through ups and downs. On Wednesday 22 of January of 2014 and by 2 days, Tame suspended its flights to Caracas as a measure of pressure to be able to recover those millions that the Government of Venezuela had pending payment since April 2013, on Friday 24 of that same month and year, flights resumed.
Too, the demand for the route has been varying, which forced Tame in a few months to reduce up to 5 weekly flights and to operate on Embraer aircraft 190 with capacity for 104 and 99 passengers (plane with which they currently operate the route). This route operates with 6 weekly flights on the Brazilian manufacturer's aircraft.
Airline #Tame increase of 5 a 6 weekly flights route #Quito #Bogota #Caracas and implemented new hours. pic.twitter.com/WjQEVF8tIE
— Nicholas Larenas ✈️ (@n_larenas) September 9, 2016
Route numbers Quito Bogotá Caracas
Both routes showed growth until 2014 according to airline data and which are also supported by the following statistical data from Aerocivil de Colombia:
Comparing January to December 2015 with January to December 2016, Tame presented an increase of 27.10% of passengers in its operation in Colombia, which also includes Cali, but it can serve as an indicator that the operation, at least until last year, she was attractive.
Then, if the numbers for Tame were good, ¿qué pasó este año? We will have to wait for the official statement from the airline to know the details and duration of the suspension, but we can think that the issue of currency repatriation and operational security, as has happened to the rest of the airlines that have left Venezuela, have been the main reasons for the suspension of this route.
Finally, It remains to be seen the future of Tame's Quito Bogotá route, at least until now, that route is still open for sale on dates after 16 October at the same times and plane as always.
Update 08/09/17 14:00:
The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry would not have given the go-ahead for the closure of the route to Caracas.
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