Interview: Tame's plans to take off again

under the fieldña #Tame Despega, These are Tame's plans to take off again and recover the ground it has lost in the úlast 2 años or a little más. Today we interview Ignacio Vallejo, Chairman of the Board of Tame EP.

A few ago 3 months and after the presentationón of the new delegate of the Presidency on the Board of Directors of Tame, the former director of Iberia Ignacio Vallejo, Tame EP's short and medium-term plans have gradually begun to be known to move forward from the very mediumáThis crisis that it is going through and that has caused widespread annoyance among users and frequent users of the airlineínea.

Among these plans it has been mentioned: recover fleet to 11 planes (were 17 until the 2016), reduce at least 400 employees in theómina, concentrate on the operationón national unclosed más routes, maintain current international routes, add a new avión ATR possibly versionón ATR-72 for Sun destinationséstatics where the current ATR-42 are too smallños, recover theún $6 millions of dólares what isán stuck in Venezuela, heal the más de $176 millions of dólares in péaccumulated losses in the úlast 4 años and others.

within this framework, We interviewed the Chairman of the Board of Tame during the event Routes Americas 2019, where we ask him about topics of interestés for all of you, readers and alsoén for país in general, on the main aerolíne of the paíyes and aerolíflag line from Ecuador.

The interview

You can see the full interview by following this link. https://youtu.be/p-No7D3VeoM oh weékeeping him goingón (climb the volúmen):

Key points

• The main objective is to get Tame out of his complex situation.ón económica.
• Tame's plan isá layout for the prówe moan 5 años.
• Renew the fleet that currently has an average age of 13 añyou old.
• And nóTame mine has 12 planes, but they fly 5 medium range aircraft and 1 long radius.
• Between mid and lateñor the fleet will beá renewed between 7 and 10 añyou old.
• Tame unifyá its fleet exclusively Airbus and ATR.
• From tenderán míYOU 5 ATR-type aircraft.
• The 3 Embraer 190 current beingán sold for high operating cost.
• The Airbus A330 HC-COH will be analyzedá are under renovationón of leasing or searchá I saw oneón más young.
• The possibility of incorporating a second Airbus A330 is analyzed.
• be unifiedá the Airbus A319 and A320 fleet to a single engine family.
• To maintainán all sun destinationsécurrent aesthetics and international.
• You want to promote destinations like Coca, Sour Lake, Santa Rosa and others.
• Social destinations must alsoén be profitable.
• It will be evaluatedán new routes sunéstatics or enhance the current ones.
• The núgroup of pilots in Tame está complete, for now.
• Embraer pilots passán to fly Airbus and ATR.
• Tame take advantageá the polsíethics of Open skies to enhance your occupationón with c agreementsóI say shared.
• It was analyzedó the low-cost model for Tame, but at the moment it is notá in the company's plans and it will be possibleíto analyze a kind of semi low-cost.
• Tame is going to get out of the current crisis with the support of the Government of Ecuador and the airlineíline must continue to be maintainedégoing on its own.
• It was discardedó tame sale, but the option remainsón to make alliances with other mutually beneficial companies.
• Safety at Tame is fundamental for the airlineínea.

After cáempty

Among Tame's other plans to recover and achieve income are:

• East á in evaluationón current international routes. in some 2 weeks, Tame resumeá your route to Bogotaá with núgroup of frequencies toún to be announced.
• It isá contemplating resuming the route to Buenos Aires that hasíto good performanceño Para Tame, but due to bad commercial strategy I leftó to bear fruit for the airlineínea.
• Spaghettién, with the incorporate usón of a second Airbus A330, It is contemplated to open a long-haul destination, what couldíto be Madrid or another similar, what to beíto the first adventure for Tame towards the European continent.

¿Whoén is Ignacio Vallejo, Chairman of the Tame Board?

Ignacio Vallejo has extensive experience in administration.ón of aerolídenies, 40 años in administrative positions. Of Spanish nationalityñola, He has lived much of his life in Latin America.érich working mainly for Iberia and other airlinesílines of the regionón.

Directly responsible for the President of Ecuador to carry out long-term plans to recover Tame EP since August 2017. Has made restructuring plansón of personnel to have the best young and professional work team.

Since joining Tame, the airínea has achieved the 90% of punctuality and the 99% itinerary fulfillment, of the más of Ecuador and the industry.