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From the 1 February 2019 Tame cancel route to New York from Quito, destination to which it operates with a daily flight.
Initially, for scheduled maintenance C-check, since February Tame will suspend the route that connects to Quito Mariscal Sucre International Airport with John F. International Airport. Kennedy of New York directly.
It was officially known that during the period of 1 calendar year from 1 February 2019, the airline was authorized to suspend its flights between Quito and New York based on Resolution No.. 05/2018 of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation.
With a daily flight from Monday to Sunday, Tame covers this route since November 2013 when he opened his first destination in USA, but back then I was flying from Guayaquil.
For him 1 march 2017, the state airline moved the flight again to operate from Quito, route that has not been exempt from problems and setbacks. These setbacks generated mainly by weather problems en route or in New York and by unscheduled maintenance, They have turned it into a very particular route.
This is the star route of Tame that operates with its only and largest aircraft in the fleet, an Airbus A330 registration HC-COH, whose lease expires in July 2019 and its renewal has been confirmed that it will not be given.
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Initially it was known that it would be a definitive suspension, but finally, the airline announced that it is only a suspension and could be resumed again later, which, according to statements by the airline's personnel, would leave more than $200.000 dollars in losses, making it clearly unprofitable.
Last year, Tame contracted the services of the Turkish Airlines company for the period of time that this past maintenance took, but given the cost of such an operation, The airline decided commercially and economically to suspend the route and not to renew the lease of the aircraft and not to seek a replacement.
Once the route is suspended 31 from January, days later the plane will travel to Europe, where it will be returned in advance to its owner, so scheduled maintenance will be in charge of the leasor and not Tame, with which he will not return to Ecuador either.
Of the future of this plane and the route, We will continue to expand in future deliveries and as new information becomes available..
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The evidence and details are in the story.
no one can be confused
This country suffers from a lack of memory when corruption prevails and the evidence appears or not but the facts are there
You are young and I admire you for your knowledge and honest criteria.
Unfortunately the story for 50 and more years they say the opposite for that and other reasons international and national airlines disappeared from Ecuador reaching air taxis and even fumigators
History that you did not live nor many of the current generations
I respect your criteria the most, but I can never share these issues because I am part of that story.
No evidence that can be made public, it is better not to mention them out of respect for everyone.
I have not the slightest doubt that DAC will try to impose some airline flight New York but that is the custom for decades
Now we will see with open flights if they ask to achieve it because the traffic does not justify it, not even for the subsidized tame
I hope they achieve it in good time for Quito
No one can impose a route on anyone.
Finally jet blue left to take the route in favor of Ecuador and as you can see it is Guayaquil I don't mind how I take it to the braves and it had to close
It seems to me that eastern was also preparing that same route
Good for users of flights to New York
Quito – New York will come true sooner or later.
Shame on them for having to cancel operations due to failure and foolishness to fly from Quito
The country looks bad in the aeronautical field
It should be promoted that an American airline take the route so that users are not harmed
Sure there are negotiations with other airlines, but it takes time.
Hi Nicolas, if you can later post photos of the departure from the NAIQ and the arrival at JFK and your return, have a nice flight, Of course, there will be a feeling of nostalgia beyond the results that the route leaves.
I'm not on the flight, but there will be photos.
Hi Nicolas,One question, how is the Tame fleet going to look like now and what kind of planes are going to bring new ones to Tame??
The fleet plan has not yet been made public, When I have it, it will be published..
The only purpose of doing it for a year is to prevent someone from asking for the route because it doesn't make sense to say "they say they lose money" that they expect a miracle
Also once again it was verified that the route is Guayaquil NY not from Quito
Trying Madrid is another unreal dream and that route is super served
Even when they don't settle down and act objectively about reality
Not at all, the route can be requested by any airline, the bilateral agreement with the United States is very broad.
I called the whole month of December to buy another ticket and they never told me about the closure of the flight but only told me to call another day because the system was undergoing maintenance. Just this week they told me that the flight I bought for March is canceled for maintenance and they told me that I can request a refund. I did it and they ask me for documents that justify that I am the one who bought the trip and that they are going to take forever 30 a 45 business days to return the statement. I have to travel to Ecuador and I bought the tickets in September. It was a programmed expense but now where do I get the money from until they pay me back and the interest is not going to pay me back either.
I just got notified of this two weeks before my trip to NYC. I wish I had found this blog sooner, drift.
They told you about the return of the money?
Faced with this grave loss, I urge United to reconsider opening the UIO-EWR route. It is certainly necessary
Maybe TAME could do UIO-FLL-JFK-FLL-UIO operations with their A320's? I believe that most passengers are not putting flight time above the cost of airfare..
No fifth freedom rights, it wouldn't be interesting.
What a regret in what the flag airline of my country is finishing second time I see this
We trust that all these measures are for the better..
It also became unprofitable due to the discredit that Tame has gained with its unscheduled maintenance that one day I also had to live, Nowadays many people prefer and I include myself in using foreign airlines for flights to the USA for fear that their flights will be cancelled..
it's a good point, those problems that I detailed in a past post have affected the performance of the route.
It's a real shame, the only Airbus A330-200 in TAME colors that has been operating must go….
Nicholas, What possibilities are there to make the UIO-NYC route profitable?? Perhaps because the occupancy rate was lower than 70% it is understandable but, using a smaller aircraft would improve profitability? And finally, Madrid was not a route that was being studied to open because the Airbus A330 is or would be perfect for transatlantic routes…Many Ecuadorians reside in Spain.
The problem with a small plane and flying from Quito is the autonomy and restrictions that make it unprofitable.
I am a Tame official and the truth is that the closure of this route considerably affects
Regards Marco, definitely, it is something extremely complicated.