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The Ecuadorian airline Tame EP does not stop flying Store, it only adjusts its offer by reducing its capacity due to aircraft availability in its fleet.
Regrettably, The traditional press or the mass media have made an effort to misinform about the situation of the Tame flights to the Catamayo City Airport.
This situation, which is solely and exclusively due to the fact that Tame stops flying its Embraer planes 190 definitively in all its routes within its restructuring process focused on profitability and reduce its operating expenses seeking a profitable operation.
This profitable operation and fleet changes that were already published in this space months ago and that were confirmed in November in interview with the General Manager of the airline, so the information is not new, It already existed and it would happen sooner or later., but the press and sectors politicians they are using it to misinform.
Tame EP does not let Loja fly
Here I want to inform you well and emphasize that the flag airline of Ecuador DOES NOT STOP flying to Loja, just adjust your offer.
Tame's seat offer is reduced as it starts operating the 11 weekly frequencies to Catamayo with planes ATR42-500 instead of a mixed operation with the Embraer 190.
The frequencies are kept, but the seats are reduced from something more than 1.700 weekly seats just over 1.000 seating, the reduction there, but they don't stop flying.
Flight time increases, Yes, but on average 15 minutes depending on wind conditions the route, something that should not affect the user who maintains a service and why compare it with land transport.
options in the market
Finally, It is important to indicate that although Tame reduced its offer, In general, in the Lojano market there is now a greater offer of seats than in the same period of the year. 2018.
This means, that thanks to the income of Aeroregional on this route, additional to Tame seats, there are more than 2.800 seats that did not exist last year.
Aeroregional operates to Catamayo – store with also 11 weekly flights, so now there are more flights and more seats for this important air market in our country.
Now the success of this route for both airlines will be that the market is stimulated again and that when Tame recovers from its well-known situation, operate more flights or bring back larger aircraft.
the important thing, there are options and no one has stopped flying to Loja.
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With all my respect, but the current state of TAME is the product of lousy operational and financial management, the most responsible thing that should be considered is for it to be managed again by the Air Force from which it was born and raised with the sole purpose of providing effective service., flying unprofitable routes linking all regions of our country.
Let's stop being teased as if we were children.
When TAME EP withdraws its ERJ-190 aircraft that have a capacity of 104 passengers and replace it with the ATR42/500 which has a capacity of 42 passengers and that depending on the temperature and wind of Catamayo, should reduce its capacity to approximately 36 O 38 passengers, It is a serious loss of income for TAME, not only on this route, but on all those routes that the ERJ-190 flew. The loss of availability of seat offers will be a reduction of approximately 60%, we must also count that, on many routes that cover the 2 A320 of the current fleet and on its national routes, many times the ATR must replace the A320, either due to fulfilling itineraries or due to lack of availability of planes, with this mathematical relationship means that, with the aircraft that now count as available in TAME, it is not enough to cover the total income necessary to cover its high operating costs, reason for having allowed the excessive entry of personnel from the previous government.
It should also be mentioned that, by allowing the entry of a new airline to compete in this market, regardless of the amount of existing demand, the only thing that was sought is the burial of the already dying TAME.
Now what is expected is the Untimely Layoffs of many workers, as it has already happened with the Embraer Pilots, This means leaving many professional families in many areas of this company without sources of income..
What a way to end a year!!.
They could have saved TAME, there were some ways to do it.
But the government and its inefficient administrators of this company preferred to bury it and in this way bury and make us forget the serious deficit that it drags, caused by his previous and current political mismanagements, who were put by hand and with the directive of two incompetent governments.
Now there is practically no TAME, because it can no longer compete with LAN-ECUADOR. AVIANCA AND UP TO AEROREGIONAL. Their frequencies have been distributed and therefore they do not have equipment to fly to the most productive routes.. The question we should ask is: Who or Who are responsible for this serious loss of the only national capital airline?
Perhaps in due time, They will be able to give a clear account of everything that happened., the responsible person(s), whoever they were, Well, nothing and no one should be above the law..