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Tame EP informs about the temporary suspension of its flights to Fort Lauderdale as long as you meet the requirement ADS-B OUT from the FAA.
UPDATE 03/04/2020
Tame EP has restarted its operations with its own aircraft from the 4 march 2020 at normal times and frequencies.
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From the past 24 of January of 2020, The Ecuadorian flag carrier Tame temporarily suspends its flights on the Guayaquil route to Fort Lauderdale.
The reason, a delay in the implementation of the new regulation that all aircraft flying in United States airspace must have ADS-B OUT equipment.
¿Qué es el ADS-B OUT?
Before entering the exact reason for the temporary suspension of this route, It is good to know what this system is for and why it is mandatory.
El ADS-B o Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast permite a los air traffic controllers and aircraft receive highly accurate information from other aircraft in a safer manner and allowing more direct routes, generating savings for operators.
From the 1 of January of 2020 having the ADS-B Out system is mandatory by the FAA, United States regulatory body, which allows aircraft to transmit information such as speed, altitude and position to ground stations via GPS more effectively and quickly. In order to function with the FAA requirement, they must operate on frequencies of 1090 MHz and Mode S transponder.
The cost of implementing these equipment (3 total) borders the $200.000 dólares y varía según el tipo de aeronave.
temporary suspension
Due to the fact that the obligation entered into force from the 1 of January of 2020, Tame had to suspend its flights to Fort Lauderdale due to the delay in being able to acquire the necessary equipment for its two Airbus A319 HC-CGT and A320 HC-CPB aircraft..
Due to the high demand of all the airlines that fly to the United States and in that same country, the options to acquire the equipment affected the times of Tame, that despite this maintained its operation, but generating a potential fine by the governing body.
Given the impossibility of acquiring and installing the necessary equipment, We were able to talk with Tame EP and find out that they are waiting for the FAA to grant an extension until the middle of this year so that they can comply or the other scenario that is being handled is to wait to be able to acquire the equipment and be able to install it directly after a special certification or in a specialized center abroad.
While these scenarios come to fruition, the aircraft assigned for the route will continue to operate on domestic routes in Ecuador, in order to keep it operational generating income for the airline.
There is no exact time for which the route will remain suspended, but the airline will keep its passengers informed and attentive to the different actors that must intervene in order to resume flights to Fort Lauderdale on a regular basis..
passenger protection
In this process, Tame will transfer passengers who have purchased their air tickets to Fort Lauderdale, on flights of other companies with whom we mutually collaborate.
Passengers can contact the call center, calling the 1700-500-800 in Ecuador and to 1-800-430-2471 in the United States or to the electronic address [email protected] with continuous attention the 24 hours.
in addition, to resolve your concerns during business hours 08:30 a 17:30 Monday to Friday, the following emails are enabled: [email protected] and for travel agencies [email protected].
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I heard that TAME is chartering an Eastern Airlines plane on the Guayaquil route – Miami. Once landed in Miami, a bus takes passengers to fort lauderdale.
Can someone confirm if this is true and for how long they will be like this?
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So is, from today they charter that plane. There is no date until when the operation will be.
The charter leaves at the same time as the original flight or at different times???
With my family we traveled from 3 al 12 Ultra Air made its inaugural flight in Colombia and thus becomes the ninth regular airline in the country 2020, we were notified on 30 January cancellation, We went after carrying out a procedure by phone relocated in Avianca for the same day, beyond scare , Tame complied with the protection plan, similar situation occurred in the return . All good in Avianca except that my son 15 who has names the same as mine, was selected for anti-drug control at the Bogotá airport where the stopover was made , I still think that with adults in the group it should have been us and not one of the minors.
Being something random, They don't notice if he is underage or of legal age., only the one that appears in the list, as I understand. Thanks for your comment.
Tame is full of people to the finger that is why this poor company is going to leave on Wednesday one of these days there are good people but the bad and leveraged are poorer company
The vacation season on the coast begins right now with thousands of families with tickets purchased in Tame to Miami.
This solution of relocating passengers to other flights will not be enough during the peak holiday season due to lack of space..
They must give a real solution to the problem, there is simply 2 options:
1.- Buy the ADS-B equipment and install it on the only Tame A320 that flies to the USA.
2.- Leasing these flights to another company that has an aircraft with ADS-B equipment, as is the case of the A320 plane of Lan Ecuador.
Additional, There are companies worldwide that are dedicated to leasing their aircraft with crew included for this type of case in which the main airline (TAME) cannot operate for different reasons, as is this case by ADS-B.
These types of companies are known as ACMI and the most recent case in Ecuador was recently when the WAMOS AIR company operated flights from Lan Ecuador to Madrid during 3 months due to lack of equipment.
Simply Lan Ecuador leased the services of WAMOS AIR to operate its flights and thus be able to meet its customers who had already purchased tickets.
With all this, what I want to say to the families that have bought tickets to Miami on TAME is that they do not let TAME see their faces and demand real solutions to the problem that they alone have created by not equipping their plane correctly on time when they were notified. more than a year ago by US civil aviation.
If TAME does not give a solution, I recommend these families report the facts to Ecuadorian civil aviation and make noise in the media so that they give them a quick and real solution to the problem and not play with the money and illusions of thousands of Ecuadorian families who have already bought tickets with TAME to Miami in advance.
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Agree, there has been time for them to comply with the regulation
Total and absolute irresponsibility typical of tame that due to incapacity cannot comply and suspends flights as if it were a game for passengers who have bought their vacation tickets in advance
Those responsible for not having met the requirements should be punished
read to the end. They are telling you that if you are affected, they will send you to another airline. L E E
Well, when you call, they say that they will send you on another airline only IF there is availability. The worst thing is that the week before they were selling tickets at a fairly low promotional price, so there was a lot of demand; They have been aware of this issue for a long time., How is it possible that they continue to sell tickets?, hurting people who take advantage of promotions