Category Archives: TACA (El Salvador)

Avianca-TACA reports net income of $109 million in 2011

Avianca (Colombia) (Bogota) and TACA Airlines (Grupo TACA) (San Salvador) (AviancaTaca) reported a combined net income of $109 million in 2011, an increase of 229.7 percent.

Read the full report (in Spanish): CLICK HERE

In October 2009 it was announced that Avianca and TACA would merge their assets in a strategic alliance. Each airline in the group will maintain their own trademark and operations.

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Avianca (Colombia) Slide Show: CLICK HERE

Avianca (Brazil) Slide Show: CLICK HERE

TACA Slide Show: CLICK HERE

Bottom Copyright Photo: Bruce Drum.

Sky Airline has signed a code share agreement with TACA

Sky Airline (Santiago) has signed a new code share agreement with TACA (San Salvador). The Chilean airline is also expected to sign another code share agreement with Avianca (Colombia) (Bogota) next year.

Read the full report from Travel Agent Central: CLICK HERE

Sky Airline Slide Show: CLICK HERE

Copyright Photo: Alvaro Romero.

Cubana ends its relationship with TACA, starts flying its own aircraft to Canada

Cubana de Aviacion (Havana) has started operating its own aircraft on routes to Canada after it ended its wet lease Airbus A320 agreement with TACA.

Copyright Photo: Gilbert Hechema.

AviancaTaca signs MOU for 51 A320 Family aircraft including 33 A320neos

AviancaTaca (Bogota and San Salvador) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Airbus to acquire 51 A320 Family aircraft including 33 A320neos.

Copyright Photo: Bruce Drum. Please click on the photo for the full story.

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TACA Peru adds the Embraer ERJ 190 on the Lima-Santiago route

TACA Peru (Lima) added the Embraer ERJ 190-100 on the Lima-Santiago route effective on December 15.

Copyright Photo: Alvaro Romero. Please click on the photo for additional details.

Grupo TACA to fly Miami-Lima starting on December 1

TACA (Grupo TACA) (San Salvador) will launch the daily Miami-Lima route on December 1.

Copyright Photo: Bruce Drum. Please click on the photo for further background information.

Avianca-TACA and Copa Airlines to join the Star Alliance

Avianca (Bogota, TACA (San Salvador) and Copa Airlines (Panama City) have been accepted to join the Star Alliance.

Copyright Photo: Brian McDonough. Please click on the photo for additional details about joining the alliance.

OceanAir to become Avianca in Brazil, AeroGal to retain its name

Avianca’s (Bogota) CEO German Efromovich gave an interview in Spanish to the Colombian newspaper La Republica. In the interview the CEO talked about the Avianca-TACA merger and what would happen to subsidiaries OceanAir and AeroGal. OceanAir will assume the Avianca brand in Brazil while AeroGal will retain its own brand in Ecuador.

Spanish version of the interview:

http://www.portafolio.com.co/empresassectores/empresas/home/avianca-decide-si-entrara-a-sky-team-o-a-star-alliance-entrevista-a-german-efromovich-_7448289-3

Avianca and TACA create a new joint venture

Avianca (Bogota) and TACA (Grupo TACA) (San Salvador) have closed their new shareholders agreement. After completing the required regulatory and antitrust approvals to create the new joint venture, announced in October 2009, Synergy Aerospace Corp., majority shareholder of Avianca, and Kingsland Holding Limited, owner of Grupo TACA, announced they have closed their agreement to officially start its strategic integration.

This agreement allows the shareholders to contribute their investments in Avianca and Grupo TACA into a new company which will be named “AVIANCA-TACA Limited” based in the Bahamas, in which Synergy Aerospace Corporation will own 67 percent and Kingsland Holding Limited the other 33 percent.

Grupo TACA includes TACA International, and its share in LACSA, TACA Peru, AVIATECA, SANSA, La Costena, Aeroperlas and Islena Airlines. AVIANCA includes: Avianca, SAM and TAMPA, as well as the purchase option that Grupo Synergy has in AeroGal in Ecuador and OceanAir in Brazil.



US Airways to defer 54 Airbus deliveries

 

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US Airways (Phoenix) will defer the delivery of 54 Airbus aircraft from the 2010-2012 period to 2013 and beyond. The A350 XWB first delivery will be deferred from 2015 to 2017.

 

News link:

www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idCNN2429627720091124?rpc=44

In other news, US Airways and Grupo TACA will begin a new code-share agreement on January 12, 2010.

Press release:

finance.yahoo.com/news/US-Airways-Expands-Central-bw-819666487.html?x=0&.v=1