Transportes Aereos Guatemaltecos

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Transportes Aereos Guatemaltecos, S.A. (TAG)
IATA
-		 ICAO
GUM		 Callsign
Transportes Aereos
Founded 1969
Hubs La Aurora Int'l Airport
Focus cities Mundo Maya Int'l Airport
Fleet size 11
Destinations 2 + charters
Headquarters Guatemala City, Guatemala
Key people José Antonio Gonzales Aparicio
Website: [1]

Transportes Aereos Guatemaltecos (TAG) is a private passenger and cargo airline based at Guatemala La Aurora International Airport. It was founded in 1969 in Guatemala City. In 1972 the airline added a Douglas DC-3 to its fleet, competing with the state-owned Aviateca. Today TAG has around 70 employees and operates an own maintenance facility at La Aurora Int'l Airport. The hangars are located opposite to the main terminal building, on the east side of the airport. Besides regular flights between the capital and Mundo Maya Int'l Airport as well as Copán, Honduras, the airline offers charters, ambulance flights and agricultural flights, both domestic and international. TAG is the first airline in Guatemala to be certified by the ICAO [2]. With the refurbishment of several airports within the country (San José Airport, Quetzaltenango Airport, Puerto Barrios Airport), TAG is expected to offer scheduled flights between these airports in the near future, being Guatemalas largest airline at the moment (2007).

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[edit] Code data

  • Call-sign: Transportes Aereos
  • ICAO: GUM [3]

[edit] Fleet

The TAG fleet includes [4]

[edit] Formerly operated aircraft

[edit] Scheduled destinations

[edit] Charter destinations

All flights operate depending the demand.

[edit] Incidents

  • 2 June 2005: A Let 410, reg. TG-TAG, with 17 passengers on board crashed while returning to Zacapa airport. Shortly after take-off the crew reported technical problems. All occupants survived the accident [10], [11].

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