is an
Airline in
Central America based in
El Salvador . Its original name stood is '''Transportes Aéreos Centroamericanos''', or ''Central American Air Transport''.
Also is a Holding Name that holds five airlines that forms Grupo Taca. Due to its expansion to South America, which meant flying within the three Americas its new slogan name is '''Transportes Aéreos del Continente Americano''' or ''American Continent Air Transport''
The five airlines of the group are:
Lacsa is the only airline of the group that still operate flights on their flight numbers. Their hub is at
Juan Santamaría Int'l Airport in
San Jose, Costa Rica .
TACA
Peru is now an important member of the group. Grupo TACA is also considering opening airlines in
Panama ,
Argentina and
Chile ; these would be named "TACA Panama", "TACA Argentina" and "TACA Chile" respectively; to compete with other large Latin American airline groups, including
Copa Airlines ,
Aerolíneas Argentinas and the
LAN group.
The airline's logo is five golden
Macaw s, representing the five original constituent airlines. Each airline flies similar aircraft in similar livery, but retains its own name on the fuselage.
Today, TACA has scheduled flights to most major airports in the Western Hemisphere. Its three flight hubs or "Centros de Conexiones" are:
TACA owns an aircraft maintenance company called
Aeroman which has it's newly built state of the art facilities consisting of a hangar, shops, and warehouses in Comalapa Iternational Airport.
TACA's headquarters are in
San Salvador ,
El Salvador . The company is owned by the Kriete family of San Salvador.
TACA was founded in Honduras in
1945 ], TACA was once the "world's largest cargo carrier."
A little known fact is that, during the
1940s , TACA also operated an airline named "TACA
Venezuela ".
TACA Int'l took a 49% stake in Nicaraguan airline
Aeronica in 1992.
In 2005, TACA was 25% founder of Mexican airline
Volaris
The mexican group
Molotov in the song titled "Marciano" from their album
Con Todo Respeto makes a reference to TACA.
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Taca's fleet has surged and ebbed throughout time. Today it is an all-
Airbus fleet:
Taca has operated some of the following types:
- Stinson single-engine
- Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket (The Smithsonian keeps a photo of TACA's Bellanca)
- Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor (The Smithsonian keeps one of TACA's actual Fords)
- DC-4
- Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar (The Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society keeps one of TACA's actual Lockheeds)
- Vickers Viscount 768
- BAC One-Eleven
- Boeing 737
- Boeing 767
- Airbus A300
