TAESA
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| IATA GD |
ICAO TEJ |
Callsign Transejecutivos |
| Founded | 1988 | |
| Ceased operations | 2000 | |
| Hubs | Mexico City International Airport | |
| Fleet size | Average les than 30 | |
| Destinations | {{{destinations}}} | |
| Headquarters | Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Key people | Alberto Abed Schekaiban(CEO) | |
TAESA (Transportes Aéreos Ejecutivos, SA) was a discount airline based in Mexico and owned by Alberto Abed Schekaiban. It was established on April 27, 1988 operating executive planes and later on 1989 received their first Boeing 727-100 launching regular service.
Taesa began growing rapidly with 727's later on 1991 received their first 757-200 and became the first commercial Airline in Mexico with this aircraft model, on the same year some 737-300's were added, later on more 757's and a sole 767-300 was added among a bunch of 737's 200/300/400/500 Taesa was at that time the first 737-500 operator in Latin America.
The first half of the 90's Taesa was quite successful flying cargo for DHL and Serpaprosa un their 727-100C's, on this first half some 737's were wet leased to Garuda Indonesia to make intra Asia fligths, parallel they won charter contracts like Apple Vacations, on the domestic Market started among others a fare war with the main carriers AeroMexico and Mexicana.
After the 1995 break down in the Mexican economy, they had given up a lot of the new planes in favor to re using more the 727-100/200, adding DC-9-15's DC-10-30's and later a pair of A300B4's.
Taesa was the first Airline flying to Japan regularly with a 2 flights a week basis 4 months during 1995.
The airline was having regulatory and maintenance issues for quite some time with a constant anti-labor politics, with lead to the accident of Flight 725 resulted in the suspension of its license, hastening the airline's demise. After the accident the airline went through a huge inspection on behalf the Mexican DGAC and was subject to comply certain security issues to resume operations, the airline was declared bankrupt on February 21, 2000.
Some of the staff and assets were taken over[citation needed] and Líneas Aéreas Azteca was established on 9 May 2000 and started operations on 1 June 2001 operating domestic services with Boeing 737 aircraft [1].
[edit] Incidents and accidents
On June 1994 during the United States hosted soccer World Cup a LearJet went down near Washington,D.C. All of the crew and passengers were killed in the accident.
On April 1997 a DC-10 had sustained damage in a landing at Santo Domingo.
The flight covered the Tijuana–Mexico City route with a stop in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico. A McDonnell-Douglas DC-9-31 used to fly this route. On November 9, 1999, flight 725 went down a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan International Airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident, which prompted inquiries regarding the airline's safety and maintenance procedures.[citation needed]
[edit] Fleet
TAESA's Commercial Fleet througt 1989 to February 2000 included the following airplanes:
- 2 Airbus A300 B2/B4
- 2 ATR 42
- 4 Boeing 737-200
- 15 Boeing 737-300
- 2 Boeing 737-400
- 5 Boeing 737-500
- 7 Boeing 757-200
- 1 Boeing 767-300
- 6 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15
- 8 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30
- 3 McDonnell Douglas DC-10
- 3 McDonnell Douglas MD-80
[edit] References
- ^ Flight International 5-11 April 2005
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