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TACA is an airline in Central America based in El Salvador. Originally the name stood for Transportes Aéreos Centroamericanos (English: Central American Air Transport).

Also Taca 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 (English: 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 International Airport in San José, 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 Airlines group.

The airline's logo is five golden macaws, 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 El Salvador International Airport.

TACA's headquarters are in San Salvador, El Salvador. The company is owned by the Kriete family of San Salvador.

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History

TACA was founded in Honduras in 1931 by New Zealander Lowell Yerex. According to [Time Magazine, 31 December 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.

Facts

In the 1973 James Bond film: Live and Let Die, when James Bond (played by actor Roger Moore) and Solitaire (played by actress Jane Seymour) are leaving New Orleans International Airport (today known as Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport) a sign with TACA INTERNATIONAL is shown in the movie.

Destinations

See full article: TACA destinations.

Fleet

Current Fleet

Taca's fleet has surged and ebbed throughout time. Today it is an all-Airbus fleet:

TACA average fleet age is 4.7 years old in june 2006.

Historic Fleet

Taca has operated some of the following types:

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