Fort Lauderdale, Florida, December 20th, 2013 – Jetscape today announced the delivery of an Embraer E190 aircraft (MSN 19000372) to TAME (TAME EP Lίnea Aérea del Ecuador), the Quito based state owned flag carrier airline of Ecuador. This was the second of two E190s delivered by Jetscape to TAME. The first (E190 aircraft MSN 19000373) was delivered on a six (6) year operating lease in November 2013 and is now being operated in TAME’s scheduled route network. This second Jetscape E190 was delivered pursuant to an Operation, Sale and Purchase Agreement under which TAME will acquire ownership of the aircraft in 2014.
John Evans, Jetscape’s CEO stated, “We are pleased to have been able to offer resourceful solutions that met TAME’s unique requirements. We have been impressed with TAME’s growth and development into Ecuador’s largest and most important airline since being launched by the Ecuadorian Air Force in 1962, and again since changing its legal status and administration in 2011. We firmly believe in TAME’s organization and prospects for continuing growth and success, and we are proud to welcome them as a new Jetscape customer.”
Prior to the deliveries to TAME, both 2010 model E190’s were leased new by Jetscape to Bahrain’s Gulf Air. Upon redelivery of the aircraft from Gulf Air, the aircraft were placed on short-term operating leases to Denim Air, Netherlands for an onward ACMI leases with Morocco’s Royal Air Maroc.