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[edit] Grupo TACA v TACA

Sounds to me like Grupo TACA is a holding company or a marketing aliance and the member airlines actually operate the flights. This is really confusing with this article as worded since if my assumption is correct we are trying to cover in one article what would be best split into two articles. Vegaswikian 02:06, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• Hard to say. The aircraft tails of some of their aircraft have "Grupo TACA" written on them, and apparently now almost all the aircraft are liveried as "TACA," not the old member names (i.e. Aviateca, Lacsa, etc.). But either way, I think "Grupo TACA" is a better article title than "TACA (airline)." The correct name might be TACA International, but I'm not certain of that. --Nobunaga24 02:57, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Those are the facts that someone needs to research. Since this is an encylopedia, it should be accurate. If the airline needs to be called TACA (airline) for dab purposes, the name should not be a reason to not have the article at that name. Also if one of the member airlines has an article, it probably means that they all should have an article with the group having an article. Think of it as a small Star Alliance. Vegaswikian 04:33, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Actually it looks like Grupo TACA does the international flights and TACA Regional airlines do the domestic routes. From one web site it showed the airlines (albeit without any indication of when this was for) as:

• Honduras – Islena Airlines
• Costa Rica – Sansa Airlines
• Panama – Aeroperlas
• Guatamala - Inter
• Nicaraqua - La Costena

From the article page this shows as:

• TACA (El Salvador)
• Aviateca (Guatemala)
• Lacsa (Costa Rica)
• Aeronica (Nicaragua)
• TACA de Honduras (Honduras)

Not sure which is correct. Vegaswikian 04:45, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

That's what I seem to find too. If I'm not mistaken, Grupo TACA is now the blanket name for all the airlines. I have seen Grupo TACA, TACA Regional, TACA International, plain ol' TACA, Cargo TACA. As virtually all the airlines (not the regionals) now fly under TACA livery and callsigns and ICAO (someone correct me if I'm wrong), I think it's probably more than just an alliance like Star Alliance. I'm wondering if the national names are kept more for national pride than anything else. I think Lacsa is the only one still using its own ICAO/callsign, etc.Skyscanner, Airtimes, JetPhotos.net use TACA International Airlines. But I also found this interesting item [1], which is apparently a complaint by the teamsters asserting that Grupo TACA is one airline, not individual carriers in an alliance. No easy answers on this one probably, but I think "Grupo TACA" or "TACA International Airlines" are probably the best contenders. --Nobunaga24 06:12, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Well we did some digging without a clear answer. So I guess this will wait till someone who knows can explain it and make sure the aricle is correct. Vegaswikian 07:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I am pretty sure Grupo Taca is fine. Taca would refer to the airline prior to the giant takeover. After the take over people say TACA but it should be grupo Taca. Brusegadi 11:50, 27 August 2006 (UTC)