Cabo Verde Airlines

Cabo Verde Airlines
IATA code :	VR
ICAO code :	TCV
Call sign :	CABOVERDE
Founding:	1958
Seat:	Praia , Cape Verde
Home airport :	Amílcar Cabral International Airport
Company form:	SA
IATA prefix code :	696
Frequent Flyer Program :	TACV Club
Fleet size:	3 (+ 1 order)
Aims:	international
Website:	caboverdeairlines.com

Former logo of the TACV

Boeing 757-200 of the TACV

Cabo Verde Airlines , TACV Cabo Verde Airlines until May 2018 , is a Cape Verdean airline based in Praia and based at Amílcar Cabral International Airport on Sal .

history

In 1958 the Portuguese state founded the Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde ( TACV for short ). The company began flight operations from Praia to Sal and São Vicente in 1959 . In 1963 a connection to Lisbon was established in cooperation with TAP Portugal .

After Cape Verde gained independence, the state converted the airline into a public limited company that remained 100 percent state-owned. In 2001 it was decided to privatize the airline . However, this step was only taken in 2006.

The airline discontinued all national connections on August 1, 2017 or handed them over to Binter CV . Together with an international partner, under the name TACV Internacional , only international flights are to be offered in the future.

Ownership

Between August 14, 2017 and August 13, 2018, the airline will be strategically managed by Loftleiðir Icelandic from Iceland , which will receive 925,000 euros for this . In September 2018 it was announced that Icelandair would acquire 51 percent of the shares in Cabo Verde Airlines. 39 percent belong to other investors, 10% to employees. The transfer was completed in March 2019.

Destinations

TACV connected seven of the nine inhabited islands of Cape Verde to one another until the end of July 2017. Sal serves international destinations such as Lisbon, Paris , Rome , Milan , Boston , Washington, DC , Fortaleza , Recife , Salvador , Porto Alegre , Dakar , Lagos and Luanda . (Status: December 2019) For a long time , the only German-speaking destination was Munich , which was initially to be replaced by Frankfurt am Main in summer 2012 , but was finally discontinued in winter 2012.

fleet

ATR 42-500 of the TACV

As of March 2020, the TACV fleet consists of three aircraft with an average age of 24.9 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks
Boeing 757-200	3	1
total	3	1

In the past, ATR 42 , ATR 72 and Boeing 737-300 / 800 aircraft were also operated.

Incidents

The crashed De Havilland Canada DHC-6 ( registration D4-CBC)

TACV has had several incidents in its history, including the following two with fatalities:

• On September 28, 1998, the De Havilland Canada DHC-6 ( registration D4-CBC) had an accident on the way from Preguiça to Praia while landing during a storm. Of the 22 people on the plane, one of Carlos Veiga's bodyguards was killed.
• On August 7, 1999 the Dornier Do 228-201 (registration number D4-CBC) of the coast guard of the Cape Verdean armed forces had an accident en route from São Pedro to Ponta do Sol . The Do 228 was used instead of the TACV's DHC-6, which is otherwise regularly used on this route, because the DHC-6 could not fly on that day due to technical problems. Due to bad weather, the pilot decided to fly back to São Pedro, where the plane flew into a hill . All 18 people on board died in the accident.

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : TACV  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Cabo Verde Airlines website (Portuguese, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TACV changes the name. AeroTelegraph, May 15, 2018.
2. ^ TACV ends domestic Cape Verde operations. ch-aviation, August 2, 2017.
3. ↑ Icelandair denies acquiring 49% stake in TACV. ch-aviation , June 27, 2017.
4. ↑ Icelandair is active in Africa. AeroTelegraph, August 11, 2017.
5. ↑ Cape Verdean gov't picks Icelandair as airline investor. ch-aviation , September 20, 2018.
6. ↑ Loftleider Icelandic acquires 51% of Cabo Verde Airlines. ch-aviation, March 4, 2019.
7. ↑ Route Map caboverdeairlines.com , accessed October 18, 2019
8. ↑ tacv.de - Current information from TACV ( Memento from September 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ TACV Cabo Verde Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 9, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Data on the airline TACV - Cabo Verde Airlines, accessed on May 27, 2016 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
11. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
12. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)