TAAG Angola Airlines

TAAG Angola Airlines
IATA code :	DT
ICAO code :	DTA
Call sign :	ANGOLA
Founding:	1938 (as DTA - Divisão dos Transportes Aéreos de Angola)
Seat:	Luanda , Angola
Turnstile :	Luanda
Home airport :	Luanda
IATA prefix code :	118
Management:	Joaquim Teixeira da Cunha ( CEO )
Number of employees:	3281
Frequent Flyer Program :	Umbi Umbi Club
Fleet size:	14 (+ 5 orders)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.taag.com

TAAG Angola Airlines , also Linhas Aéreas de Angola , is the national airline of Angola based in Luanda and based on the Quatro de Fevereiro Airport . The logo of the airline shows the stylized head of the giant sable antelope , which only occurs in Angola .

history

Lockheed L-1011-300 TriStar from TAAG

The airline was founded in September 1938 under the name DTA - Divisão dos Transportes Aéreos de Angola by the Portuguese colonial government at the time as a department of transport administration. In 1940 the airline was finally renamed DTA - Transportes Aéreos de Angola , later commonly known as Linhas Aéras de Angola .

When the country became independent on November 11, 1975, the airline got its current name TAAG Transportes Aéros Angolanos or Linhas Aéreas de Angola . TAAG is an acronym for Transportes Aéreos Angolanos . In the late 1970s, the airline bought some Ilyushin Il-62 and Boeing 707 long-haul aircraft . At the beginning of the 1980s, a few Boeing 737s were added to the fleet. At this time, several Fokker F-27s for domestic flights were also integrated into the fleet. The Angolan government focused the airline's activities mainly on domestic flights, which is why the airline mostly used smaller aircraft such as the Boeing 737, but also larger aircraft such as the Boeing 707 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar .

When relations with the USA deteriorated in the 1980s, more aircraft were purchased from Airbus . These have since been resold. TAAG expanded its network internationally and flew to six destinations in South Africa, as well as Lisbon , Paris , Rome and Moscow .

The Angolan government had long had good relations with Cuba . The TAAG was looking for a flight destination in the Caribbean and set its sights on Cuba. For this purpose, the airline acquired a Boeing 747 . When the route was approved, TAAG was the first African airline to fly to Havana . The Boeing 747 that was purchased for this route flew on this route until January 15, 2011.

TAAG was added to the list of operating bans for the airspace of the European Union in July 2007 . Since July 14th, 2009 TAAG has only been allowed to fly to Lisbon, and since March 30th, 2010 again to all airports in European airspace, but only with its Boeing 777 and 737-700 . The lifting of the flight ban for the entire European airspace for some aircraft was confirmed on April 4, 2012. TAAG was finally removed from the list in April 2019.

Since the final lifting of the flight ban in European airspace, TAAG Angola Airlines has been considering adding the destinations Frankfurt am Main and / or Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport to its program again. Maintenance of the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft is carried out by TAP Maintenance & Engineering in Brazil and by Chinese specialists at Ameco Beijing .

TAAG is 100% state-owned, but was converted into a public company in 2018 , and owns Angola Air Charter itself .

Destinations

In addition to national destinations, TAAG also flies to destinations in Africa , Europe , Asia , South America and the Middle East from Luanda .

fleet

Boeing 777-200ER of TAAG

Boeing 737-700 of TAAG

As of March 2020, the TAAG Angola Airlines fleet consists of 13 aircraft with an average age of 10.5 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( First / Business / Eco )
Boeing 737-700	4th		with winglets fitted	120 (- / 12/108)
Boeing 737-700 (QC)	1		can be converted between passenger aircraft and cargo aircraft	120 (- / 12/108)
Boeing 777-200ER	3			235 (14/51/170)
Boeing 777-300ER	5			293 (12/56/225)
Dash 8-400	1	5	First delivery in June 2020
total	14th	5

A complete fleet renewal was approved in January 2019 and should take place from 2020. It should only be Boeing and Bombardier aircraft . This project was put on hold by the government in April 2019.

Incidents

• On November 8, 1983, a Boeing 737-200 with the aircraft registration D2-TBN on TAAG Angola Airlines flight 462 crashed immediately after take-off in Lubango . All 130 inmates were killed.
• On June 28, 2007, a Boeing 737-200 of TAAG with the aircraft registration D2-TBP from Luanda to M'banza Kongo with 78 passengers crashed into a building during an emergency landing in the north of the Angolan city of M'banza Kongo . There were six dead and several seriously injured.
• On December 6, 2010, shortly after take-off from Lisbon , a TAAG Boeing 777-200ER lost parts five by fifteen centimeters in size on the right engine over the city of Almada and had to initiate a safety landing. After this incident and a similar one in Luanda, TAAG temporarily decommissioned four of its long-haul Boeing 777-200ER aircraft. The routes to Beijing, Lisbon and Havana were affected. Inspectors from the engine manufacturer General Electric investigated the incidents. After Lisbon, a 777-200ER will be used again as of March 2011.

See also

• List of airlines
• List of airlines in Angola

Web links

Commons : TAAG Angola Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the German representation of TAAG Angola Airlines
• TAAG Angola Airlines website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ taag.com - The History of TAAG ( Memento from August 29, 2012 on WebCite ) (English) accessed on April 28, 2015
2. ↑ acronymfinder.com - What does TAAG stand for? Transportes Aereos Angolanos accessed June 24, 2011
3. ↑ TAAG angola24horas.com - diz adeus aos B 747 ( Memento from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
4. ↑ macauhub.com.mo - TAAG deleted from the list  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
5. ↑ Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 295/2012 of the Commission of April 3, 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No. 474/2006 on the creation of the Community list of air carriers against which an operating ban has been issued in the Community , accessed on April 4 , 2012 April 2012
6. ↑ TAAG and Heli Malongo removed from EU Air Safety List. ch-aviation , April 18, 2019.
7. ↑ Web presence of TAP Maintenance & Engineering ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ News on ameco.com ( Memento from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
9. ↑ TAAG acquires Dreamliner. AeroTelegraph, October 2, 2018.
10. ↑ taag.com - TAAG Route Map ( Memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English) accessed on September 13, 2015
11. ^ TAAG - Linhas Aereas de Angola Airlines Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 8, 2020 . 
12. ↑ taag.com - TAAG Fleet ( Memento from May 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English) accessed on April 28, 2015
13. ↑ De Havilland Canada delivers first Dash 8-400 to TAAG Angola Airlines. FlightGlobal, June 27, 2020.
14. ↑ Angolan president okays TAAG fleet renewal talks. ch-aviation , January 18, 2019.
15. ↑ Angolan gov't suspends TAAG fleet renewal drive. ch-aviation , April 15, 2019.
16. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
17. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
18. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger - Aircraft parts fall into a residential area, December 7, 2010
19. ↑ dmm.travel - TAAG Boeing 777 loses aircraft parts over Lisbon December 2010 ( Memento from December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 8 ° 48 ′ 55.74 "  S , 13 ° 14 ′ 14.73"  E