Transportes Aéreos Guatemaltecos (TAG) is a private passenger and cargo airline with its headquarters in Zone 13 of Guatemala City, and with its main hub at La Aurora International Airport. It was founded in 1969 in Guatemala City. In 1972 the airline added a Douglas DC-3 to its fleet, competing with the state-owned Aviateca.
Today TAG has around 70 employees and operates an own maintenance facility at La Aurora International Airport. The hangars are located opposite to the main terminal building, on the east side of the airport. Besides regular flights between the capital and Mundo Maya International Airport of Flores, the airline offers charters, ambulance flights and agricultural flights, both domestic and international, e.g. to Copán, Honduras.
TAG is the first airline in Guatemala to be certified by the ICAO.
Regular destinations
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Flores, Guatemala
Puerto Barrios, Guatemala
Belize City, Belize
Cancun, Mexico
Roatán, Honduras
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Tapachula, Mexico
Merida Yucatán, Mexico
Charter destinations
Puerto Barrios Airport, Quetzaltenango Airport, Retalhuleu/Xetulul, Zacapa, Chiquimula, Antigua Guatemala (helicopters), Panajachel (helicopters) Copán, Roatán, Utila, Belize and other Central American destinations Cancún, Chetumal, Mexico City, Acapulco San Salvador-Ilopango (SSS), El Salvador
All charter flights operate depending on demand.
Fleet
As of July 2022, the TAG fleet includes the following aircraft:
Historical fleet
1 BAe Jetstream 31 TG-TAK
3 Let L-410 TG-TAG, TG-TAY, TG-TAJ
1 Embraer 110 TG-TAN, TG-TAY, TG-TAM, TG-TAG
2 Piper PA-34 TG-TAA, TG-TAH
1 Beechcraft BE-300
Incidents
2 June 2005: A Let 410, reg. TG-TAG, with 17 passengers on board crashed while returning to Zacapa airport. Shortly after take-off the crew reported technical problems. All occupants survived the accident. 14 February 2008: A Bell 206, reg. TG-TAB, with 4 passengers on board crashed near Rio Dulce while on-route to Puerto Barrios. The pilot, Carlos Maldonado managed to make an emergency landing. All four occupants were injured.