Taca Question
 

Why does Taca not service LIR from the US? Seems to me like it would be a profitable route.
Any thoughts on the matter?

LIR Taca Service
 

Not knowing for sure, but I would guess that it has something to do with the FAA class level of LIR not meeting requirements for service into the US as an originating airport.

TACA is based in El Salvador while their sister/daughter airline LACSA is based out of Costa Rica. The routes that fly direct from CR to US are old Lacsa routes and are coded LR vs TA. These routes are valuable and getting new ones is difficult. I believe all of TACA's flights (TA coded) that arrive in the US originate in El Salvador. For example, MGA-MIA, or BZE-IAH, or SAP-MIA are continuations of a flight that originates in El Salvador.

I believe TACA/LACSA has moved some of their ATR's that were replaced with Embraer 190's on some of their short haul Central American (SJO-MGA, SAP-GUA, etc) to cover SJO-LIR in lieu of the Caravans that Taca Regional Sansa was using, so in the furture it may be possible to get to LIR on TACA as a connection through SJO, with out having to walk over to the SANSA terminal.