TAMPA Cargo (QT, Medellín José Maria Córdova) has been officially renamed to Avianca Cargo (QT, Medellín José Maria Córdova) following the recent merger of Avianca Colombia (AV, Bogotá), TACA International Airlines (TA, San Salvador Int'l) and subsidiaries, AeroGal (2K, Quito Int'l) and Tampa Cargo into a centralized Avianca brand. Born in 2010 through the integration of Tampa Cargo with Avianca's, TACA's, and Aerogal's respective cargo divisions, the airline operates a diverse fleet of two A330-200(F)s (with three on order), three B767-200(F)s and a B767-300(F) on flights that extend throughout Central and South America and the US and sells the cargo capacity on all carriers of Avianca Holdings.

TAME Ecuador (EQ, Quito Int'l) has been the first carrier to land at Quito Int'l on February 20 on the day the new airport located 20 kilometres east of Ecuador's capital city has been opened replacing the city's old Quito Mariscal Sucre airport that has been closed the previous day. The first TAME flight to Quito originated at Guayaquil operating on the country's busy domestic route where AeroGal (2K, Quito Int'l), LAN Ecuador (XL, Quito Int'l) and TAME offer up to 33 daily services using A320 family aircraft. The new airport's longer runway will also allow long-haul services to be operated non-stop from Quito although both Iberia (IB, Madrid Barajas) and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL, Amsterdam) plan to continue serving Quito and Guayaquil with triangle flights with Guayaquil being the second stop in Ecuador for the time being.

TACA International Airlines (TA, San Salvador Int'l) as well as sister carrier LACSA Costa Rica (LR, San José Juan Santamaría), TACA Perú (T0, Lima) and TAMPA Cargo (QT, Medellín José Maria Córdova) are all expected to be rebranded as Avianca in June according to statements made by Avianca Colombia (AV, Bogotá) Chief Operating Officer Estuardo Ortiz. The rebranding of AeroGal (2K, Quito Int'l) has been postponed until the end of the year or early 2014.

Avianca Colombia (AV, Bogotá) has now also officially confirmed plans previously made public in an application with the US Department of Transportation to rebrand all of its subsidiaries oeprating under the Avianca brand. Exact details are to be unveiled later, but AeroGal (2K, Quito Int'l), Aviateca Guatemala (GU, Guatemala City), LACSA Costa Rica (LR, San José Juan Santamaría), TACA International Airlines (TA, San Salvador Int'l), TACA Perú (T0, Lima) and TAMPA Cargo (QT, Medellín José Maria Córdova) will all start to operate under the Avianca brand and where possible AV IATA code from 2013. The carriers will however all continue to operate as separate entities with own air operator certificates for a variety of reasons including international traffic rights. It is assumed that the TACA Regional carriers La Costeña (Managua), SANSA - Servicios Aéreos Nacionales (RZ, San José Juan Santamaría) and Islena Airlines (WC, La Ceiba) not mentioned in the press release published by Avianca will also start to operate under a new regional brand.

Avianca Colombia (AV, Bogotá) has filed an application with the US Department of Transportation asking for approval to operate all flights operated by TACA carriers from and to the United States under the Avianca brand and AV flight number from early 2013. This confirms previous rumours that Avianca-TACA plans to move to a single brand, Avianca, for all of its Latin American operations either owned by Avianca-TACA or its majority owner Synergy Aerospace. Together, the two holding companies control or partially own AeroGal (2K, Quito Int'l), Avianca Brasil (O6, Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont), Avianca Colombia, Aviateca Guatemala (GU, Guatemala City), Islena Airlines (WC, La Ceiba), La Costeña (Managua), SANSA - Servicios Aéreos Nacionales (RZ, San José Juan Santamaría), TAC Airlines (Dhaka), TACA International Airlines (TA, San Salvador Int'l) and TACA Perú (T0, Lima). According to the application made public by the DOT all flights of these carriers with the exception of Avianca Brasil would operate under AV flight numbers. Each of the carriers is however expected to continue independent operations for a variety of reasons including traffic rights.