Transportes Aéreos Bolivianos (abbreviated TAB, also known as TAB Airlines, TAB Aerocarga or TAB Cargo) is an airline which operates civil cargo flights between Bolivia and the United States.
TAB was set up in 1977 as a sub-division of the Air Transport Management of the Bolivian Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Boliviana, abbreviated FAB) in 1977, originally operating on-demand medium to long-haul heavy cargo flights using a fleet of Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, which were based at El Alto International Airport in La Paz. In 1992, TAB was shut down.
In 1999, the airline was reactivated as a civil company based at Cochabamba, then operating a single military C-130 and a L-382, the civil variant of the preceding. In 1999, TAB moved 84,649 kilograms of cargo, which was increased to over 2 million kilograms in 2000, to 4,176,429 kilograms in 2006.
TAB increased its fleet with the addition of two McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and McDonnell Douglas MD-10. Currently, the airline is transporting more than 8 thousand tons a year.
In 2014, TAB retired all of its DC-8s, its C-130, L-382, DC-10s. It stopped flying most of its MD-10s in 2014, and sold them off to the Bolivian Airforce.
As of 2021, TAB only has one aircraft, an MD-10, which is pictured to the right. This aircraft's flight registration is CP-2791.
As of May 2019, TAB operates scheduled flights to the following destinations:
TAB additionally serves a wide range of charter routes.
The TAB fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of January 2021):
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