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Avianca Merges With TACA. Colombian Avianca and Central-American, El Salvador based TACA have finalized their merger agreement to unite as one Latin-American airline company, keeping the two brands. The merger has been approved by antitrust and regulatory bodies.
With Delta having merged with Northwest in 2008, and United and Continental getting together in 2010, DeCross of American hopes âbeing lastâ will enable the new American to absorbs some lessons from the previous two mergers. In other words, a sort of last-mover advantage.