It's Sunday again, and so it must be time for some airplane art. This week, sitting in the sun at New York JFK International Airport is a LAN Boeing 767-300ER (part of LATAM) waiting its next journey Three divisions of LATAM operate flights to New York JFK with LATAM Brazil serving São Paul, LATAM Chile serving Lima and Santiago de Chile and LATAM Ecuador serving … [Read more...]
LAN gets in the queue to receive its first 787
Well it seems someone else is going to get a 787 before Air India and United Airlines. LAN Airlines (Part of the LATAM Group) will be the 4th carrier to receive a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, with a delivery date of 30th August. This will also make LAN the South American launch carrier of the 787. The aircraft (Registration CC-BBA) was completed in July and will be … [Read more...]
LATAM passes regulatory hurdles, LAN and TAM Merge
In mergers, LAN Airlines and TAM have finally complete the merger of the two airlines into the LATAM group. The group is estimated to control 40% of the Latin America Passenger market (and probably a fair lump of cargo at the same time), employing more than 51,000 workers open up routes to 150 destinations in 22 countries. Meanwhile the cargo operation will connect 169 … [Read more...]
LATAM merger finally approved
Well here's something that's been on the boil for some time - since 2010 - the merger of Chill's LAN Airlines and Brazil TAM Airlines into the LATAM Entity Brazil's anti-trust authorities have approved the merger, clearing the last major hurdle to the combined airline The combined group - LATAM is valued at a high $14.5bn, and last year carried 45 million passengers and … [Read more...]