LAN Airlines to lease three Boeing 767-300F freighters to FedEx Express
LAN Airlines (Chile) (Santiago) is leasing three Boeing 767-300F freighters to FedEx Express (Memphis) for three years. LAN currently has excess freighter capacity. Copyright Photo: Alvaro...
View ArticleChilejet awaits final approvals to start operations
Chilejet S.A. (Chilejet.com) (Santiago) as we previously reported, is a new airline “established in Chile to serve specific niche markets in the air charter and scheduled markets.” On December 4, 2014...
View ArticleLAN Airlines to retire the last Airbus A340-300
LAN Airlines (Chile) (Santiago) is getting ready to replace its aging Airbus A340-300s (above) with the new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners (below). The venerable A340s are currently assigned to the...
View ArticleLAN Airlines to operate the Boeing 787 on the Santiago-Easter Island-Papeete...
LAN Airlines (Chile) (Santiago) will operate the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner on the weekly Santiago-Easter Island-Papeete (Tahiti) route starting on September 21 per Airline Route. On the financial side,...
View ArticleLAN Airlines retires the Airbus A340-300
LAN Airlines (Chile) (Santiago) on Friday, April 17, 2015, operated its last Airbus A340-300 revenue flights. The planned last official flight, flight LA 800, was operated with the pictured Airbus...
View ArticleAir China to connect the Silicon Valley with Shanghai
Air China’s expansion in North America continues with the launch of its thrice-weekly nonstop service between San Jose, California and Shanghai starting on September 1, 2016. The new flight will be...
View ArticleAir Canada inaugurates the only nonstop flights from Canada to Melbourne,...
Air Canada’s inaugural flight, AC037 Boeing 787 Dreamliner service, departed Vancouver December 1, 2017 in the late evening, and arrived Sunday morning, December 3, 2017 to a water cannon welcome...
View ArticleJetSMART names its fourth Airbus A320 in honor of Alejo Williamson
JetSMART (Santiago, Chile) on December 19 2017 announced Luis Oliva was the winner of the contest held on its social networks, to name the fourth Airbus A320 of JetSMART, CC-AWD. The new airliner is...
View ArticleLAW drops out of the Chilean domestic market, will concentrate on...
LAW-Latin American Wings announced on January 8 2018, that is leaving the domestic routes in Chile on January 10, 2018, to fully concentrate in its foreign routes. LAW flew from Santiago, Chile to...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines opens a new facility at Santiago, Chile
November 9, 2018 was the date when American Airlines officially inaugurated its new facilities in the northwestern area of Arturo Merino Benítez international airport (SCL), despite the fact they were...
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