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LATAM Airlines Group loses $330 million in the 2Q
LATAM Airlines Group (LAN Airlines and TAM Linhas Aereas) (Santago and Sao Paulo) reported it lost $330 million in the second quarter. The group was created last year with the merger of the two...
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Aerocardal halts scheduled passenger flights in Chile
Aerocardal (Santiago) on October 26 halted regular scheduled passenger operations between Santiago and Vallenar in northern Chile. The last flights were CDA 202 and CDA 203 using the Dornier 328...
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Xtra Airways is operating two Boeing 737-400s for One Airlines of Chile
Xtra Airways (Boise, Idaho) is now operating two of its Boeing 737-400s (N279AD and N42XA) for newcomer One Airlines of Chile. One Airlines (Santiago) began charter operations on October 25 linking...
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PAL Airlines leases an Airbus A330-300 from AirEuropa for the southern summer...
PAL Airlines (Santiago) has leased in from AirEuropa (Palma de Mallorca and Madrid) the pictured Airbus A330 for the southern summer season. The new type entered revenue service on January 11, 2014...
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PAL Airlines of Chile suspends operations
PAL Airlines (Santiago) on May 27 saw its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) suspended because the local DGAC (Chile’s Civil Aviation Directorate) detected the airline did not accomplish technical...
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PAL Airlines gets its AOC back, resumes operations
PAL Airlines (Santiago) has overcome all the issues raised by Chile’s DGAC (Civil Aviation Directorate) during the inspection of its facilities at Santiago’s Arturo Merino Benítez Airport. On June 11...
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LAN Airlines to add back the Boeing 787 on the Santiago-Lima-Los Angeles...
LAN Airlines (Chile) (Santiago) will resume Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner service on the Santiago-Lima-Los Angeles route on October 14. The 787 will replace a Boeing 767-300 on a daily basis per Airline...
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PAL Airlines stops flying mining charters
PAL Airlines (Santiago) has ceased flying mining charters. In early August, sources inside the airline said they will no longer fly domestic charters, becoming a ground services provider and possibly,...
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LAN Airlines to bring the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to lonely Easter Island
LAN Airlines (Santiago) is planning to assign the Boeing 787-8 to the unique Santiago-Easter Island route. The 787 will operate on the remote route starting on October 1, 2015 three days a week per...
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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...
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Chilejet 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...
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LAN 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...
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LAN 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,...
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LAN 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...
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Air 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...
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Air 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...
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JetSMART 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...
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LAW 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...
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American 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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