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LATAM Airlines Group has ordered five A321-200NY(XLR)s from lessor Air Lease Corporation with deliveries tentatively scheduled to start in fall 2025 and continue through 2026. The announcement comes after the South American carrier holding ordered seventeen A321-200Ns during the 2022 Farnborough International Air Show in July.

LATAM did not reveal on which of its AOCs - LATAM Airlines, LATAM Airlines Brasil, LATAM Airlines Colombia, LATAM Airlines Ecuador, or LATAM Airlines Perú - it will allocate the five aircraft. It is its first commitment for any extended-range narrowbody type. The XLR is proving to be a popular platform for carriers from the southern part of South America - in Chile, both SKY Airline (Chile) and JetSMART have units of the type on order. The advertised range of the XLR, which has yet to be certified, would allow carriers to operate non-stop services from hubs such as Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo Guarulhos, Rio de Janeiro International, or Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini to the...

Chile's LATAM Airlines orders 17 A321neo, -XLRs

LATAM Airlines (LA, Santiago de Chile) ordered seventeen A321-200Ns from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) during the 2022 Farnborough International Air Show. In addition, the LATAM Airlines Group carrier also confirmed plans to introduce the A321-200NY(XLR) type into its longhaul network but gave no inkling as to the number of aircraft to be acquired.

As part of its Chapter 11 restructuring, the carrier said it reached an agreement with Airbus for a total of seventy A320neo Family jets, deliveries of which are due through 2028, though this may be revised according to market conditions.

The group has five passenger AOCs in Latin America. Besides that in Chile, it also has LATAM Airlines Brasil, LATAM Airlines Colombia, LATAM Airlines Ecuador, and LATAM Airlines Perú. It has a total of forty-nine A321-200s in its fleet at present with the Chilean AOC operating 18 and the Brazilians operating 31. LATAM Chile currently has five A321neo awaiting delivery, the ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows.

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