11.05.2021 - 08:14 UTC
LATAM Airlines Group has entered into an agreement with Boeing to cancel outstanding orders for four B787-9s and one B777-200F, subject to the approval of the US Bankruptcy Court.
"As a result of the amendments, LATAM will maintain its purchase orders in respect of two B787-9 aircraft, with proposed delivery dates in December 2021. These arrangements contemplate that LATAM will have no further liability with regards to the terminated aircraft orders," the Latin American group said in its quarterly financial report.
The two parties reached the agreement on April 29, 2021, and the court hearing has been planned for May 19.
According to the details revealed in the group's petition to the US Bankruptcy Court, obligatory under its ongoing Chapter 11 proceedings, the four cancelled B787-9s were due for delivery in 2022 and 2023. The order was initially placed in 2007 by LAN Airlines (LA, Santiago de Chile Int'l) and comprised twenty-six B787s, including ten B787-8s and sixteen -9s. All -8s were delivered to the airline between 2012 and 2014,...
13.04.2021 - 02:56 UTC
LATAM Airlines Brasil (JJ, Sao Paulo Congonhas) has announced it will retire all of its eleven A350-900s with immediate effect as it transitions to an all-Boeing widebody fleet.
"This decision, in addition to being a part of our transition to a smaller and more homogeneous fleet, also aims at improving the efficiency of our widebody operations during a period of decreased demand and lower capacity in our international business," Chief Executive Jerome Cadier said in a letter to staff, leaked via social media.
Cadier said the first seven A350-900s left the fleet during the week of April 5, 2021, while the remainder will retire this week.
According to the ch-aviation fleets history module, LATAM Airlines Brasil has operated a total of twelve A350-900s since the delivery of the first unit in December 2015. Two aircraft were retired during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and ferried for storage at Victorville in July and September 2020, respectively. The remaining ten aircraft remain in storage at Sao Paulo Guarulhos...
07.04.2021 - 07:42 UTC
LATAM Airlines (LA, Santiago de Chile Int'l) has suspended most of its international commercial flights to and from Chile in line with a month-long new closure of the country’s borders on April 5, 2021, to contain the spread of a new wave of the COVID-19 virus.
Chile’s border will remain closed until May 4 in line with a Level 4 travel advisory issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, advising that travellers should avoid all travel to Chile. The Chilean government made the announcement on April 1 following a daily record of 7,830 COVID-19 cases in the country.
LATAM Chile, in a statement posted on Twitter, said it would maintain only repatriation flights. Those impacted by the border closures were able to change their tickets free of charge.
JetSMART (JA, Santiago de Chile Int'l) on its website issued a statement confirming the closure of borders to all international flights. It has introduced a special portal to assist passengers to change their tickets. The airline normally serves Bogotá and Cali...
26.03.2021 - 12:01 UTC
SkyWorks Leasing is planning to sell seventeen ex-LATAM Airlines Group aircraft, including eleven A321-200s, four B787-9s, and two A350-900s, in a public auction scheduled for April 14, 2021.
The entire complement of jets is currently stored at Victorville airport and will be sold on an "as-is, where-is" basis. Skyworks said the six widebodies were off-lease, while the eleven A321s have been committed back to LATAM on long-term leases due to begin in the second quarter of 2021, subject to bankruptcy court approval.
The list includes:
- A350-900s N8936W (msn 24) and N982DJ (msn 27), which are 5.3 and 5.1 years old and were previously operated by LATAM Airlines Brasil,
- B787-9s N8904W (msn 38459), N8903W (msn 38461), N931DJ (msn 38478), and N8906W (msn 38479), which are between 5.3 and 5.6 years of age and were previously operated by LATAM Airlines,
- A321-200s N891NW (msn 6698), N891EB (msn 6894), and N890SW (msn 6899), which were previously operated by LATAM Express; N495MN (msn 6780), N891PW (msn 6797), and N682GY (msn...
