All LATAM Airlines Group articles – Page 8
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LATAM issues A320neo RFP
LATAM Airlines Group has issued a request for proposals to finance six Airbus A320neo-family aircraft, FlightGlobal understands.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Latin airlines start engine for overseas growth in 2018
Latin American airlines are set to grow international service in 2018, as the region's improving economies spur carriers to launch more flights abroad.
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LATAM invests in hangar at Sao Paulo
LATAM Airlines Group has signed an agreement with financing and asset management company RB Capital to build a maintenance hangar at Sao Paulo Guarulhos airport.
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R-R expects greater Latin American penetration through widebodies
Rolls-Royce sees Latin America playing an increasingly crucial role in its operational portfolio as the region's airlines grow their widebody fleets.
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LATAM adjusts fleet commitments in line with demand
LATAM Airlines Group has grown its fleet commitments for 2018 and 2019, responding to an improving demand environment.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Lenders see opening in Latin American delivery uptick
An uptick in aircraft deliveries in Latin America in 2018 is creating opportunities for lenders in a region that has needed little in the way of new secured debt in recent years.
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LATAM Peru to challenge Avianca on Lima-Medellin
LATAM Airlines Peru will begin nonstop service between Lima and Medellin from 26 February 2018, ending rival Avianca's monopoly on the route.
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InterviewINTERVIEW: Enrique Cueto, chief executive, LATAM Airlines Group
For LATAM Airlines Group, the end of 2016 marked a financial turning point. The Santiago-based carrier turned in an annual net profit, its first in the four years since its creation from a merger between Chile's LAN and Brazil's TAM.
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LATAM closes $350m private placement
LATAM Airlines Group has closed a UF8.7 million (roughly $350 million) private placement to refinance some of its outstanding debt in Brazil.
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LATAM to add Costa Rica to network
LATAM Airlines Peru will begin service between Lima and San Jose from 1 January 2018, adding the Costa Rican capital to LATAM's network.
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LATAM plans $350m local bond refinancing
LATAM Airlines Group plans to issue a UF8.7 million ($359 million) unsecured bond in Chile, with proceeds used to repay its TAM Capital 3 debt.
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LATAM Brazil finds bullet lodged in 767 wing
Brazilian authorities are investigating after a bullet was discovered lodged in the left wing of a LATAM Airlines Brazil Boeing 767-300ER.
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Airline JVs crucial for Latin America to compete: CEOs
Latin American airlines believe that joint ventures are the way of the future, although they say regulators have not come around to the benefits of such partnerships.
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LCC for LATAM 'impossible': Cueto
LATAM Airlines Group has no plans to launch a separate low-cost carrier, with chief executive Enrique Cueto saying that such a move will be "impossible" due to the group's size.
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LATAM open to concessions for IAG JV approval: Cueto
LATAM Airlines Group is prepared to agree to concessions to have its planned joint venture with IAG approved by Brazilian authorities, but its chief executive also argues that the deal is getting more scrutiny as it is the first such deal in South America.
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ALTA calls for tax cuts, prepares for president Trump
Latin American airline traffic has doubled in the last ten years. And the industry thinks traffic can double again – if governments and airport authorities take steps to reduce taxes and fees.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: LATAM targets leisure segment with low-cost fares
LATAM Airlines Group is hoping a new basic economy fare category will help it capture more price-sensitive leisure passengers, as it continues to face uncertainty in soft macroeconomic conditions in Latin America.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Latin America's airlines look globally for partners
Latin America’s airlines are forming deeper partnerships with global major carriers as they seek greater connectivity and financial investment amid unstable macroeconomic conditions in their region.
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InterviewINTERVIEW: ALTA executive committee president Enrique Cueto
Latin American airlines might have weathered another year of economic challenges, but the region's carriers still have plenty to cheer about when it comes to growth in other areas, in the view of the new president of ALTA's executive committee, Enrique Cueto.
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InterviewINTERVIEW: ALTA executive director Eduardo Iglesias
As he looks ahead to the key themes at the upcoming ALTA Leaders Forum in Mexico City, Eduardo Iglesias, the airline association's executive director, likes to present the Latin America and Caribbean region's traffic figures with and without Brazil.