All Latin America articles – Page 94
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Volaris chief executive Enrique Beltranena
Volaris chief executive Enrique Beltranena has a memento in his office that doesn’t quite gel with the modern confines of the airline’s headquarters in the Santa Fe business district of Mexico City.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Where routes have been added in the last year
Editor's note: This analysis, based on data from Flightglobal's schedules specialist Innovata, is focused on major route launches and closures over the past year. The criteria for including new routes is that they have more than nine departures (equivalent of 18 return flights) appearing in Innovata's schedules for August 2015 ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Making sense of accident statistics
Statistics don't lie. But their misinterpretation, deliberate or otherwise, can easily create a false impression.
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News
Embraer prepares to deliver first Legacy 450, following US validation
Embraer is gearing up to deliver the first Legacy 450 business jet, with the first of the superlight aircraft destined for its US launch customer in the coming weeks.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Why the principle of economics still rules ok
As attention turns to summer 2016 schedules and the slot co-ordination process for the season, it is timely to examine the likely operating environment and how economic expectations are changing, as well as the likely implications.
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News
PICTURE: Cayman Airways adds first Saab 340B
Cayman Airways has added its first Saab 340B, which will operate on the airline's route between Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac.
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News
LABACE: Waypoint Leasing launches Brazil presence
Ireland-based helicopter lessor Waypoint Leasing is establishing a local office in Rio de Janeiro to support a growing fleet of operators in Brazil and in the future the rest of Latin America.
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LABACE: HondaJet makes debut as certification wait continues
Honda Aircraft continued a four-month-long “world tour” in Sao Paulo with the HondaJet making its debut at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (LABACE) on 11 August.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Interjet eyes new network growth from 2016
Mexican carrier Interjet expects to substantially grow its US network when a new bilateral air services agreement takes effect in 2016, and is also planning to expand further in Latin America.
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News
Azul begins United sales in first stage of tie-up
Brazil's Azul has started selling airfares to 35 destinations served by United Airlines through an interline agreement, taking the first step in a partnership that the two airlines first announced in June.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: The size and shape of the world airliner fleet revealed in our census
Airlines, it seems, cannot get enough of Airbus and Boeing narrowbodies. With the latest re-engined versions of the A320 family and the 737 due to enter service in the next two years, and both manufacturers sitting on hundreds of orders, deliveries of their existing single-aisle types have continued to mount ...
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News
Brazil's senate approves renegotiated Gripen finance package
The Brazilian Air Force is a step closer to securing 36 Saab Gripen NG fighter aircraft with the federal senate approving a renegotiated financing agreement with Sweden this week that lowers the interest rate on the $4.6 billion loan from 2.54% to 2.19%.
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Interjet still pleased with Superjet's performance
Mexican carrier Interjet continues to be pleased with the performance of its Sukhoi Superjet 100s, but has indicated that it will not be interested in a stretched variant of the type that Sukhoi is currently studying.
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News
LATAM's entire fleet to have new livery by 2018
LATAM Airlines Group expects to have its new branding on its entire fleet in 2018.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: The Flightglobal Fleet Forecast's narrowbody outlook
Ascend consultancy head Rob Morris examines the competition facing the incumbent single-aisle manufacturers
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News
LATAM unveils new logo
LATAM Airlines Group unveiled a new corporate identity today, unifying its LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines operations under a single brand.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: GAMA reports mixed results for business and general aviation aircraft market
The market sent mixed signals to the general and business aviation sector in the second quarter, as worldwide shipments of fixed-wing aircraft declined but overall sales inched higher compared with the same period last year, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) announced on 31 July.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: LABACE approaches amid regional instability
The 12th Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition will open its doors on 11 August in a region mired in political and economic instability.
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News
Airbus CN235 military transport crashes in Colombia, killing 11
An Airbus CN235-200M military transport aircraft operated by the Colombian Air Force crashed 31 July, killing all 11 people on board.
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InterCaribbean and BA become interline partners
Turks and Caicos-based InterCaribbean Airways has launched an interline deal with British Airways.