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LATAM Airlines says goodbye definitively to his planes Airbus A350 and begins to unify its long-haul fleet exclusively with aircraft Boeing.
The announcement was made by the CEO of LATAM Brazil, Jerome Cadier in an internal communication from the airline that quickly leaked into various specialized portals of the airline industry.
between the decisions, one of them is the restructuring of our wide-body fleet in Brazil. Thus, today we announce that at that time seven A350 aircraft will no longer be part of the LATAM Brazil fleet and another four next week. As a result, from this month, the wide-body fleet of the LATAM Group will be made up of Boeing 767, 777 and 787 Dreamliner.
These measures come at a time when the group is undergoing a restructuring process under the Chapter 11 from United States, generated by the worst crisis in aviation history.
Within several of the actions that the airline has taken, such as returning planes, sell them or close certain routes, the long-range fleet will also be affected in the quest to unify it.
Following the announcement, the LATAM Airlines Group passenger fleet will be made up of 17 Boeing 767, 10 Boeing 777-300ER, 10 Boeing 787-8 and 12 Boeing B787-9.
Thus, the flights that until this month were operated by the Airbus A350 they will gradually be operated by Boeing aircraft 787 of the group's Chilean subsidiary.
The history of the Airbus A350 was born under the TAM brand in the year 2005 when the company signs a memorandum of understanding with Airbus with the intention of acquiring 8 aircraft of this model and seven additional aircraft were ordered 2 years later, reaching a total of 22 Airbus A350-900 aircraft.
Finally, For the year 2010 the order of these planes they arrived at 27 aircraft, which implied that it became one of the largest operators of this aircraft worldwide, but since the merger with LAN everything changed.
The first aircraft arrived at TAM on 18 from December to 2015 in TAM colors and was America's first operator of this aircraft, In fact, he was invited by the airline to participate in one of the first flights of this aircraft between São Paulo and Manaos what can you read here:
Faced with the economic crisis in Brazil, The first doubts about the continuation of the A350 in the LATAM fleet began to appear, at that moment 4 of these aircraft were leased to Qatar Airways from 2017, the same ones that returned in May 2020 in the face of the crisis generated by the current pandemic.
With the alliance and purchase of the 20% of LATAM shares by Delta 14 A350 aircraft were going to pass to the North American, but again the pandemic crisis affected this operation.
To close the brief history of the A350 in LATAM and complete transition to a long-range Boeing fleet, the airline only received 13 from 27 aircraft from the order book and will focus on optimizing your resources by lowering the different types of aircraft that you have in your fleet where they are also counted 44 Airbus A319, 132 Airbus A320, 12 Airbus A320neo y 38 Airbus A321.
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How sad because this was one of my favorite planes in the world and my favorite in Latin America, but we know that he will have good companions who can replace his routes and provide excellent service.
Unfortunately the pandemic changed everything 🙁