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The airline LATAM Airlines restarted flights to Melbourne from Santiago de Chile and also announces new direct flights from Lima a Aruba.
This week two of the subsidiaries of LATAM Airlines Group They presented news on their routes, from Chile flights to Melbourne restarted in Australia, while since Peru a new route was announced Caribe with frequencies at Aruba.
LATAM Peru will fly to Aruba
The Peruvian airline LATAM Peru announced that, from 2 from December to 2023, A new route will begin operating between Lima, the capital of Peru, and Aruba, a Dutch territory located in the Caribbean Sea.
This new route will be the fourth LATAM Peru operate between Lima and a Caribbean destination, after Cancún (Mexico), Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) and Saint Joseph (Costa Rica).
Flights between Lima and Aruba will be operated on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, with a duration of approximately 5 hours and 20 minutes. The aircraft used will be Airbus A319 O A320, with capacity for 12 passengers in Premium Economy cabin and 126 O 162 passengers in Economy, respectively.
The announcement of LATAM Airlines occurs at a time when the Caribe recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. On 2022, This region received more than 30 million tourists, which represents an increase of more than 60% with respect to 2021.
Direct flights with Oceania returned
The early morning of 1 of September, LATAM took back the direct flights from Santiago de Chile to Melbourne, Australia, thus reactivating what will be the main gateway from South America to Oceania, without scales. Until now, the only route offered by the group to that country (with destiny to Sydney), includes a scale Auckland, New Zealand.
This service had been suspended in April 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. And after its resumption, The company plans to transport about 80.000 passengers between both continents at the end of its first year of operation. The Santiago-Melbourne route is the longest of the group, surpassing the 11.000 kilometers of distance.
Flights from the Chilean capital to Melbourne will have three frequencies, taking off every monday, Wednesday and Friday at 00:55 (local time), and arriving at the destination at 05:30 (local time) the next day. From Melbourne departures will be every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 12:25 (local time), arriving in Santiago at 11:20 of the same day.
The flights will be operated on aircraft Boeing 787-9, with capacity for 300 passengers distributed in Premium Business cabins, Economy+ y Economy. Previously, The group had already restarted its operations towards Australia in march 2022 with three weekly flights to Sydney, progressively increasing its operations until reaching a daily flight in December of last year.
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