Definitely picking up market that QF isn't able to harness given fleet constraints. Isn't able to, or doesn't want to (to protect yields)? The ticket prices on those Oceania-South America flights are incredibly high! I knew some years ago from the local station manager in Santiago that they wanted ...
Jump to postLATAM is reinstating its nonstop SCL-SYD flights with the NW2024 schedule. I believe it will be 4x w and the remainder 3x w will continue to be via AKL. From a search on LA's website, it seems the daily SCL-AKL-SCL service is unaffected - the new non-stop flights will be in addition to that existin...
Jump to postFWIW DL added a 2nd flight from ATL for a few weeks over the holidays (doesn't seem as long as the IAH add). 13DEC24-13JAN25 both EZE and SCL will get a second daily from ATL. The second EZE-ATL will be a daytime flight: · DL 279 ATL 19:00 EZE 07:00+1 D · DL 278 EZE 09:15 ATL17:40 D A different tim...
Jump to postLATAM is reinstating its nonstop SCL-SYD flights with the NW2024 schedule. I believe it will be 4x w and the remainder 3x w will continue to be via AKL.
Jump to postLooks like Delta is increasing some of their South America flights. https://twitter.com/IshrionA/status/1779158352204824930?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet A second ATL-EZE is a very good add, EZE is a hot destination right now. The second ATL-SCL is a little more surprising t...
Jump to postI would love ORD-EZE but given my choice of a 2nd IAH-EZE or EWR-EZE, I will take IAH everyday of the week. I avoid NYC for any connections due to air traffic congestion, a single cloud sneeze and the system collapses. Yes, IAH is perfectly located for Western USA to South America connections but i...
Jump to postDelta Air Lines will add a second daily ATL-EZE/SCL between 13DEC23 - 13JAN24. First time ever that Delta will operate 3 daily services to EZE and 2 to SCL.
https://twitter.com/IshrionA/status/1779158352204824930
Looks like Delta is increasing some of their South America flights. https://twitter.com/IshrionA/status/1779158352204824930?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet So the US3 are putting a lot more flights into Buenos aires this winter..... while Aerolineas Argentinas pulls out of JFK...
Jump to postNew 787-9 (#26) for LATAM, en route on delivery via AUH-MAD-SCL. It is CC-BMA, 66313/619, 2017-built frame, ex G-CKMU/LN-LNU first with Norwegian UK and later with Norwegian LH.
Jump to postLufthansa has suspended its Tehran flights.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerosp ... 024-04-10/
AM needs more B787's, more crew and more everything! What a shame to see it go again! So unstable operation and SCL will be the sacrificed route. Oh well... 5X daily flights to MAD this summer... 21X from MEX, 7X from GDL, 7X from MTY and ICN will be launching again August 1st 2024. With 2 more 787...
Jump to postplanemanofnz wrote:Would AM consider starting flights to Australia/NZ? A lot of growing business and tourism ties to tap.
I believe MEX's altitude prevents a non-stop to Australia from working, but AKL should do be do-able.
IB resumed SFO last week and I noticed the other day that 2 out of the 3 weekly services have been operated by the A359, in place of the A332. Wondering if this is just a short term operational change or a permanent upgauge for the season?
Jump to postFor the second year in a row, Aeromexico will suspend its operations at SCL during the southern winter. Last flight out (AM011) will depart on 16APR with operations returning on 27OCT.
Jump to postFor the second year in a row, Aeromexico will suspend its operations at SCL during the southern winter. Last flight out (AM011) will depart on 16APR with operations returning on 27OCT.
Jump to postUA will go double daily (from 10x w) on IAH-EZE effective 01DEC24
Jump to postUnlikely any time soon, given Argentina's economic situation including currency, + the FAA oversight. It will be a long time before UA adds more EZE. UA announced today double daily on IAH-EZE effective 01DEC. Why would UA announce that? UA did double daily IAH EZE last year Nope. UA did 10x w betw...
Jump to postUA indeed only flies IAH-EZE and the route is said to be extremely profitable. The route began as a Continental Airlines operated flight, starting in late 2005, on a 767-200ER, and has operated pretty much ever since, through the merger, and has been flown by UA on everything from a 767-300ER, 777,...
Jump to postJetSMART will start flying between Buenos Aires AEP and Montevideo MVD, effective 29MAY24 with 14 weekly flights each way. The entrance of the LCC to the inter-Rio de la Plata market marks the end of AR's monopoly on the route since PLUNA's shutdown in 2012 and the end of extorsion prices for the 25...
Jump to postAR has removed EZE-ROS-EZE from future schedules. This connection from Argentina's third largest city was mostly to feed long haul flights out of EZE. AR will continue to serve ROS from AEP. The airline also recently removed MVD-EZE, which served the same purpose. https://twitter.com/Rosario_Vuela/s...
Jump to postMIA-EZE is overwhelmingly EZE point of sale, its MIA's largest international O&D market at a whopping over 700 PDEW, and the Argentina POS will be easier to sell AR to. JFK-EZE isnt even 1/3 the size of MIA-EZE and still has 3 daily flights. Seems better to add more capacity to MIA. According t...
Jump to postWhat are the top intercontinental routes for Aerolineas Argentinas? Is it MIA, MAD, and FCO? Those are its biggest intercontinental markets, yes. Not entirely accurate. According to Argentina's ANAC statistics for FEB2024 the top intercontinental routes from Argentina, measured by paxs carried, wer...
Jump to postDoes anyone have more information about this? With IAH, DFW and YYZ discontinued between april and october, SCL loses quite a bit of connectivity to Asia since those are relevant hubs for traffic between Chile and that continent. Looking at Cirium data, total O&D between Asia ((+CAI/IST/MOW)) a...
Jump to postWhat's the latest on the potential for longhaul service out of AEP? Allegedly AR was interested in AEP-MIA as well as UA on AEP-IAH. I'm in Buenos Aires right now and the city and country of Argentina are amazing, I hope there is more connectivity in the future. I also hope for the privatization of...
Jump to postJetSMART will introduce two new destinations in Brazil from Buenos Aires EZE: Curitiba CWB and Porto Alegre POA. Both will be introduced in JUL2024, 3x w each. The LCC will compete with Aerolineas Argentinas; AR flies 5x w to CWB and daily to POA, both from Buenos Aires.AEP. https://www.aviacionline...
Jump to postWhat's the latest on the potential for longhaul service out of AEP? Allegedly AR was interested in AEP-MIA as well as UA on AEP-IAH. I'm in Buenos Aires right now and the city and country of Argentina are amazing, I hope there is more connectivity in the future. I also hope for the privatization of...
Jump to postBA will add 3 extra weekly flights to GRU, for a total of 10x w, effective with the IATA 2024 winter schedule (29OCT24). BA241 LHR 11:30 GRU 20:20 787 246 BA240 GRU 23:40 LHR 14:10+1 787 246 IIRC, this is first time that BA is going double daily on GRU-LHR. Yes, it is. The 787-8s will be deployed o...
Jump to postBA will add 3 extra weekly flights to GRU, for a total of 10x w, effective with the IATA 2024 winter schedule (29OCT24).
BA241 LHR 11:30 GRU 20:20 787 246
BA240 GRU 23:40 LHR 14:10+1 787 246
After a string of airline departures, finally good news for SCL? According to this tweet, Turkish has reserved slots at GRU for a new upcoming flight, IST-GRU-SCL, 4x w, beginning 11JUN, no confirmation from TK yet. https://twitter.com/EbSilva2015/status/1765389650938450080 This would be a new flig...
Jump to postBrazil's GOL inaugurated today its GRU-BOG-EZE 5th freedoms flight, to be operated daily with their MAX 8s. First flight arrived at EZE with a respectable load of 120 paxs (65% LF). Of course, being an inaugural flight, a number of those may have been guests of the airline, etc. Initially the flight...
Jump to postleleko747 wrote:Only a pure fantasy which won't happen. April 1st is tomorrow!
312 passengers onboard Newark-bound United Airlines Boeing 787-10, N14016, in from Tel Aviv that diverted to Stewart Airport due to “extreme turbulence,” 7 passengers taken to the hospital with minor injuries and 15 treated on site - according to New Windsor EMS. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/new...
Jump to postI can't say this comes as a surprise. LATAM's CEO, Roberto Alves, confirmed during the Routes America conference that the Lima hub will be the base for the first A321XLRs the airline has on order and that the first country to be served from LIM will be the USA, without specifying any particular dest...
Jump to postAre international flights planned to return to CGH? Absolutely not. Congonhas can barely handle domestic traffic only. Too bad... A downtown Sao Paulo to downtown Buenos Aires (CGH-AEP) would surely command a nice premium over existing flights from GRU and would have a business executive in his off...
Jump to postULCC Flybondi will now operate the Buenos Aires (AEP&EZE) - Florianopolis route year-round. Previously the airline had planned to pause it during the Southern winter, June thru September. This leaves Gol, JetSMART and Flybondi flying this popular route year-round, and Aerolineas Argentinas with ...
Jump to postEffective NOV2024 Iberia will increase service on the MAD-EZE route from the current 17x (eff. APR2024) to 21x week. Two of the services will be operated with the A359 (IB101/2 & IB107/8) and the remaining one with the A332 (IB105/6).
Jump to postAnother airline suspending its SCL operations: UPS will no longer fly to SCL with its own metal, effective 12APR24. SCL is served currently with a daily 763F flight on the MIA-VCP-SCL-EZE-VCP-MIA route.
https://aero-naves.com/2024/03/18/ups-d ... s-a-chile/
LH510 11MAR could not make it to its destination this AM due to severe storms at EZE; the plane diverted to Rosario ROS (D-ABYU), the crew maxxed of duty time. and the ROS-EZE leg (300 kms) will leave for EZE at 23:00, once the crew has rested LH511 will depart for FRA at 02.10. https://twitter.com/...
Jump to postAfter a string of airline departures, finally good news for SCL? According to this tweet, Turkish has reserved slots at GRU for a new upcoming flight, IST-GRU-SCL, 4x w, beginning 11JUN, no confirmation from TK yet. https://twitter.com/EbSilva2015/status/1765389650938450080 This would be a new fligh...
Jump to postHere in Brazil, something that has been gaining attention is a supposed new Brazilian airline called Andorinha Aviação Linhas Aéreas. It belongs to the Hinasou Group, whose CEO is Mr. Higor Natan Paulino de Souza. Everything I've heard about the airline so far just screams scam and the article publ...
Jump to postBloomberg is reporting now that Azul has enlisted Citigroup and Guggenheim Partners to act as advisors as it mulls bid to acquire rival GOL. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-05/azul-working-with-citi-guggenheim-as-it-mulls-bid-for-rival-gol Big news, but for me, the chance of CADE ap...
Jump to postBloomberg is reporting now that Azul has enlisted Citigroup and Guggenheim Partners to act as advisors as it mulls bid to acquire rival GOL.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -rival-gol
Bloomberg is reporting now that Azul has enlisted Citigroup and Guggenheim Partners to act as advisors as it mulls bid to acquire rival GOL.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -rival-gol
I wonder if revamping the production of the tu-214 as a stop gap til the the Yak MC-21 enters service is also draining very finite resources. From what I understand it will still be a three crew flight deck for some time and the same ps-90 engines which were notoriously unreliable. Although I think...
Jump to postGOL has entered into an agreement with the Peruvian Air Force's SEMAN SAC (Servicio de Mantenimiento) for the overhaul of 13 737NGs between FEB-NOV2024. The work will be carried out at the SEMAN MRO in Lima. 738 PR-GUP was the first one to arrive. https://i.postimg.cc/zDg6TcZz/429654202-356783511013...
Jump to postThe first of 3 MAX 8 NTU by Ukraine's UIA for Aerolineas Argentinas flew from storage at VCV to BFI for preparations for onward delivery, sporting Argentinian registration LV-KIT (ex UR-MXA). Notice the winglet already sporting AR's livery. https://i.postimg.cc/vBwGBtyX/GHo-Ii-YYW0-AAk-FNC.jpg https...
Jump to postLATAM is introducing a modification on its coach seats, initially on the 787-9 fleet. It is transitioning from these fabric red-blue seat covers: https://i.postimg.cc/C5r9JfPw/GHm-FC5f-XYAAFMJK.jpg to these leather seat covers in the same tones but with a different pattern https://i.postimg.cc/RCwRR...
Jump to postI guess the withdrawal from the China-Russia CR929 program will allow them to focus on the MC-21. First flight of the MC-21-300RUS is scheduled for 2024, 2025 for an entry into services seems optimistic to me. Building jet airliners is hard. Still blows my mind that the Japanese have abandoned the ...
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