Route optimisation trials show significant benefits
The early results from four End-to-End Route Optimisation trials in Latin America and Caribbean are showing significant savings in time, fuel, and carbon emissions. Carried out by the CANSO ATFM Data Exchange Network for the Americas, CADENA, as a Planned Airway System Alternative (PASA) initiative, the trials were run for 90 days in the second […]
United is adding 3 new routes to the Caribbean, Latin America
The latest pandemic-era network adjustment spells good news for the Caribbean and Latin America. United Airlines is adding three new routes to the region from two of its current domestic hubs, as well as one former hub. Beginning on Dec. 18, United will start Saturday-only service in the following markets: Cleveland (CLE) to Nassau, Bahamas […]
TMA-SP Neo Project – Restructuring of the largest terminal in Latin America
The New Sao Paulo Terminal Control Area (SAO TMA NEO) air space structure was implemented on 20 May 2021. The revised layout will enable the safe and efficient handling of the projected traffic growth in an airspace which covers three important airports: Guarulhos (GRU), Congonhas (CGH) and Campinas (VCP). To realize this, extensive collaboration between […]
IATA calls on Latin American governments to modernise air transport
IATA has unveiled a four-prong plan it says can help make Latin America’s air transport industry more equitable and competitive following the coronavirus crisis. Speaking at a briefing on 25 March, the group’s regional vice-president for the Americas Peter Cerda says that simply returning to 2019 travel levels is “unacceptable”. He urges governments to join […]
Boeing Forecasts Resilient Aviation Market for Latin America and Caribbean Despite Near-term Challenges
Boeing [NYSE: BA] projects demand for 2,610 new airplanes in Latin America and the Caribbean over the next two decades. The new forecast reflects the near-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic along with the long-term fundamentals for air travel. Single-aisle commercial models will comprise 90% of this airplane demand, reflecting the expansion of affordable travel […]
Delta Expands Service To Latin America With New Routes
Delta Air Lines is resuming passenger flights between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Guarulhos International Airport (GRU) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The service will operate four times weekly aboard a Boeing 767-400 aircraft, which features new Delta One and Delta Premium Select classes. Delta provides ready and convenient access to Delta […]
Delta Air Lines Resumes Service to Popular Latin American Destinations
Delta Air Lines announced it has returned to most Latin American countries it served before the COVID-19 pandemic by restarting service to Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. The carrier will resume flights from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Arturo Merino International Airport in Chile and Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Ecuador on December 18. Then on […]
The continued shutdown of Latin America and Caribbean is hurting regional airlines
With COVID-19 infections accelerating, the majority of Latin America and Caribbean countries still closed to commercial travel, and Europe imposing travel restrictions, the tourism and aviation industry risks losing millions of jobs and seeing more airlines filing bankruptcy, two leading industry organizations say. On Thursday, the International Air Transport Association and the World Travel & […]
Latin America’s airline apocalypse signals a future with weak competition
Bankrupt LATAM Airlines (LTM.SN) and Avianca Holdings AVT_p.CN are dramatically retrenching their once grand ambitions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, reducing competition in Latin America as they mull once-unthinkable cooperation with rivals. Since May, LATAM has exited Argentina, partnered with rival Azul SA (AZUL.N) in Brazil and cut back domestic operations in Chile, while Avianca has […]
ACI Latin America-Caribbean/World Annual General Assembly postponed
Airports Council International (ACI) Latin America-Caribbean and ACI World have today announced the postponement of its Annual General Assembly, Conference and Exhibition to November 2021. The event was originally planned for 7 to 11 November 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, hosted by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 (AA2000). The decision to postpone it was taken in response […]
