LATAM Airlines Brazil

As Airbus celebrates the milestone inaugural test flight of the new A350-1000, the largest variant of the A350XWB family, Routesonline looks at approaching two years of commercial operations with the smaller A350-900.

The carrier will start operating the A350 XWB commercially in January 2016 between Sao Paulo and Manaus, Brazil, as part of continued training and crew familiarisation. This will be followed by operations from Sao Paulo to Miami in March and then to Madrid in April.

TAM, part of the LATAM airline group has announced that it will be reducing its domestic activity by up to 10 percent.

This decision, which has already been included in the strategic plans of LATAM Airlines Group for the future, will see TAM add between four and six new regional destinations to its network every year. To support its plans it is in the “advanced stages of negotiations” with aircraft manufacturers to acquire 18 aircraft and options for 12 more.

We took a look at the top 20 airlines in the world by operating carrier, analysing the network capacity in December 2013 against the same month this year.

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