The matter of the age and size of Aerolineas Argentinas fleet is in vogue. Neither of both issues is especially key to providing a good service to passengers, that is what basically have to do any commercial aviation company.
Following authorization by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Boeing, LAN Airlines conducted the first test flight of its 787 Dreamliner after implementing the modifications required to the battery system of the aircraft.
Roughly two months after LAN’s Dreamliner inaugural commercial service, one of our correspondents had a chance to fly Boeing’s futuristic airliner proposal as a regular, fare-paying passenger in the Buenos Aires-Santiago route. Check and see how it felt to fly a Boeing 787 before their auxiliary power unit batteries would reheat and release smoke getting the worldwide Dreamliner fleet grounded for more than ninety days…
The growth in the number of passengers passing through airports around the world continues to rise, but the economic crisis affecting European countries began to be felt in some terminals. Although figures are not yet final, the Airports Council International ahead the list of the 100 most visited airports in 2011.
After sixteen years serving long-distance and high-traffic routes from Santiago de Chile or Lima (Peru), two of LAN Airlines’ oldest Boeing 767-300ERs are finding their way into warmer weather with Caribbean Airlines. During June 2012, they will commence non-stop services linking Trinidad and Barbados with the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe through the London’s Gatwick gateway. Aimed at offering reliable travel options to European customers looking for non-stop flights to the Lesser Antilles and/or onward connections at both ends of the new routes, these new Caribbean Airlines services represent a major strategic move by the Trinidad & Tobago carrier.
Last February 1st was the last commercial flight of an Aerolineas Argentinas Jumbo jet. The aircraft landed at Ezeiza International, closing 35 years of operations, which Boeing 747 was the most outstanding aircraft of the company fleet.
The end of the history of a DC-9 together the end of the Argentinean owner company after the golden nineties. The 2002 year crisis and bankruptcy of Dinar Air Lines, the airplane suffered the same fate that the company: Disappearance by scrapping.
