Latin America – Page 93
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Boeing targets Latin America for widebody sales
Boeing sees big sales potential in the evolving Latin American market, with the company particularly targeting carriers in Argentina and Mexico for sales of new widebodies.
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Aeromexico and Delta to fight DOT on slot divestitures
Aeromexico and Delta Air Lines plan to fight conditions imposed by US regulators on the carriers' proposed joint venture, which would have required the airlines to divest 30 slot pairs at two key airports.
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Bombardier hopes to turn Latin tide towards smaller aircraft
Bombardier wants to convince Latin American airlines that bigger is not necessarily better, as it continues hunting for an anchor CSeries customer in Latin America and pushing its regional products.
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Aerolineas to phase out A340s by end-2018
Aerolineas Argentinas plans to phase out its fuel-guzzling Airbus A340s by end-2018 as the airline continues to work towards financial profitability under the ownership of a new government.
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ANALYSIS: Why Basel IV could lead to lack of liquidity
Basel IV regulations have aviation lenders reconsidering how they will participate in the market in future.
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Avianca chief prefers JV for strategic partner
Latin American airline group Avianca would prefer a desired strategic partnership to take the form of a joint venture, although the airline is also open to a capital investment, says chief executive Hernan Rincon.
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Mitsubishi targets Latin America as MRJ testing ramps up
Mitsubishi Aircraft continues to eye Latin America for orders for its MRJ regional jets, with the company's chief executive in the Americas predicting sales will begin to accumulate as soon as the region's economy improves.
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LCC for LATAM 'impossible': Cueto
LATAM Airlines Group has no plans to launch a separate low-cost carrier, with chief executive Enrique Cueto saying that such a move will be "impossible" due to the group's size.
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LATAM open to concessions for IAG JV approval: Cueto
LATAM Airlines Group is prepared to agree to concessions to have its planned joint venture with IAG approved by Brazilian authorities, but its chief executive also argues that the deal is getting more scrutiny as it is the first such deal in South America.
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ALTA calls for tax cuts, prepares for president Trump
Latin American airline traffic has doubled in the last ten years. And the industry thinks traffic can double again – if governments and airport authorities take steps to reduce taxes and fees.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: LATAM targets leisure segment with low-cost fares
LATAM Airlines Group is hoping a new basic economy fare category will help it capture more price-sensitive leisure passengers, as it continues to face uncertainty in soft macroeconomic conditions in Latin America.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Latin America's airlines look globally for partners
Latin America’s airlines are forming deeper partnerships with global major carriers as they seek greater connectivity and financial investment amid unstable macroeconomic conditions in their region.
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InterviewINTERVIEW: ALTA executive committee president Enrique Cueto
Latin American airlines might have weathered another year of economic challenges, but the region's carriers still have plenty to cheer about when it comes to growth in other areas, in the view of the new president of ALTA's executive committee, Enrique Cueto.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Argentina potential captures airline interest
After years of being shut off to foreign competition, Argentina's aviation industry looks set to open up to foreign carriers as a new government moves away from decades of protectionist policies.
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ANALYSIS: Latin America safety improves, but work needed
The past two years have seen few serious accidents in the Latin America and Caribbean area, and those that have happened have involved small turboprops. But two years is a short time in aviation safety terms and – given the region’s mediocre safety record over decades – not long enough ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Brazil's tax-haven verdict on Ireland has airline risks
The recent move by Brazil to add Ireland to the list of countries denominated as tax havens should be a concern to the nation’s airlines. By extension, the travelling public – whose access to air travel and competitive fares depends on a continued competitive Brazilian airline sector – also have ...
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InterviewINTERVIEW: ALTA executive director Eduardo Iglesias
As he looks ahead to the key themes at the upcoming ALTA Leaders Forum in Mexico City, Eduardo Iglesias, the airline association's executive director, likes to present the Latin America and Caribbean region's traffic figures with and without Brazil.
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FLIGHT TEST: We put Bombardier's CSeries through its paces
In the 1960s, established manufacturers Boeing and Douglas dominated the lower end of the single-aisle mainline commercial aircraft market. Their original offerings – the 737-100 and DC-9-10 – seated fewer than 100 passengers. With the fielding of the 737-200 and DC-9-40, capacity increased to more than 120 passengers. This trend ...
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Conversions dominate soft cargo market
Chris Seymour, head of market analysis at Flight Ascend Consultancy, examines cargo’s mixed fortunes as yields fall, and looks ahead in a 20-year aircraft delivery forecast
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Flight Fleet Forecast's single-aisle outlook 2016-2035
The 2016 Flight Fleet Forecast predicts the delivery of 42,800 new passenger and freight commercial aircraft over the next 20 years, worth almost $3 trillion in 2016 delivery values. About 63% of those deliveries – some 26,860 units – are expected to be single-aisle passenger aircraft, representing 46% of the ...