After failing twice to secure suitable leases on Boeing 737s, Bolivia’s Transporte Aéreo Militar (TAM) appears to have turned to two Avro RJ70s, instead. TAM’s Director, General Julio César Villarroel Camacho, announced on 24 May that the airline would lease two RJ70s from India and Romania. The two aircraft, he said, are […]
Chile’s Aerovías DAP has taken delivery of a third former Swiss Avro RJ100 acquired through lessor Tronos. The latest addition is RJ100 T7-IYY (msn E3339 ex HB-IYY). She flew her last service for Swiss on 3 April — a roundtrip from Zürich to London City as LX466/467 — and then departed […]
Star Up, parent of Peruvian BAe 146 operator StarPerú, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chile’s Latin American Wings (LAW) under which the two airlines would combine their operations. LAW operates four Boeing 737-300s; it had been a charter airline until recently, but launched scheduled operations in March. Under the […]
The Bolivian government has once again extended the deadline for Transporte Aéreo Militar (TAM) to restructure itself from a military unit to a civil state enterprise. The latest deadline, 31 January, was itself an extension of the previous 16 December 2016 deadline. With TAM still not ready to become a civil-certified airline, […]
Chile’s Aerovías DAP took delivery of another former Swiss Avro RJ100 just before the end of the year. RJ100 T7-IXP (msn E3283 ex HB-IXP) was acquired through lessor Tronos. Her last service for Swiss had been a roundtrip from Zürich to Milano Linate as LX1616/LX1617 on 19 December. She was ferried to Cranfield on the […]
On 8 December Bolivia’s Minister of Public Works ordered Transporte Aéreo Militar (TAM) to suspend commercial operations, enforcing its order by banning the airline from using check-in facilities and parking its aircraft at passenger terminals, and by instructing the airport and ATC authority, Aasana, not to accept TAM flight plans for […]
Considerable evidence is emerging that the crash of the LaMia Bolivia Avro RJ85 in Rionegro, Colombia, may have been due to fuel exhaustion. Avro RJ85 CP-2933 (msn E2348) crashed while on approach to Rionegro Airport, outside Medellín, Colombia, on 28 November. Four passengers and two LaMia employees (a flight attendant […]
On 9 November, BAe 146-200 CC-ACO (msn E2094) operated Aerovías DAP‘s inaugural flight from Punta Arenas to Ushuaia, in Argentina—the southernmost city in the world. The flight departed Punta Arenas at 14:00 local, arriving at Ushuaia at 14:30, where it was greeted by a water cannon salute. The route will […]
Bolivia’s EcoJet has flown Avro RJ85 CP-2889 (msn E2269) to Kemble for maintenance by Chevron Aero. She departed the airline’s base at Cochabamba on 25 July, and routed via Brasilia, Cali, and Fort Lauderdale, where she overnighted, continuing on the following day to Worcester and then to Goose Bay, where […]
Chile’s Aerovías DAP has acquired former Cello Avro RJ85 G-LENM (msn E2273) from Falko. She had been parked at Cranfield since being returned off-lease by Cello in October. After a brief flight test on 19 December, her registration was cancelled on 23 December, and she was registered as CC-ANS to […]
