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Latam has an upward trend and announces that it will stop making flights together with Azul
Airbus A319 da Latam
Por Rafael Luiz Canossa - A319, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rafael Ramos
5/25/2021
Latam is preparing for the resumption of its operations, even at levels below what they were before the pandemic. The company is operating 49% of what it operated in the same month in 2019, but this level is higher than that of April, which was 38%.
The company expects to significantly increase its operation. The airline closed April with around 190 daily flights, but the projection for May is 250 daily flights. In June there will already be 400, and by the end of 2021, there will be 800. The company will hire 750 pilots and flight attendants, and seven more Airbus A320 units are arriving to meet demand.
Airbus A350 Latam
Por Brian Bukowski, CC BY-SA 2.0, via wikimedia commons
The improvement trend caused the company to announce the end of the codeshare with Azul, so the flights shared between the two companies will no longer happen as of August 22 this year. In a note, the company says that the two companies are now better able to sell their own flights.
The agreement, which had been announced on June 16, 2020, was a response to the worsening market generated by the pandemic, but Latam says that both the expansion and the volume of passengers that benefit from this agreement have fallen short of expectations.
The end of the agreement is aligned between the two companies and will not have any impact on passengers. However, this resumption does not have a third wave, which is quite possible (and likely) to occur. Jerome Cadier, CEO of Latam, believes that it will not happen, as he believes that immunization will prevent it.
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Rafael Ramos
Aviation enthusiast from an early age, he had his first contacts with the area developing that good old habit of spending dozens of hours in front of the screens of Micrsoft Flight Simulator and other simulators. With a solid background in various technological areas, including engineering and chemistry, Rafael has rejoined aviation as editor and author of articles and materials on our portal, providing invaluable help to the dynamics and expansion of the website and the aeronautical community, bringing us the news and updates so indispensable for us to remain current in our area of operation.
   
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