Summary
- While it has a history with wet-leased A330s, Boliviana de Aviación now has a pair of its own
- The A330s have 50 more seats than the carrier’s outdated Boeing 767s and have lie-flat business seats with personal IFE
- The inaugural A330 flight to Miami took place on July twenty third
Boliviana de Aviación (BoA) now has two Airbus A330-200s, with a 3rd coming. They’re former Virgin Australia examples, following the top of that carrier’s widebody flying. Averaging 9.4 years, they’re 3 times younger than BoA’s other long-haul type: the Boeing 767-300ER. The shift to the A330 provides a considerably higher, more modern, and more competitive long-haul platform – and there’s finally personal IFE, even in business.
BoA’s first two A330s
The primary A330 to enter BoA’s fleet was CP-3209, which arrived in South America in April 2023. In accordance with ch-aviation.com, it was initially delivered to Virgin Australia in September 2014 (see the next photo). CP-3208 joined it in early May, which was in Virgin Australia’s fleet from September 2013.
Each were acquired on operating leases. While CP-3209 is owned by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and is managed by the identical company, CP-3208 is owned by Park Aerospace Holdings and managed by Avolon, a serious global lessor.
Photo: BoA.
On July twenty third, CP-3028 had the honour of operating BoA’s first A330 service to Miami; more on that below. While this aircraft has been kept busy, Flightradar24 indicates that CP-3209 stays grounded in Santa Cruz after arriving from storage in Chateauroux in France on April twenty fifth.
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Welcome ard to Miami
On July twenty third, BoA inaugurated the A330 to South Florida. At 23:47 Bolivia time, CP-3208 took off from Santa Cruz as flight OB766.. After 6h 28m, it arrived in Miami at 06:15. Its routing is shown below: