Summary
- LATAM Airlines Group unveiled a special livery on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, showcasing their support for the Pan American and Parapan American Games Santiago 2023.
- LATAM Airlines will transport the Pan American flame and function the official sponsor of Team Chile for the upcoming games, demonstrating their commitment to the event and the region.
- As a part of their fleet renewal and modernization strategy, LATAM Airlines received a brand new Boeing 787-9 this week, bringing them closer to their goal of getting one among the region’s latest and efficient fleets.
LATAM Airlines Group presented the official plane for the Pan American and Parapan American Games Santiago 2023 this week. It’s a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, registration CC-BBE, with a special livery celebrating the approaching games. At some point later, the corporate announced the delivery of a brand new Boeing 787-9 directly from Charleston in america.
LATAM’s unique livery
The Pan American Games will happen between October 20 and November 5, while the Parapan American Games will happen between November 17 and 26, 2023, in Santiago de Chile. The multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities could have 31 nations and 423 events in 17 different sports.
For the reason that event is going down in Chile, LATAM Airlines closed an agreement with the Chilean Olympic Committee because the official sponsor of Team Chile and shall be liable for transporting the Pan American flame from Mexico to Chile and inside the country.
As a part of this partnership, LATAM Airlines unveiled an exclusive livery on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, showing the event’s logo. Ignacio Cueto, Chairman of the Board of LATAM Airlines Group, said,
The aircraft chosen
LATAM Airlines chosen a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to be painted with the Pan American and Parapan American Games 2023 logo. This plane will carry the flame from Mexico to Chile and across Chile, visiting iconic destinations corresponding to Easter Island and Punta Arenas.
The widebody aircraft has a registration CCC-BBE, a ten-year-old plane. Based on data from ch-aviation, it has the capability to hold 247 passengers in a two-class configuration (217 in economy and 30 in business). It was first ordered by LATAM in 2007, and the airline received it in October 2013. LATAM Airlines Group has 31 Dreamliners (ten 787-8s and 21 787-9s).
Receiving a brand new plane
Besides unveiling the brand new livery for the Pan American Games, LATAM Group received a brand new Boeing 787-9 this week. The delivery of this recent aircraft is an element of the Group’s fleet renewal and modernization strategy, which is able to allow it to have 37 Dreamliners by the tip of this 12 months, becoming one among the region’s latest and efficient fleets, said the corporate in a press release. Overall, LATAM Group goals to complete 2023 with a fleet of 332 aircraft, of which 78 are widebody and 254 are narrowbody.
Photo: Boeing.
The Dreamliner fleet allows LATAM to achieve long-haul destinations corresponding to Johannesburg, Melbourne, and Sydney. Ramiro Alfonsín, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), said,
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