LATAM (Peru)

LATAM Airlines Peru (commonly known as LATAM Peru or LATAM. Formerly known as LAN Airlines Peru, LAN Peru or simply LAN) is an airline with Peruvian and Chilean capital (51% Peruvian, 49% Chilean due to Peruvian legislation), a subsidiary of LATAM Airlines Group. It was previously part of the Oneworld alliance. LATAM Peru is made up of three social business groups based in Peru. Having an important participation in the Peruvian air market, it competes with the airlines Star Peru, Sky Airline Peru, etc.

LAN Perú was dissolved on August 6, 2015, upon completion of the merger between LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines. Subsequently, on May 5, 2016 (almost 6 years after the start of the merger with TAM Líneas Aéreas) it began to officially and definitively operate as LATAM Airlines, which meant the change of corporate image and brand, which is estimated to cost $60. million US dollars.

Its operations center is the Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM), in the city of Lima. It offers 18 destinations in the local market, operating in the Peruvian coast, highlands and jungle regions through more than 100 daily flights. It also has 34 medium and long-range international destinations. During 2015 several new international destinations have been added: Orlando, Antofagasta, Montevideo and Washington D.C.

In 2008, LAN Peru transported more than 2 million 970 thousand passengers in the domestic market within the country.

History

LAN Peru Airbus A320 at Rodríguez Ballón International Airport.

The airline was founded in Lima in July 1998 by businessmen Boris Hirmas Rubio, Lorenzo Sousa Debarbieri, Cristian Said Montiel and the lawyer Javier Rodríguez Larrain, beginning to operate on July 2, 1999 with basic services from Lima to Cusco and Arequipa. On November 15, 1999, it opened the route to Miami.

In 2004, a court order temporarily suspended flights due to alleged irregularities in the constitution of the company. That order generated controversy in politics for questioning the work of Judge Eloy Zamalloa.

During the third quarter of 2006, LAN added 8 new Airbus 319 aircraft to its fleet, four of them in August and the remaining four during September, intended to replace its 7 existing aircraft for domestic operations in Peruvian territory.

In October 2006, LAN Perú obtained authorization from the Peruvian DGAC to operate as an Aeronautical Maintenance Workshop (TMA), granting it the number 029. This allows it, in addition to providing support to LAN operations, to offer service to other companies that operate aircraft with Peruvian registration.

On August 13, 2010, LAN Airlines announced before the SVS its intentions to merge with the Brazilian airline TAM Líneas Aéreas, creating LATAM Airlines Group, one of the largest airline consortiums in Latin America and one of the largest worldwide. After this, on May 5, 2016, it began to operate officially and definitively as LATAM Airlines.

Destinations

Fleet and services

The LATAM Peru fleet has the following aircraft:

!— ! colspan="3" |Average fleet age (March 2023): 11.2 years |}

Historical fleet

Boeing 737-2Q3 from LAN Peru at Jorge Chávez International Airport.