LAN Cargo
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| LAN Cargo | ||
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| IATA UC |
ICAO LCO |
Callsign LAN CARGO |
| Founded | 1929 | |
| Hubs | Miami International Airport Santiago International Airport |
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| Focus cities | Viracopos Mexico City |
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| Fleet size | 4 (2 orders) | |
| Destinations | 22 | |
| Parent company | LAN Airlines S.A. | |
| Company slogan | "We are were you need us" | |
| Headquarters | Miami International Airport | |
| Key people | Cristian Ureta (CEO) Alvaro Carril (Senior VP Sales) Claudio Silva (VP Sales North America) Cpt. Marco Guzman (Flight Operations Director) Cpt. Alberto Rodrigo (Flight Operations Director USA) |
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| Website: http://www.lancargo.com | ||
LAN Cargo S.A. is a cargo airline based in Santiago, Chile. It is the cargo subsidiary of LAN Airlines operating cargo flights in South America and North America. Its main base is Miami International Airport.[1]
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[edit] History
The airline is based on the original cargo divisions of LAN Chile, Ladeco and Fast Air. It also works closely with the other cargo airlines in the group, ABSA - Aerolinhas Brasileiras, Florida West International Airways and MasAir.[1]
Although LAN Chile S.A. has a minority share in Florida West International Airways, LAN Cargo does not cooperate in any way with Florida West. As, Florida West is an independently operated company that deal with LAN Cargo as it would with any other airline (via interline agreements) with no preference given to LAN Cargo.[citation needed]
[edit] Destinations
LAN Cargo serves the following as of March 2009[2]:
- Africa
- Dakar - Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport [from summer 2009, with 777F]
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Ascuncion - Silvio Pettirossi International Airport
- Belo Horizonte - Tancredo Neves International Airport
- Bogota - El Dorado International Airport
- Buenos Aires - Ministro Pistarini International Airport
- Campinas - Viracopos-Campinas International Airport
- Caracas - Simon Bolivar International Airport
- Curitiba - Afonso Pena International Airport
- Lima - Jorge Chávez International Airport
- Montevideo - Carrasco International Airport
- Manaus - Eduardo Gomes International Airport
- Porto Alegre - Porto Alegre Airport
- Rio de Janeiro - Galeao International Airport
- Santiago - Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport Hub
- Vitória - Eurico de Aguiar Salles Airport
- Tucumán - Teniente Benjamín Matienzo International Airport
[edit] Fleet
The LAN Cargo fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2009) [3]:
| Aircraft | Total | Orders | Notes |
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| Boeing 767-300F | 4 | 0 | |
| Boeing 777-F | 2 | 2 | MIA-SCL Route[4] |
The first two Boeing 777-F are leased by GECAS (777-F6N), anothers two been delivered in 2011 (777-F16). LAN Cargo also operates Boeing 747-200F wet-leased from Southern Air.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 104. 2007-04-03.
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- ^ "Directory: World Airlines Part 2 (C-L)". Flight International: 31-80. 2009-04-07.
- ^ http://en.lancargo.com/news/first-Boeing-777F
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