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LAN Plans To Increase Services To AKL & SYD

Old Dec 11, 2014, 2:33 pm
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LAN Plans To Increase Services To AKL & SYD

Today LAN revealed its strategy for growth on its services to Australia and New Zealand during 2015. During the Fourth Quarter of 2015 the B-787-9 will be deployed on the SCL-AKL-SYD route replacing the 787-8. The 787-9 will have the capacity for 313 passengers. LAN will also increase frequency on the SCL-AKL-SYD route from a daily service to 10x weekly:
http://www.lan.com/es_cl/sitio_perso...a-y-sudamerica
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Old Dec 12, 2014, 5:03 pm
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EF still shows 343 for the AKL-SCL run in early November 2015.
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Old Dec 13, 2014, 6:56 am
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They should launch GRU-AKL 3 weekly with a 788, connecting to SCL-AKL-SYD service and kill NZ's EZE hopes.
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competition from air nz

Air New Zealand has announced it will soon be flying direct to Buenos Aires.

The airline has been actively investigating a South American option for about six months but it is understood recent falls in jet fuel prices have made launching the route a more attractive prospect.


While I doubt I'll ever use the service, I'm glad the LAN/Qantas monopoly on the Oceana-South America route is coming to an end. Hopefully this, along with the extra capacity with LAN, will result in some cheaper prices.

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/new...ectid=11372895
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Old Dec 14, 2014, 7:08 am
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Originally Posted by og
EF still shows 343 for the AKL-SCL run in early November 2015.
The remaining A343s will be phased out by late April. LAN will receive seven 787-9s during 2015 and three of those 787-9s will be exclusively dedicated to the SCL-AKL-SYD route.

Originally Posted by GRUflyer
They should launch GRU-AKL 3 weekly with a 788, connecting to SCL-AKL-SYD service and kill NZ's EZE hopes.
SCL is LATAM's gateway to Oceania for obvious reasons. Remember that NZ is basically replacing the "capacity void" left when AR withdrew from AKL/SYD and will be dependent on AR's meager connectivity via EZE since NZ will codeshare with AR. Whereas LAN and TAM offer superior connections to/from GRU, GIG, LIM, etc. via SCL. With the addition of the three new weekly frequencies on the SCL-AKL-SYD route, LATAM will offer enhanced connectivity for passengers and will remain as the dominant carrier linking South America to Australia and New Zealand.
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The remaining A343s will be phased out by late April. LAN will receive seven 787-9s during 2015 and three of those 787-9s will be exclusively dedicated to the SCL-AKL-SYD route.


SCL is LATAM's gateway to Oceania for obvious reasons. Remember that NZ is basically replacing the "capacity void" left when AR withdrew from AKL/SYD and will be dependent on AR's meager connectivity via EZE since NZ will codeshare with AR. Whereas LAN and TAM offer superior connections to/from GRU, GIG, LIM, etc. via SCL. With the addition of the three new weekly frequencies on the SCL-AKL-SYD route, LATAM will offer enhanced connectivity for passengers and will remain as the dominant carrier linking South America to Australia and New Zealand.
But NZ has a far superior onboard service and a much better capilarity out of AKL than LA.

If one is flying to anywhere else other than SYD, NZ become appealing because you can fly straight from AKL to smaller destinations across NZ.

And I really hope the LA management is not so stiff as you suggest. Or just because GRU is their hub to Europe, you believe they should cancel the SCL-MAD non-stop?

This is about trying to minimize your enemy's service before they can get a hold of passangers.
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Old Dec 15, 2014, 4:56 pm
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Originally Posted by GRUflyer
But NZ has a far superior onboard service and a much better capilarity out of AKL than LA.

If one is flying to anywhere else other than SYD, NZ become appealing because you can fly straight from AKL to smaller destinations across NZ.
One just has to look at O&D traffic between New Zealand and both Chile and Brasil. According to Chile's CAB, in 2013 traffic between New Zealand and Chile reached 81,693 pax. Whereas O&D traffic between New Zealand and Brasil only reached 22,387 pax. Besides, most Brazilian pax using the route are traveling to/from Australia where LAN offers good connectivity due to the recent codeshare agreement with QF, (LAN also offers connections via AKL to certain destinations in Australia on QF metal): http://www.lan.com/es_cl/sitio_perso...a-y-sudamerica


Originally Posted by GRUflyer
And I really hope the LA management is not so stiff as you suggest. Or just because GRU is their hub to Europe, you believe they should cancel the SCL-MAD non-stop?
Do you think it makes sense for LAN to launch an ultra long-haul route such as GRU-AKL/SYD which would only serve to cannibalize existing traffic on the SCL-AKL/SYD route when the traffic simply is not there to justify such a route? Your reference about the MAD route does not make any sense since there is very strong O&D between Spain and both Chile and Brasil, (LAN will indeed deploy the 787-9 on the SCL-MAD-FRA route next October).
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"O&D"?
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http://www.traveller.com.au/qantas-l...america-125k1l

"We are evaluating different alternatives," Mr Aylwin told The Australian Financial Review of LAN's plans. "The additional frequencies is something we are looking very closely at."
While the additional flights will be to LAN's Santiago hub, LATAM, which also owns Brazilian carrier TAM, has not ruled out adding flights from Australasia to Brazil in the future. "It is definitely one of the things we are evaluating constantly," Mr Aylwin said. "New technologies allow us to do different things we have done in the past."


Inbound tourism from South America has been growing at a rapid pace, albeit from low levels when compared with other countries.

Tourism Australia classifies Brazil as a "fast emerging" key market. It ranks as Australia's 25th-largest inbound market. In the 12 months to September, arrivals grew by 21.7 per cent to 41,500. The next largest South American market is Chile, with 17,000 arrivals and then Argentina with 13,000. Total arrivals from the region grew by 8 per cent to 90,000 last year.

Tourism New Zealand is also increasingly targeting Brazil, Chile and Argentina as growth markets. In 2013, just under 25,000 Latin American travellers visited New Zealand.
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