TAM Receives Second Boeing 777; Fleet Now Has 123 Aircraft
November 24 2008 - 8:01AM
PR Newswire (US)
New plane is operating on the route between Sao Paulo and
Frankfurt, Germany SAO PAULO, Brazil, Nov. 24
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TAM S.A. (BOVESPA: TAMM4; NYSE: TAM)
received a Boeing 777-300ER, the second of eight total aircraft of
this model acquired by the company. Captain David Barioni Neto,
President of TAM, and Commander Fernando Sporleder Junior, the
company's Vice President of Operations, received this B777 directly
from Boeing's factory in Seattle and both piloted the aircraft to
Sao Paulo. (Logo:
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operating the route between Sao Paulo and Frankfurt, Germany, with
this new aircraft, which has a more spacious cabin, three seat
classes and a capacity of 365 passengers. The route between Sao
Paulo and Santiago, Chile is currently operating six days per week
with the new plane. Due to its greater energy efficiency, as well
as allowing a reduction of operating costs because it consumes less
fuel, the B777-300ER emits less harmful gas into the environment.
Currently, after returning two MD-11s, TAM's fleet now has 123
aircraft, 117 Airbus models (17 A319s, 81 A320s, 3 A321s, 14 A330s
and 2 A340s), 2 B777-300ERs, 3 B767-300s and one MD-11. The fleet's
average age was reduced to 5.9 years. For Captain Barioni, "these
acquisitions reinforce our policy of operating a fleet with a low
average age, assuring greater comfort for passengers, aiding in our
search for Service Excellence, one of the three fundamental pillars
of the company's actions, together with Technical-Operational
Excellence and Management Excellence." Since the beginning of 2008,
the company has operated the domestic market with a monofleet, made
up exclusively of Airbus aircraft. TAM has a consistent and
flexible long-term fleet plan to sustain expansion in the
international and domestic markets. The estimate for the end of
2013 is to have 151 planes in operation.
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DATASOURCE: TAM S.A. CONTACT: Libano Miranda Barroso, TAM Investor
Relations, +011-55-11-5582-9715, fax, +011-55-11-5582-8149, Web
site: http://www.tam.com.br/
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