LATAM Airlines Group has ordered ten B787-9s from Boeing (BOE, Washington National) with options for five more.
“This order will enable us to receive at least two aircraft of this model each year from 2025 until the end of the decade,” said Ramiro Alfonsín, Chief Financial Officer of the LATAM Airlines Group. It will potentially increase the group’s B787 fleet to 52 by 2030, up from 37 at the moment (ten B787-8s and twenty-seven B787-9s, all operated by Chile’s LATAM Airlines (LA, Santiago de Chile)).
The Group relisted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) last week. During an event on Wall Street, the company’s management said it has a secure order book of over 120 aircraft with deliveries set to run through 2030 (80% of which will come directly from Airbus and Boeing). However, the company also acknowledged the possibility that some of the incoming Boeing-manufactured widebodies could face delivery delays, due to the ongoing issues at the US company (including an ongoing strike of more than 33,000 machinists in the the Everett and Renton plants).
The ch-aviation fleets module shows LATAM Airlines Group also has thirteen A320-200Ns, seventy A321-200NXs, and five A321-200NY(XLR) on order from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac).
