The company owns a mixed fleet composed of passenger aircraft with bellies for cargo transportation and 11 B767-300 freighter aircraft. While the regular strategy is to use the freighters as a complement to the passenger aircraft’ bellies, due to the current circumstances, along with maximizing the freighters’ use, the passenger aircraft will be used as freighters. This way, the company will be able to increase its capacity for its clients.
The two first international flights operated using this strategy took place in the Santiago (Chile) – Mexico City (Mexico) route in Boeing 787-900 aircrafts, totaling more than 80 tons of cargo—primarily salmon. The same solution took place in Peru’s domestic market, where an Airbus A320 aircraft was used as a freighter in the Lima-Iquitos route in order to stock this place, which depends on air transportation due to its difficult access by land or sea. By using seat containers, the company mainly transported perishable products, medicines and general cargo. LATAM Cargo will soon be replicated in other destinations.