The first of eight Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) jetliners ordered by TAM Airlines, Brazil’s largest airline, left Paine Field for Sao Paulo last week. TAM is the first Latin American airline to operate the 777-300ER, the world’s largest, long-range, twin-engine jetliner, powered by General Electric’s GE-90 Series engines. The delivery also marks TAM’s first acquisition of a new Boeing airplane.
American Airlines reshuffled its reservations department with modern and comfortable infrastructure in the Dominican Republic, becoming the only airline with operations in the country which has a department dedicated solely to reservations for the Dominican market.
Passengers booking travel on Air Jamaica can now benefit from special fares from various Air Jamaica gateways in North America for travel to Jamaica and the airline’s other Caribbean destinations this fall.
On August 25, 2008 Surinam Airways flight nr. from the Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport in Surinam arrived at the Queen Beatrix International Airport in Aruba. Though Surinam Airways is a regular and long time guest at the Aruba airport, flight nr. was a very special one for the Aruba Airport Authority as new transit procedures for non US destinations to US destinations were introduced.
Paul Pennicook, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Air Jamaica, has resigned effective Sept. 30, according to Air Jamaica. Pennicook’s future plans have not yet been announced.
Second-quarter profit at Groupe Aeroplan fell 36 percent as its cost of rewards and other expenses rose, the consumer loyalty operator said. Aeroplan, best known as Air Canada’s frequent flier program operator, earned CAD$31.5 million ($29.7 million), down from year-earlier CAD$49.5 million.