Firstly, Tam airlines, has managed to incorporate a new route. It is the San Pablo-Bogota-Sao Paulo route. It will be a daily flight that will mark the return of Tam, Brazil’s largest airline, to Colombian routes. The new flight will be inaugurated on 19 December and will take place on a daily basis with an Airbus 320. The flight will transport passengers both economy class and first-class uniting these two important geographical centers.
The Vice President of sales of overhead line, Paulo Blanco, said that Bogota is the last big market of South America where still not we operated and has a strategic importance for Tam. Likewise, since 15 December, Tam will land one of its daily flights at the Jorge Newbery airport in Buenos Aires. Commonly, being an international flight, arriving in Argentina, landing at Ezeiza, however since mid-December will begin to do so at Aeroparque, facilitating their passengers the arrival and saving them much time. TAM operates daily flights to Buenos Aires on two frequencies, 9.05 and 18.05. Another novelty introduced this year the company was its merger with Lan, the Chilean national airline. This merger leaves both airlines a dominant position in that concentrated much of the aviation market. Finally, and as conclusion of one of the best years for the company, a few weeks ago, announced the completion of the first biofuel flight. Thus, Tam became the first airline in carrying out an ecological flight in the Latin American region.
Flight was completed by an Airbus A320 which can accommodate 175 passengers only manned by pilots. For 45 minutes the ship remained in the air over the Atlantic fed by a combination of kerosene and vegetable fuel made with a common plant in Brazil, meek pinion. This first flight has a significantly special load since it represents the beginning of a lot of work in terms of the development of the production of biodiesel. So far Brazil has about 60 thousand hectares of cultivation of pinion Manso, but expected that if such tests continue with the success that come taking, demand for this shrub will grow and with it its production generating an important industry in Brazil. This innovative fuel fabrication procedure is relatively simple, an oil which is then converted into biokerosene to be mixed in equal parts with traditional kerosene is obtained from seeds of the pinion. In addition the plant is easy to grow and do not need special lands.