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Founded | 1961 [1] | ||||||
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Hubs | São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília | ||||||
Fleet size | 164[2] | ||||||
Headquarters | São Paulo | ||||||
Website | [1] |
LATAM Airlines Brazil (Portuguese: LATAM Airlines Brasil) is Brazilian airline. LATAM was founded in 1961, but since 2000 it has grown fast. It's now the biggest airline in Brazil and all of Latin America.
TAM Airlines began in 1961, with the name Taxi Aereo Marília (Marília Air Taxi). In 1971, one of the airline's pilots buys 33% of the airline's shares. In 1976, the pilot founds an airline with the name Transportes Aereos Regionais (Regional Air Transport). [3] Both TAM and TAR Airlines were combined in 2000. [4] This formed the TAM Airlines. In 2010, LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines were also combined. They formed the LATAM Airlines Group. [5]