Interview with Daniel Leng new Executive Director of LATAM Ecuador

Today exclusively I bring to all of you the interview with Daniel Leng, new Executive Director of LATAM Ecuador, where we will talk about aviationón, the expectations for the 2018 for Ecuador, the plans of the airlineínea and other topics of interestés clearly aeroáuseful.

Accepting the invitationón of the aerolínea, we met in the Quito airport to be able to talk about various topics of interestés mediático, but mainly about aviationón and the results, cóhow the business has been developed for the airlineíline from the 2017 and the issue of maintenance of Boeing engines 787 Dreamliner.

The interview

You can see the full interview by following this link. https://youtu.be/Fi554BBvKq0 oh weékeeping him goingón:

Key points

• LATAM is Ecuadorá quite well and within the group there isá investing in the airlineínea.
• There is a lot of faith in Ecuador as país and LATAM Ecuador isá in a positionóvery positive to grow.
• the airínea has the greatest punctuality in the market and is the úonly member of the oneworld alliance always trying to improve Ecuador's connectivity
• The 2017 it was a goodñor with good results and it was challenging for the airlineínea by the competition.
• in March 2018 brought a sixth grandfatherón so that it operates regularly in Ecuador and isán committed to growth.
• The 2018 spaghettién it has been a goodñor and have maintained sustained growth.
• Frequencies have been increased to Cuenca from Quito and from Quito to Guayaquil.
• the airínea evalúConstantly new opportunities to improve connectivity.
• It has been studied to start flights at Blanket and Coca.
• A few years agoñLATAM Ecuador seeks to increase its participationón towards Galápaid.
• It's unfortunate for the airline.íIt is believed that the destination to Manta has been rejected, aúIt is not known whyé.
• They have been working on the routes to Manta for several months, Coca and Galápaid.
• It isá looking to bring a ségreat grandfatherón, what generates más de 100 new job positions.
• The Boeing engine 787 they have to be removed before normal maintenance hours and is what causes the current problems.
• La rotationón of engines is greater and this is something that affects everyone.
• Very Airbus A330 and a Boeing 747 Eastán leased to Wamos Air operating in Ecuador and Chile.
• Until the end of August and beginning of September, it is expected that this situation will be resolved.ón, but couldíto expand.
• The agreements of Open skies They are very important, and LATAM sees it very favorably, what to bringá incentives for new routes and frequencies.
• Competition is always good and forces us to be moreábe smart everyone.
• With the differentiating factors of LATAM (quality of service, product, security) they hope that passengers will continue to prefer them.