ABSA Aerolinhas Brasileiras S/A

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LATAM Cargo Brasil (formerly TAM Cargo) is a

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based in

Campinas Campinas (, ''Plains'' or ''Meadows'') is a Brazilian municipality in São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region. According to the 2020 estimate, the city's population is 1,213,792, making it the fourteenth most populous Brazilian ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. It operates scheduled services within

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and between Brazil and the

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as well as charter services. Its main base is Viracopos International Airport. It is a sister company of

LATAM Cargo Chile LATAM Cargo Chile (formerly ''LAN Cargo S.A.'') is a cargo airline based in Santiago, Chile and the freight subsidiary of the LATAM Airlines Group. It is operating cargo flights within South America, to Europe and North America from its hubs at ...

and

LATAM Cargo Colombia LATAM Cargo Colombia (formerly known as ''Línea Aérea Carguera de Colombia S.A.'' or ''LANCO'' for short) is a Colombian cargo airline based in Bogotá with its main base at El Dorado International Airport. LANCO operated under its own brandin ...

History

The airline was established and started operations on June 2, 1995 as ''Brasil Transair - Transportes Charter Turismo''. In November 2001,

LAN Airlines LATAM Airlines Chile (formerly LAN Airlines and LAN-Chile) is an airline based in Santiago, Chile, one of the founders of LATAM Airlines Group, Latin America's largest airline holding company. The main hub is Arturo Merino Benítez Internationa ...

acquired a majority stake of the company, which was then renamed ABSA Cargo Airline and integrated into the LAN Chile Group. ABSA Cargo put its first

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into service in January 2002. It is owned by LAN Airlines (74%), Jochmann (13%) and TADEF (13%) and had 285 employees as of March 2007. On August 1, 2012, ABSA began trading as ''TAM Cargo'' after the absorption of TAM Linhas Aéreas by its parent LAN to form the LATAM Airlines Group. In May 2016, it has been rebranded to the current ''LATAM Cargo Brasil'' in line with

, the former LAN Cargo.

Destinations

LATAM Cargo Brasil serves the following:

Fleet

Current fleet

The LATAM Cargo Brasil fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2019):

Former fleet

As ABSA Cargo, they previously operated the following aircraft:

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External links

Official website
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