LAN Completes Installation of Winglets to Boeing 767 Fleet

LAN Airlines has finished the installation of winglets - high-tech devices which are attached to airplane wings in order to reduce their aerodynamic drag - on all of its existing long-haul, Boeing 767 fleet, with a US$80 million investment.

This initiative has allowed the airline to attain an efficiency of approximately 4% in the use of fuel by the fleet and, therefore, a reduction of the airline’s CO2 emissions.

By year’s end, the airline projects a reduction of some 113,000 tons of CO2 just by implementing this solution. In 2010, this measure allowed LAN to reduce its CO2 emissions by more than 93,000 tons.

All future Boeing 767 aircraft added to LAN’s long-haul fleet will incorporate this technology.

LAN’s Vice President of Services and Operations Enrique Elsaca said, “We are happy to have been able to successfully install winglets in all 39 of our Boeing 767 long-haul aircraft.” Elsaca added that “this process marks an important milestone for the Company, as the installation was done at LAN’s maintenance base in Santiago, Chile, in compliance with the highest standards of the global airline industry.”

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