The LATAM Airlines Group formed from the merger of LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines and today remains a major player in South American aviation. LAN Airlines was founded in Chile in 1929, and it ...

LAN, the Chilean flag carrier, completed its takeover of TAM, the biggest airline in Brazil, last week to create a new aviation giant. LATAM, as the company will be known—rather conveniently ...

In the past five years, LAN and TAM have alternated back and forth between first and second place in the “Best Airline in South America” category. In 2009 and 2010, LAN won first place and TAM ...

Beginning Tuesday Lan Airlines resumes flying a skeleton national and international schedule out of a tent at the Santiago airport, according to a short notice from the Chilean flag carrier company.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said the fine of LATAM unit LAN related to "improper payments it authorized during a dispute between the airline and its union employees in Argentina".