LAM (airline)

LAM
IATA code :	TM
ICAO code :	LAM
Call sign :	MOZAMBIQUE
Founding:	1936 (as DETA )
Seat:	Maputo , Mozambique
Turnstile :	Maputo airport
Home airport :	Maputo airport
Company form:	Limited
IATA prefix code :	068
Management:	António Pinto de Abreu ( CEO )
Frequent Flyer Program :	Flamingo Club
Fleet size:	4th
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.lam.co.mz

Former logo of the Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique

LAM , formerly Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM), is the national airline of Mozambique , based in Maputo and based at Maputo Airport . It bears the addition of Mozambique Airlines in English and A Companhia Moçambicana in Portuguese .

history

The airline was founded in August 1936 under the name DETA - Direcçâo de Exploração de Transportes Aéreos as a department of the authority for railways, ports and airlines by the Portuguese colonial government. Flight operations began on December 22, 1937.

After independence, the company was renamed LAM - Mozambique Airlines on November 19, 1980. Until 1998 it was a state company. On December 23, 1998, it was converted into a limited company. The state had a share of 80%, the employees 20%. At the end of 1999 the company was confirmed by law. LAM also became the sole owner of the airline Moçambique Expresso .

Initially, long-haul flights were flown with Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 , then a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 was leased from the French Union de Transports Aériens . The peak of business activity was in the early 1990s, when the DC-10 flew twice a week from Maputo to Lisbon and once a week the route Paris-Charles de Gaulle - Copenhagen - Berlin-Schönefeld . After the end of the leasing contract, the flights to Lisbon were carried out with one Boeing 747SP until two Boeing 767-200ERs were received from South African Airways . The 767's deployment was brief as management decided to focus on regional connections. The 767 were leased to South African Airways.

A planned expansion with two additional Boeing 737-700s that had already been ordered had to be canceled in September 2016. The airline was able to reduce some of its debts amounting to 160 million dollars, but the two Boeing planes would still not have been paid. Expansion of the route network has been stopped. Due to a lack of spare parts, part of the fleet had to be shut down in the spring of 2017, which caused the airline's financial situation to deteriorate and the situation in some cases was chaotic. In the past few years, the company has been run by different managements, some of which have become entangled in corruption. A former finance director has been convicted of this.

Destinations

From its home base in Maputo, Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique flies to other African destinations in addition to domestic destinations. In the meantime, Lisbon was also flown to, but in April 2011 the European Union imposed a flight ban to Europe for all airlines from Mozambique and justified this with considerable deficiencies at the supervisory authority. By May 2017, however, an improvement in flight safety in Mozambique was noted and the ban was lifted.

The resumption of a connection to Lisbon is planned for the beginning of 2020 (as of July 2019).

fleet

De Havilland DHC-8-400 of the LAM

As of March 2020, the Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique fleet consists of four aircraft with an average age of 13.2 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( Business / Economy )
Boeing 737-700	2		with winglets fitted	132 (12/120)
Embraer 190	2			94 (9/85)
total	4th	-

Incidents

• On November 29, 2013, an Embraer 190 crashed on Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique Flight 470 with 27 passengers and 6 crew members on board en route from Maputo to Luanda in the Bwabwata National Park in Namibia . During the flight, a change in the default altitude was made, which resulted in a seven-minute descent until it hit the ground. A deliberate crash of the flight captain is suspected as a possible cause .

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (English, Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} LAM cannot pay for the Boeing 737 that has been ordered , accessed on December 8, 2016
2. ↑ Government puts pressure on LAM , accessed April 18, 2017
3. ↑ Ch-aviation - Maputo court gives ex-LAM official suspended sentence (English), accessed on April 18, 2017
4. ↑ LAM Destinations (English), accessed on October 3, 2015
5. ↑ European Commission - - List of airlines that are prohibited from operating in the EU, accessed on October 3, 2015
6. ↑ LAM Mozambique eyes European return in late 1Q20. ch-aviation, July 10, 2019.
7. ↑ LAM - Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 9, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Boeing - Orders and Deliveries (English) accessed on October 3, 2015
9. ↑ lam.co.mz - Aircraft Fleet (English) accessed on December 27, 2014
10. ↑ lam.co.mz - LAM Introduces the Boeing 737-700NG into its Fleet ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on December 27, 2014 
11. ↑ Flight accident data and report for Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique flight 470 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)