LAN Argentina regional flights forced out of Buenos Aires metropolitan terminal
LAN Airlines announced that “due to a decision by the (Argentine) national aeronautical authorities,” the company has been forced to reschedule flights leaving from the Buenos Aires City Aeroparque Metropolitan airport bound for Sao Paulo and Santiago de Chile.
The flights being rescheduled are LA4540/LA4541 and LA4544/4545 (Brazil) and LA4638/4639 (Chile).
“The company regrets any inconveniences that the National Administration of Civil Aviation’s (ANAC) resolution 994/2012 may cause on the passengers,” a press release said.
The new resolution strips LAN Argentina of the rights granted to the company in March, 2010, allowing its regional flights to take off from the Aeroparque airport, like national airline such as Aerolineas and Austral companies do.
The new resolution from ANAC forbids LAN flights from flying to and from the Aeroparque airport.
The decision to discriminate Lan Airlines has been interpreted as another possible step in the Argentine government’s efforts to isolate and blockade the Falkland Islands, since Lan operating from Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile flies the only weekly link of the Islands with the South American conflict.
Last month Mercosur agreed to bar from its ports all vessels flying what it described as the ‘illegal’ Malvinas flag. The decision was taken at the Mercosur summit in Montevideo with the proposal presented by Uruguay in support of Argentina’s ‘legitimate sovereignty rights’ over the Islands and in coherence with what has been the standing policy of Latin American countries.
A similar attitude was expected to be discussed at the end of January when the Argentine president was scheduled to visit her Chilean counterpart Sebastian Piñera in Santiago. At the UN General Assembly President Cristina Fernandez mentioned Argentina was considering banning the weekly flight from Punta Areas that must cross Argentine airspace to reach the Falklands from Chile.
However the summit was postponed because of Cristina Fernandez thyroid surgery.
On Tuesday Foreign Secretary William Hague in an update report to Parliament warned the UK would resist any attempts to blockade the Falkland Islands and reiterated the Islanders’ right to self determination.
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If the Argentine Gvt. is pressing LAN to give up with their weekly flight to Falklands is a coward and abusive position that one day the history will charge you...
Conflict ?
Freudian slip mercopre$$ ???
:)
“Lan can have its landing slots back- AND MORE - at prime times at cheap rates...... just drop that MPN flight please.
If you dont drop the MPN flight - then Lan will increasing find itself financially penalized and screwed in Argentina”.
Blackmail- similar to Blackmail done against HamburgSud to make them drop their Falkands Container service last year!
Sad woman - all she can do is blackmail! It will all come back and bite her arse one day!
It will inconvenience us for a week or two until we get other arrangements into operation, thats all. But it will stop Arg passport holders ever visiting the Islands again,including Next of Kin families etc from ever visiting their war graves again!
Dark clouds sometimes have a silver lining.
Do you really want lots of Argentine passport holders tramping all over the place?
l don't.
Told you so months ago.........
Out here, in the real world, it's called “business”.
You scratch my back…………......… I scratch your back.
You better start “Thinking” about employing a lot of Saints to do your menial work…..
Yes everywhere business is reality- we certainly live in the real world here rather than the Kirschener fantasy one! and you scratch my back I scratch yours etc to an extent - but luckily the majority or the world does not sink to threats and straight blackmail to achieve their ambition!
As said though - it will piss us off a bit more, cause a few hiccups for a few weeks until the option is in place - then we will carrry on totally seperate to- and not giving a damn for- South America!
Tell me who would be the long term winners ?
We will see what happens. Plenty of good Chileans here - and they will still be able to get home for hols without going to Europe first- dont worry! We might even arrange for them all to have British citizenship as well anyway!
If it happens - it will be the Arg passport holders living here who could find themselves on a very dodgy wicket - unless they renounced their passport and took out a British one of course!
lf they obtained British passports, do you see them ever returning to Argentina?
The gateway to the world is open to them, then.♥
If you follow the logic, Cristina would be forced to ban TAM to (considering TAM been “acquired” by LAN)
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