Aerolineas Argentinas resumes flights with Air Force taking control of operations

Monday, November 14th 2011 - 20:36 UTC

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International flights by state-run carrier Aerolineas Argentinas resumed Monday after a weekend disruption over a labour dispute with comptrollers which the government of President Cristina Fernandez resolved by ordering the Air Force to take control of air operations. Read full article

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xbarilox
The Air Force... interesting, and she hated them so much :)
Nov 14th, 2011 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ElaineB
I think I will stick to LAN if they are skimping on maintenance.
Nov 14th, 2011 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
The are very close to not being able to land in the USA or EU because they have failed so many inspections...never fly them.
Nov 14th, 2011 - 11:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
Aero Argentinas is a zombie airline. They should let it fail and sell/resell the name to a local or foreign investor. In Brazil, they did the same with Varig Brasil (Once the proud of Brazil and Latin America) what is today just Varig, is a success.

Lan (Chilean/Peruvian) and TAM (Brazilian) are the best airlines in Latin America.
Nov 15th, 2011 - 12:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero601
@1

hated? no, she still does ! ;-)
Nov 15th, 2011 - 04:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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RedBaron
Is this not an example of Argentine provocation - placing the civil airline in the hands of the military? ;-)

Maybe it is the only way to keep the stock of pilots current with their licences and training (by placing them on the books of the airline, as they have no airworthy planes to fly in the FAA).
Alternatively, if military personnel are running the airline, this may be the way to keep Aerolinas' fares down - offering one-way tickets and no lifejackets...........!
Nov 15th, 2011 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero601
offering one-way tickets and no lifejackets...........!” wrong department, that would the Army's Intelligence in charge of cheap fares. :-)))
Nov 15th, 2011 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ManRod
”LAN (Chilean/Peruvian)“

Well, I will act like an argentine now:
”Are you trying to provoke? Since when is LAN (Lineas Aereas Nacionales) a peruvian company? They do also cover the peruvian market, same as they do with Argentina, Ecuador, partially Colombia. But they are not a peruvian company in general”

:P
Nov 15th, 2011 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
Since when is LAN (Lineas Aereas Nacionales) a peruvian company?

Since a Peruvian Pension fun bought almost halve of the shares and made the deal that LAN is Chilean and Peruvian (Peruvian government was also involved in the deal what happened around February 2010) You can search it up yourself. LAN is Chilean and Peruvian.
Have a nice day.
Nov 15th, 2011 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ManRod
you mean this one?

http://en.mercopress.com/2010/02/26/peruvian-private-pension-funds-purchase-lan-chile-shares

“...private pension funds, AFP, in Thursday auction of a 6.4% stake ”

Normally I consider you somebody quite balanced regarding economic background knowledge. But strangly, whenever it comes to chilean themes, you totally lose the balance. How come?
Since when is 6,4% stake “almost halve of the shares” ?

C0nsidering that logic, Apple is an American and Chilean company now (I own some share of them too *gg*)
Have a nice day too.
Nov 18th, 2011 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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