MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Lan back in the air in Argentina after yielding to ground services boycott
Chilean company Lan Airlines said on Saturday it was “gradually resuming” domestic and international flights in Argentina that it had suspended on Friday due to a conflict with state-run Intercargo company. Intercargo said it had re-established the service to Lan after the airline agreed to cancel a debt. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIf you can't see how bad this is going to be for Argentina then you have to be deluded.
May 20th, 2013 - 05:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0The government and its controlled entities are kicking so many own goals that blind Freddy can see what's happening.
On a side note, this is a glaring reason why the Falkland Islands will never believe anything the Argentine government says. Ignoring the rule of law is hand in hand with the erosion of checks and balances. Not one will trust Argentina when this sort of industrial blackmail happens.
Intercargo was nationalized in 2012 and has control over all ground services in all Argentine airports. As happened with nationalized Aerolineas Argentinas, the company fell under the control of La Campora which is the youth militant group headed by the son of President Cristina Fernandez, Maximo Kirchner
May 20th, 2013 - 06:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0well, well, well................are we suprised that the corruption and ignoring the rule of law would lead striaght to the top??
No, not really.............
I remember Mrs Thatcher sorting out a set of unions that held the country to ransom.
May 20th, 2013 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Though this is a bit different ...
... Argentina seems to be holding itself to ransom.
With its hands around its own throat, it is croaking:
“If we all just choke off this throat of ours .. at least us legs should be able to walk away from these little problems”.
An elementary principle of reciprocity tells Chile to apply to Aerolineas Argentinas the same treatment LAN is receiving from the usually unfriendly neighbor.
May 20th, 2013 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Philippe
obviously no Argies to give their well constructed views, what can one say really.
May 20th, 2013 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They must be the dumbest of the dumdest coming on here and trying to enlighten us with their garbage.
Well it worked with the airline, what next? Shipping!
May 20th, 2013 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You only have to look at the profiles of the children running La Camping-it-up to realise that The Dark Country is well and truly fucked for a long time yet.
May 20th, 2013 - 05:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A great victory for Cristina, and for the 29 year old woman activist that the last article said was in charge of this sector =) Nobody over on that thread seemed to know if she was pretty though lol=)
May 20th, 2013 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pretty awful...
May 20th, 2013 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,nmmmm
still
the back up was on standby just in case ..lol.
British_Kebab
May 20th, 2013 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes it is a massive victory to mug the only company that has invested in the domestic airline industry.
$18 million... that will keep Aerolineas in the air for 9 days (they lose $2 million a day). Lan has $4 billion of investments planed over the next 2 year, I guess they might review how much of that goes in to Argentina. That sounds like a victory in the style of one of those goals Scotland are so good at...own goals...1998 world cup opener, minute 73
Just in case you forgot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ffzKGai-w
#10 Well at least we got to score a goal in a game with Brazil lol =) When did Chile last do well against Brazil?
May 21st, 2013 - 08:54 am - Link - Report abuse 011
May 21st, 2013 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When we took over TAM and created the largest airline in Latin America last year ;)
12 Condorito
May 21st, 2013 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well said.
Good one, Condor.
May 21st, 2013 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I meant at the football. Apart from that own goal we were neck and neck with the mighty Brazil for most of the match, not bad for a small country with a supposedly rubbish team =)
May 21st, 2013 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0pwnd by Condorito!
May 22nd, 2013 - 12:36 am - Link - Report abuse 05,000 innocent people held hostage. without yDo you think if they were just flying through to
May 22nd, 2013 - 04:35 am - Link - Report abuse 02On Friday a judge granted Lan an injunction ordering Intercargo to continue providing services while he considered the complaint.
May 23rd, 2013 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Intercargo suspended services for Lan despite the court decision, DyN said.”
Typical Argentines, banging on about everyone else being illegal (who don't break any laws) whilst actually breaking the laws themselves.
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