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Argentina planning tourist air tours of Antarctica beginning 2018
Argentina plans to organize tourist air tours to Antarctica beginning 2018, with the government's airline, LADE, according to official sources from the Tourism and Defense ministries. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe argies will abandon their attempted colonies on the British Antarctic territory well before 2018.
Jul 27th, 2016 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They plan to do this yet can't resupply their base there?
Jul 27th, 2016 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sure any 'tourist' will be glad to pay a huge amount of money to arrive at a base that has little to no food, and probably insufficient fuel to heat the place.
Or are the Argentines planning on keeping this afloat by having other countries (UK and Chile) constantly bail them out?
Added to this is the fact that the Argentines wouldn't be able to offer any kind of rescue service should anything go wrong (what with the weather changing rapidly and drastically without any notice), and would therefore once again be relying on either the British or the Chileans to bail them out.
I really doubt that the Argentine government will get any insurance to cover these flights, and any passenger would no doubt be told that their own travel insurance would also not cover it either that or the premiums would be through the roof.
It'll be interesting to see if this will actually happen or whether it's another case of the Argentine government just announcing stuff that sounds good but never materialises.
Will they be offering return tickets ?
Jul 27th, 2016 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just perhaps… .this is a new version of 'the disappeared'!
Jul 27th, 2016 - 04:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Looking forward to welcoming new residents down here..
@2 “.... the Argentine government just announcing stuff that sounds good but never materialises...”
Jul 27th, 2016 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Looking further into the question in the argie press, it seems that this business of commercial flights to the British Antarctic territory is only in the “let's think about it” stage.
Argentina should get permission from the UK to fly over our air space
Jul 28th, 2016 - 05:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't suppose that it's worth mentioning that Chile has been running civilian commercial flights to the same part of British Antarctica for several years.
Jul 28th, 2016 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or rather, “Antarctica” because neither the Chilean usurpers on King George Island nor the Argentine usurpers on Marambio are within the Antarctic Circle. Sort of like visiting Iceland and claiming you've been to the Arctic.
7- Hit the Nail on the Head! You have to go a bit further down the Peninsular to the main British Ant Survey Base at Rothera on Adelaide Is. before you are IN the Antarctic as such!
Jul 29th, 2016 - 01:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2
Jul 29th, 2016 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I'm sure any 'tourist' will be glad to pay a huge amount of money to arrive at a base that has little to no food, and probably insufficient fuel to heat the place.”
Look on the bright side for a tourist. There will be plenty of music coming from the base staff who will be busking, in the hope that the tourists bring them some food parcels.
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