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Falklands MPA, German Lufthansa Airbus scheduled to arrive March 2025
The Lufthansa A350 at MPA back in 2021 A German airline Lufthansa aircraft is scheduled to land at Mount Pleasant Airport, Falkland Islands, next March, according to the air business site AeroRoutes. When this happens, it will be the second time a Lufthansa aircraft has landed at MPA.
Although there is no advance indication as to the purpose, passengers or cargo the aircraft will be carrying, back in 2021 an Airbus A350 travelled with scientists and researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research.
According to the report the Airbus A350/900 will be leaving Munich, 10 March 2025, at 07:20, flight LH2572, and should be arriving at MPA Falklands, at 19:00 in the evening.
She will be returning to Munich two days later, 12 March, departing from MPA at 19:00, arriving in Germany, 13:20 the following day.
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Read all commentsNot be long before Buenos Aires starts crying about it,
Oct 21st, 2024 - 08:59 am +3No Malv, they have not, nor will they.
Oct 21st, 2024 - 03:49 pm +2They have filed a flight plan with Argentinian air traffic control, which they are required to do as they are passing, and may have to divert to, in an emergency, Argentinian airspace.
Notifying Argentina you are flying past their airspace does not enhance their sovereignty claims in the S. Atlantic, it just reminds them they don’t control the airspace there.
Hence the whining.
Malvi
Oct 21st, 2024 - 04:29 pm +2After consideration, I believe you are making a fundamental mistake in your arguments. You seem to believe that if you can show that Argentina had a stronger “sovereignty claim” in October 1832 than Great Britain, somehow that means that sovereignty in 2024 would pass to Argentina. This is where you have made your error.
You are correct that the United Provinces claimed the islands in 1820, you are also correct that they endorsed a business by Luis Vernet in 1828-31.
You recognise that Britain had an earlier claim. particularly to West Falkland and also that Spain had a claim they did not relinquish until 1860s.
Three claims to the same territory.
You seem to believe that there could be some kind of retrospective 21st century assessment of those claims and whichever were stronger would somehow achieve sovereignty of the islands against the wishes of the inhabitants.
Can you imagine if that was the rules? Not a single territory on earth would not be challenged.
What you have failed to show is that Argentina or the UP exercised sovereignty in 1832. You are quite right, neither did Spain or the UK. So the territory was available to settled by anyone who could put a population on it.
Britain never recognised the Vernet business as an Argentine population, and it failed anyway.
Britain did recognise the attempt to send Mestevier as an Argentine population so immediately acted to stop it.
This is why Argentina made up the eviction myth claiming it was already exercising sovereignty and an Argentine population was evicted. You know this is false.
Trying to prove that either Britain, Spain or UP had a stronger “claim” is a futile waste of time. The truth is in 1832 none of them were exercising their claim. Therefore none had unequivocal sovereignty.
However, Britain has had unequivocal sovereignty for 200 years, a working population and
made no eviction of an Argentine population.
I think your life's work is a waste of your time Malvi.
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