Falklands MPA, German Lufthansa Airbus scheduled to arrive March 2025

Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:33 UTC

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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. Read full article

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Esteban Domingo Fernandez
Not be long before Buenos Aires starts crying about it,
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Malvinense 1833
The company has already requested the corresponding permit from Buenos Aires.
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Juan Cervantes
Yeah, if you say so Malvi, lol
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Pugol-H
No Malv, they have not, nor will they.

They 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.
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Juan Cervantes
Yet again, Malvi getting his facts wrong,
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Monkeymagic
Malvi

After 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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