Tag: Aerolineas Argentinas

• Friday, March 2nd 2012 - 21:33 UTC

  Any negotiations “must start from a position of trust” Falklands tells Argentina

  

  Negotiations must start from a position of trust and “it is hard to trust a Government who so easily break their word, and who deny our right to exist as a people”, said Falklands lawmaker Roger Edwards in response to the announcement by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on direct air-links to the Falklands.

• Friday, March 2nd 2012 - 05:06 UTC

  Falklands distrust to Argentine proposal, but recall 1999 deal is ‘three sided’

  

  Falkland Islanders reacted with skepticism and further distrust to the latest announcements by Argentine president Cristina Fernandez regarding air links with Argentina, while Falklands’ elected lawmakers said the proposal was too ‘muddled’ and with errors for the local government to respond.

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 22:48 UTC

  UK expects Argentina to honour accords and refers any flights’ discussions to the Falklands’ government

  

  The UK expects Argentina to honour its commitments under the 1999 agreement allowing for flights to the Falkland Islands from Chile and insisted that any discussions on flights were a matter for the Falkland Islands government.

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 22:38 UTC

  Argentina wants to review 1999 accord with Aerolineas direct flights Buenos Aires/Falklands

  

  President Cristina Fernandez said Argentina will seek to re-negotiate the 1999 accord with the UK which allows for a weekly flight connecting the Falklands Islands and Chile, and replace it with three schedules a week but from Buenos Aires and in the country’s flag carrier, Aerolineas Argentinas.

• Friday, February 3rd 2012 - 18:01 UTC

  Aerolíneas receives a daily government support of over 2 million dollars

  

  Argentina’s flag carrier ended the last twelve months with a drop in the number of passengers transported, totalling 6.017.886, which is 5.97% less than in 2010. However income from the sale of tickets reached 1.334 billion dollars, which is 14% higher, according to the latest numbers available.

• Monday, January 23rd 2012 - 04:12 UTC

  Foreign airlines in Argentina told to privilege local service-contractors and suppliers

  

  Fifteen foreign airlines operating from Argentina will have to report to the powerful Home Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno a proposal to reduce their US dollars overseas remittances particularly to suppliers and services contracted overseas. It is estimated that these airlines remit a billion US dollars annually.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2011 - 14:28 UTC

  Argentina’s main airports activity back to normal, except for Aerolineas

  

  Argentina’s flag carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas flights were still backed up Wednesday morning, due the weekend’s union conflicts, in addition to the volcanic ash cloud spewed by Chile’s Pueyhue volcano last week.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2011 - 21:52 UTC

  Flights disruptions and delays continue in Buenos Aires main airports

  

  Cancellations and more delays persisted Tuesday at Buenos Aires main airports as Aerolineas Argentinas flights suffered further setbacks to the service. The administrators of metropolitan Aeroparque and Ezeiza international airport, Aeropuertos Argentinas 2000 said that flights “were resuming, albeit slowly”.

• Monday, November 14th 2011 - 20:36 UTC

  Aerolineas Argentinas resumes flights with Air Force taking control of operations

  

  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.

• Monday, October 3rd 2011 - 22:08 UTC

  Aerolíneas Argentinas among the top short list of money loosing air carriers

  

  Aerolíneas Argentinas is estimated to have lost in the last twelve months 486 million dollars which puts her among the air carriers with greatest losses in the world. Only Air India, also government managed, but with 30.000 staff (three times her Argentine counterpart) dilapidated 1.2 billion dollars and Kuwait Airways, 564 million dollars