Tag: Ezeiza airport

• Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 19:41 UTC

  One person killed, over 110,000 left without electricity in storm-hit Buenos Aires

  

  One woman was killed and over 110,000 households in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) were left with no electricity on Wednesday morning as heavy rains hit the Argentine capital and its surrounding areas, leading to the delay or cancellation of some 60 passenger flights among other nuisances such as flooded streets.

• Friday, February 17th 2023 - 06:50 UTC

  Uruguayan plane crashlands in Argentina, both occupants survive

  

  Both occupants of an Uruguayan single-engined Cessna C-208 Caravan Cargo plane that made an emergency landing in the Argentine town of Berisso escaped with just minor injuries, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Qantas announces historic nonstop repatriation flight from Buenos Aires

  

  Australia's flag carrier Qantas is planning a historic nonstop repatriation flight from Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport across the Southern Pole aboard a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, it was announced.

• Wednesday, July 7th 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  Argentine authorities evaluating new cap to airborne arrivals after July 9

  

  The Government of Argentina is said to be considering a gradual reopening of its borders after the controversies erupted from its decision to impose a cap of 600 airborne passengers per day through the Ezeiza international airport.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  Argentine billionaire Eurnekian will erect a statue of Diego Maradona at Ezeiza airport

  

  Argentine billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian is preparing to fulfil an old promise to the late football icon Diego Maradona by erecting a statue of the player at the country’s main airport. Eurnekian, founder of Corporacion America Airports and one of the country’s top businessmen, announced the plan in a note of condolences published in newspaper La Nacion on Friday.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentina implements additional controls for Covid-19 at Ezeiza airport

  

  The Argentine government has started to implement additional controls to identify potential cases of coronavirus in flights from Italy, where the number of Covid-19 infections keeps increasing. Additionally, the first case confirmed in South America has been a Brazilian businessman who for work reasons visited the north of Italy.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 06:21 UTC

  Argentine police arrest four suspects linked to the gang that killed an English tourist

  

  Argentine authorities said on Monday they had identified suspects in the shooting death of a British tourist killed in an armed robbery attempt outside a luxury Buenos Aires hotel over the weekend.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Malvinas “Virgin of Lujan” image finally arrives to Buenos Aires

  

  An image of Argentina Patroness, the Virgin of Lujan which was left behind by the Argentine soldiers at the end of the Falklands/Malvinas war, and was recently returned by the United Kingdom and blessed by Pope Francis in the Vatican, finally arrived in Buenos Aires early morning Monday, 37 years after the conflict was over.

• Friday, July 12th 2019 - 16:44 UTC

  First hurdle passed for LATAM Argentina to serve Miami with Chilean planes

  

  Argentina's National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) Thursday agreed with its Chilean counterpart (DGAC) to allow LATAM aircraft under Chilean registration to fly the Ezeiza-Miami route with an Argentine crew on behalf of LATAM Argentina. The lease is yet to be authorised at higher levels.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  American Airlines launches nonstop flight between Los Angeles and Buenos Aires

  

  American Airlines will launch its first-ever nonstop flights between Los Angeles International Airport and Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires, as part of a broader expansion in service to Mexico and South American destinations.