Cabotage flights: 11 provinces require a negative test for passengers

Luis Ceriotto

10/21/2020 21:02

• Clarín.com

• Economy

Updated 10/22/2020 7:02 AM

Shortly before 6 in the morning of this Thursday,

, after having been suspended for

.

The

of the airport of Ezeiza, which had been

during still unfinished construction of the new terminal will be for a

few months the replacement of the Metropolitan Aeroparque, in turn closed for renovation until February.

There the passengers of the first

flight boarded

, bound for

one of the few provinces that will not require additional requirements to those already established by the

.

Shortly before 8 o'clock another flight will leave for

.

These two provinces, like others such as

, decided not to ask for any special requirements from passengers coming from the AMBA.

Instead, there are eleven provinces that decided to require that

undergo

to show that they are

for Covid-19.

In some states, the test must be done

and in others,

Cabotage flights will be restricted in a first stage to workers considered "essential", people who must undergo medical treatment with their companions, and a few other categories.

Among the requirements that Transportation requires, the most relevant is the Circulation Permit that is issued over the Internet and that can be stored in the Care application. 

According to consultations made between the airlines, among the provinces that will add the requirement of a test are

(for flights to

) and

which will request a "Negative" PCR, done

in advance.

Other provinces ask for the same test, but done

in advance

They are

.

Two flights that were scheduled to Corrientes and Posadas for this Thursday have

.

These definitions by the governors were just sent to the

(ANAC) throughout Wednesday.

And in the case of Aerolineas Argentinas, they are going to force the state airline to 

several of the flights

, to give passengers time to take the tests.

The requirement also supposes an extra cost of approximately

.

In the middle of that uneven and heterogeneous map of authorizations there are at least two details that the governments decided at the last minute

of the return of the flights.

Airlines has scheduled a flight to Tucumán for Thursday afternoon and, given the demand of the

government for

a test 72 hours in advance, the tourism entity of that province would have decided to mobilize its own resources so that these tests are carried out

of the flight, once on Tucuman soil.

A similar measure would have been taken by

, governor of

: passengers who board for

tomorrow at 9:00 am

will be able to take the tests

.

What provinces do not require testing?

In principle, according to the same aeronautical sources, they are

and, these sources assure, neither would a test be required to enter

(despite the fact that the same province requires it at the airport of Trelew).

The almost exclusive airline is

with more than

scheduled for the next two weeks throughout the country.

In the airline chaired by Pablo Ceriani they took for granted, on Wednesday afternoon, that they were going to have to

several of the first flights to the provinces that now added requirements.

In some cases, with postponements of up to

.

Aerolineas issued a statement where it says that all destinations (including those that do not have greater demands today) must be checked on the company's website and entering

to obtain the circulation permit.

On Friday he also has requested authorization to start flying the "low cost"

, from the

airport

with a first flight to

Another airline that requested authorization to carry out domestic flights again is

also from El Palomar, but as of November. 

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