02/18/2021 6:01 AM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 02/18/2021 6:01 AM
Aerolineas Argentinas
and
JetSmart,
two of the three airlines that currently operate domestic flights from Ezeiza, already have authorization to sell flights that take off from the other metropolitan station,
Aeroparque Jorge Newbery
.
It will be from March
16.
The departure order was a technical note issued by the
National Civil Aviation Administration
(ANAC), which establishes that as of 10 pm on March 15, after a year without activity, the airport that had come to operate will resume operation. the largest flow of passengers in the country.
In internal communication A303 / 21, the ANAC establishes that the renovation works of the Aeroparque, which has been closed since the middle of last year, will end
at 10 p.m. on March 15.
But while Aerolíneas will be able to sell
both domestic and international flights
, in the case of JetSmart it will only be able to operate from Aeroparque
some domestic flights
.
"We already have authorization to sell from Aeroparque," JetSmart spokesmen said.
The international flights of this airline that belongs to the US fund Indigo Partners
will continue to depart from Ezeiza
, official sources assured.
The third airline that performs internal flights is
Flybondi
, which this week is incorporating the second aircraft in its fleet (it has three in total).
"
Cabotage flights from Aeroparque
will appear on the Web shortly
," anticipated sources from this airline, which controls the Cartesian investment fund, also from the United States.
Over the last decade, Aeroparque had concentrated the largest amount of passenger flow until just the year before the pandemic: in 2019, after a series of measures by the Macri government to lighten Aeroparque flights in favor of Ezeiza For the first time in many years this station had more passengers:
12.7 million
, against
12.3 million
of Jorge Newbery.
With the new government, the idea that had prevailed during Cristina Kirchner's second term of transforming Aeroparque into a regional "hub" was resumed, with Aerolineas Argentinas as the
exclusive protagonist.
The Brazilian airline
Gol,
which has a codeshare agreement with Aerolíneas,
will also form part of this hub of flights to neighboring countries and the region
.
According to official sources, JetSmart and Flybondi will only be able to make international flights
from Ezeiza
.
"It is the option they have," added the sources.
But in the two "low cost" airlines,
which were already forced to vacate their operations at the El Palomar airport
, they would be preparing administrative and
even judicial
claims
in order to access the quoted international "moorings" of the Buenos Aires station.
In the reopening of Aeroparque,
LATAM Argentina
will not be either
, the former LAN Argentina that for 15 years positioned itself as a
tough competitor
of Aerolineas: even without the number of planes or routes that the flag line operates, LATAM had a floor of
20%
share in the cabotage market.
And although for many years the company that controls the Chilean Cueto family showed a particular
resilience
to remain in the country (as when in 2013 it
resisted the order of the Executive Power to vacate the hangar that it had built in Aeroparque)
, with the pandemic they decided to
leave On your own:
Following the closure announcement in July last year, they just reported that more than 1,500 of their 1,700 employees accepted voluntary retirement.