03/12/2021 6:31 AM
Clarín.com
Trips
Updated 03/12/2021 6:49 AM
After a closed year, first due to the quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, and then due to remodeling and expansion works, next Monday, March 15,
the Jorge Newbery metropolitan airport
(Aeroparque)
will reopen
, with some news, such as the return of regional flights and, in addition to the Aerolineas Argentinas operation,
the debut at the terminal of the two low cost companies that operate in the country
: Jetsmart and Flybondi, which have already presented their service programming.
In principle, Jetsmart announced that it reorganized its flight schedule and will
increase the frequencies to the main destinations
, while maintaining the offer on its seasonal routes: Córdoba-Bariloche, Mendoza-Bariloche and Buenos Aires-El Calafate.
"The new schedule of itineraries with the incorporation of Aeroparque will encourage the development of regional economies thanks to a better and broader proposal of daily frequencies and schedules," said Darío Ratinoff, commercial manager of Jetsmart in Argentina.
Jetsmart scheduled 840 flights across the country starting in March.
The company, which averaged 92% punctuality in the first two months of the year, planned a total of
840 flights throughout the country
since March, which from the 15th will include several new features per route:
Buenos Aires - Córdoba:
to its 10 weekly flights it will add another two daily from Monday to Friday, and it will maintain its daily services on Saturdays and Sundays, totaling 12 weekly flights.
Buenos Aires - Mendoza: it will go
from 9 weekly flights to 12, with a double offer from Monday to Friday and daily flights on Saturdays and Sundays.
Buenos Aires -
Neuquén
:
of five weekly flights that were scheduled for the first week of March, seven will operate (one daily flight).
Airbus a320 neo by JetSmart
Buenos Aires -
Salta
: it
will maintain its daily flight, from Monday to Sunday.
Buenos Aires -
Tucumán
: it will
keep its five weekly frequencies, from Monday to Friday and for some special dates on Sundays.
Buenos Aires -
Iguazú
: it
will go from four to five weekly flights, with special reinforcements for Easter, when it will reach 11 services in the week.
Buenos Aires - Bariloche:
the star route of summer 2021 will continue to operate 10 flights a week, with special reinforcements for Easter.
Jetsmart crew and members of the Red Cross aboard the plane.
Photo: Jetsmart.
Buenos Aires - El Calafate:
this route, which the company inaugurated in the summer season, will have special reinforcements for Easter, and then it will continue on a weekly basis.
Buenos Aires -
Ushuaia
: it
will maintain two weekly flights, on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
The company also announced that in March it will continue to operate
federal routes
(bypassing Buenos Aires), such as Mendoza-Bariloche;
Córdoba-Bariloche;
Salta-Neuquén and Neuquén-Rosario, thus totaling 13 cabotage routes that are added to its offer of international flights, to Santiago de Chile.
Flybondi will begin flying to all its domestic destinations on Tuesday, March 16.
Photo: Flybondi.
Aeroparque, Flybondi base
For its part, Flybondi, which inaugurated the “low cost era” in the country in January 2018, announced that it will begin flying from Aeroparque to all its national destinations on March 16, and will install its main base of operations and maintenance facilities there. .
From this terminal it will connect with its 12 national destinations to which it has been flying since last December, and during March it will offer more frequencies in several of its destinations with the following weekly programming: Bariloche, 10 frequencies;
Cordoba, 5;
Jujuy and Salta, 4 each;
Iguazú, Corrientes, Mendoza, and Posadas, 3 and Tucumán, 3 each;
Santiago del Estero, Trelew and Neuquén, 2 weekly frequencies each.
Flybondi operates two Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft and expects to add the third in the second quarter of the year
"In addition to the performance of recent months, with a high occupancy level and a 91% punctuality rate in February, we believe that the Aeroparque operation will allow us to
maintain our commitment to connectivity
with destinations and provide passengers with an experience simple, agile travel and always with the most convenient rates ”, said Mauricio Sana, CEO of Flybondi.
The company today has two Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft and expects to add the third in the second quarter of the year.
In addition, it plans to resume its regional flights (to Brazil and Paraguay) in July.
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