Karina Niebla
03/20/2021 21:03
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/20/2021 9:03 PM
Countries that return to total or partial isolation, the announcement of a second wave and the fear of more contagious variants of the coronavirus.
One year after the Mandatory Preventive Social Isolation (ASPO) was declared, the
cancellations of flights to
and from Argentina were brought forward.
An anticipation crying out for those who fear the entry of new strains of Covid-19.
This Thursday, from Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 they had anticipated that the flight reductions would take effect in April.
Is that Administrative Decision 219/2021, published on March 13, established that the National Directorate of Migration, the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) and the Ministry of Health should determine
the flight schedules and the number of passengers
that would enter to the country.
But Aerolineas Argentinas and Latam have already begun to cancel.
So far, 68 Aerolineas Argentinas flights have been suspended: 40 corresponding to March and 28 to April.
Of those canceled this month, five were leaving from Ezeiza in recent days, bound for Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Florianópolis.
One of them was actually going to leave this Saturday at 7.30.
But it did not happen.
From the company they explained that
the passengers of these flights are relocated
on other dates, or on the same day if that destination had more than one daily frequency.
The rest of the flights in March of Aerolineas Argentinas that were suspended were to start between this Sunday and Wednesday 31st, bound for the aforementioned Brazilian cities, as well as Santiago de Chile, Miami and Madrid.
These are the planes from Ezeiza to Rio de Janeiro on March 22, 27 and 29;
to Saint Paul of 21, 23, 24, 26 and 30;
to Florianópolis on 24 and 31;
and to Santiago on the 23rd, 25th and 30th. As the aircraft did not depart, logically, the return flights scheduled for those same days were also canceled.
Neither will the flight to Madrid this Sunday depart from Buenos Aires, nor the one that would go to Miami on Saturday the 27th. Even the plane from Madrid to Buenos Aires on Tuesday 23rd, and the one from Miami to Buenos Aires on Sunday 28th, was canceled.
For April there are more cancellations with dates
: 3, 5 and 11 to and from Rio de Janeiro;
6, 8 and 9 to and from San Pablo;
1, 6, 8 and 11 to and from Santiago de Chile;
2, 8 and 11 to Miami;
and 7 to Madrid.
In addition, the flights that would come from Miami on the 3rd, 9th and 12th, and the one that would arrive from Madrid on the 8th, were suspended.
Latam has also already canceled flights since the beginning of this week
: it reduced its operations by 30% to Santiago de Chile, 70% to São Paulo and 30% to Lima.
Thus, it went from ten to eight weekly frequencies to Santiago de Chile, from ten to seven to Lima, and from five to three to San Pablo.
With this scheme, Latam flies once a day to Lima and Santiago de Chile, a city that has an extra frequency on Fridays.
To San Pablo, meanwhile, there are flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
It is not the first measure in this regard in recent weeks.
Already on February 28, the frequency of flights between Argentina and Brazil
had been cut in half
.
A restriction that was increased by 20% with Administrative Decision 219.
In that resolution, the 30% reduction in frequencies to Mexico and Europe was maintained, and flights to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and Chile were reduced by 30%.
In addition to increasing the reduction to Brazil by 20%, another 10% was added to that of the United States, whose frequencies were already limited by 30%.
Today there are about 110,000 Argentines abroad, according to official data.
Of these, 27,000 are tourists, that is, they will
have to return to the country in the coming weeks or months
.
The borders are still open but, in the event that the health situation becomes even more complicated, it will be the passengers themselves who will have to bear all the costs that the situation entails: sources from the National Directorate of Migration confirmed to
Clarín
that
there will be no flights from repatriation
.
397,487 Argentines and residents were repatriated on special flights
from March 13 to October 29, 2020. But from September 7, Argentines who travel abroad must complete an affidavit in which
they are responsible for the consequences of traveling. in pandemic
.
It is that taking charge of their return means an important cost to the Government not only in terms of tickets, but also in
coordination and logistics
, indicated the same sources.
However, in the face of force majeure, the assistance program for Argentines abroad continues to operate.
