10,000 people will leave for the rest of the month in the United States

Argentina goes to United States they stay incessant despite the restrictions imposed by the government. It is only during the remainder of this month that some 10,000 people in this country, most with a direct destination to the city of Miami, where vaccination is activated for tourists arriving from abroad. Flights are mainly from Aerolineas Argentinas, which departs six times a week, but every day there is also at least one flight from an American airline (American Airlines, United, Delta), not counting the offer of regional flights with connection to the USA. . United States

Without counting the flights awaiting approval by the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC), there is already programmed 30 passenger flights to the United States, in planes carrying between 270 and 320 passengers. 25 of these flights are direct to Miami (17 from the airlines and eight from the US) and others are around Dallas, Houston and Atlanta.

For next month, despite the fact that airlines now have more severe restrictions on programming (the ANAC has moved from granting monthly permits to doing so week to week), only from from Aerolíneas there are already 7000 seats available to travel to Miami. And foreign airlines are also offering flights for the first few days of this month.

It is a type of tourism that we talk about in WhatsApp chats and on social networks, but that few operators in the sector want to discuss aloud.

“American Airlines flights are full. I’m looking these dayss for people who are going to be vaccinated and who have no room“A retail operator, a former employee of the US airline, told Clarín.

In the airlines, they also have that the Airbus A330, with 270 seats, they leave full for Miami. “Looks like a bus on a Friday at six in the afternoon. And these are flights that are prohibited for company employees: free places, which we call inside sublo, are now only available for domestic flights“, said a source close to what is happening at the national airline.

This Sunday alone, from Ezeiza, two flights will depart to Miami, one from Airlines and one from American, but there will also be three flights to Houston (United), Atlanta (Delta) and Dallas (American ). There will also be regional flights connecting to the United States from LATAM (Santiago de Chile) and Copa (Panama).

Airlines are the ones offering the most scheduled flights, with six weekly connections to Miami (daily except Tuesdays), followed by Americans (eight flights to Miami the rest of April, plus one confirmed flight to Dallas and more in the pipeline).

Not least the data is that return flights from abroad can only be transported to Argentinian tourists or residents, since the entry of tourists from abroad is closed by government order until April 30, as part of the restrictions due to the second wave of the Coronavirus. Only foreigners who have dealt special authorizations before boarding.

Flights to the United States are not prohibited, but fall under the restriction that the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) asks not to authorize the arrival in Ezeiza of more than 2000 passengers per day. It was from this limit that Aerolineas reduced its flights to six per week, while American reduced them from 10 to eight and then to seven per week.

Regular flights from Brazil, Chile and Mexico, as well as those of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Is that the case not allowed, but the ANAC authorizes specific flights in the “special” category. Airlines has a flight scheduled to Santiago de Chile in two weeks. LATAM, meanwhile, only has seats for the Trans-Andean capital. only six flights, by the end of the month.