Differences in the negotiation for the new flight to the Falkland Islands

The Falklands Government announced today that it had chosen the airline Latam as responsible for the addition of a commercial flight connecting the islands to the mainland, with a stopover in London. Argentina once a month. But in the Foreign Ministry say that nothing has yet been confirmed, and issued a statement denying the claim of kelpers.

According to the document published in Puerto Argentino, Latam would unite the archipelago with Sao Paulo, Brazil, on flights that would develop during a working day and that once a month they would land in an Argentine city at to define.

In this way, the airline would extend its current offering to the Falklands, retaining the only commercial aviation activity from Latin America to the archipelago. Currently, you can fly to the islands via Punta Arenas, in southern Chile. This flight leaves on Saturday and stops in Río Gallegos once a month.

"It's their desire, of course," they say to the Argentine government, which in 2016 agreed with the United Kingdom.
a series of measures which facilitate the merger in bilateral relations and which led, among other things, to
identification of Argentine soldiers buried in the Darwin cemetery. According to the administration of Mauricio Macri, the statement that was broadcast in the islands is "false" because "this is not the leak that the two governments have decided".

The flight that closed the Malvinas government incorporates the menu of options that are being evaluated, but this is not the only one.

In response to what was said by Malvinas officials, the Argentine government issued a statement in which it states that the airline offers "are still subject to badysis by the Argentine authorities competent. "

"Once all submitted proposals have been duly evaluated by the Government of Argentina from the point of view of its viability and convenience, will be issued, if any of them is actually selected, the corresponding authorizations, according to the Argentine legal system and in the applicable air services agreements ", adds the letter.

The expansion of air offer between Argentina and the Malvinas is considered by the Argentine government as a symbolic step
"extremely significant" and as an opportunity to "advance in other areas of the relationship" through "integration of islanders" to the continent.