Aerolíneas Argentinas extends its "low cost" modality to all domestic flights

From 0 today, Aerolineas Argentinas has integrated into its system, for all its cabotage flights, a new fare that reduces ticket costs, offering the possibility of paying only for the services used.

According to Clarín, the program "Rates to your measure", which already applied to some international destinations (Bogota and Punta Cana), allows pbadengers to choose two types of economy fares: a promotional rate only available for some flights and another base. . In either case, the shipping costs of the baggage are avoided and the possibility of returning or changing the ticket is resigned.

Options, available for some seating seats per flight, apply to return tickets, in low season and include the ability to carry hand luggage up to eight kilos. Meanwhile, adding a 15-kilo bag costs 549 pesos per stump.

The economy achieved is important: while, according to the traditional formula, roundtrip to Aeroparque or Ezeiza costs 4 330 pesos, with the basic fare, the same section can be carried out for 1 998 pesos .

De Aerolíneas has indicated that promotional rates (Promo) "will not be available all the time". In promotions, where the seat can not be chosen and trips are not going to accumulate miles, a round trip to Buenos Aires will cost 1,198 pesos.

Segments now available are: Promo, Base, Plus and Flex for economy cabs; Club Economy for cabotage companies and Cóndor Promo Club and Club Cóndor for international cabins.

Low cost model

The scheme of "tailor-made tariff" is to apply to the segmentation that already exists in terms of rates, different degrees of benefit. For example, the segment identified as Promo, which is the lowest of the tariff scale, allows the pbadenger to board the aircraft with only one piece of hand luggage, can not choose a seat and can not change the date of the trip.

In this case, as indicated by the airlines, the shipment of luggage in the cargo hold or modification of the date will result in an additional cost, intended to prevent the pbadenger from paying what he does not do not want to use.

The following categories allow free shipment of luggage, date change, ticket return or seat change.

The new system differs from the previous one also in terms of quotas for each segment. Until now, the categories had specific quotas and once they were exhausted, it was impossible to get a ticket with this cost.

The company said that now, while there is room on the aircraft will be able to access the lowest segment (Promo), which establishes a direct competition with the low cost companies.