Aeroparque: in two weeks, it will only offer flights to Uruguay and cabotage

In just 15 dayss, from 1 April, In the Jorge Newbery Aeroparque, there will be only cabotage flights to Uruguay.. This is the final phase of the "deregionalisation" plan of the national traffic airport located in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, which involved the displacement of more than 100 international flights to Ezeiza airport, in order to avoid saturation.

The measure, announced in mid-2017 and published in April 2018 in the Official Journal, provided for the removal of all international flights – with the exception of flights to Uruguay – to the airport Ministro Pistarini. to alleviate "the congestion situation" "a relative increase in daily operations", compounded by "the seasonal nature of regional services" and enjoy the space and infrastructure of Ezeiza.

By 2018, it was planned to remove 50% of international services –In one year, a hundred weekly frequencies have been transferred, according to the data of the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) – and it is expected that in the coming days, the rest of the frequencies of the only four airlines concerned will be changed: Aerolíneas Argentinas, Latam, Gol and Amaszonas.

Airlines must move to Ezeiza about 60 weekly flights (in Santiago de Chile, San Pablo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Salvador de Bahia and Asunción, among others) and will add two flights to Montevideo that will operate like those traveling to Punta del Este. Latam will change flights (14 weekly frequencies to San Pablo and 21 to Santiago de Chile), Gol will move his 10 in San Pablo and Amaszonas their six in Asunción.

Aeroparque will regain the status it knew a decade ago. However, despite the fact that we are trying to concentrate international destinations in Ezeiza, The airport of El Palomar will continue to operate Regional services and international flights of low cost airlines, authorized last November.

Even if they say that, in this way, the operations will be organized more easily, the main criticisms of this modification concern: the difficulty of accessing Ezeiza from some pbadengersespecially for those who live in cities, especially for short-distance regional flights.

To alleviate this problem, airlines are already considering new strategies for, for example, linking regional flights to international flights with other commercial alliances (as is the case with Aerolíneas, with its airline partners, SkyTeam alliance, such as Alitalia, Air Europa and Air France) and adapt more effectively to the new regulations.