The government blamed two companies for the delay taken by the kings of Spain upon their arrival in Argentina

The visit of the Spanish kings to Argentina had an uncertain start: Felipe VI and his wife Letizia arrived last night in the country and had to wait almost an hour on the plane because they did not need to the ladder to get off the plane. .

The unusual episode was experienced this Sunday in the Aeroparque Jorge Newbery and became an unpleasant news for the Argentine government, who came this morning to give the official explanations about the case and held responsible two companies that had to guarantee the landing.

The official responsible for explaining what happened is Chancellor Jorge Faurie, who went last night to receive the Spanish monarchs. "Unfortunately, the plane did not have the appropriate scale was to be provided by Intercargo jointly with Swissport"

"They were wrong in the type of scalebecause the plane that brought the kings of Spain is an Airbus with an enlarged body whose height is different from that of the other models of this aircraft, "said Faurie during a dialogue with Eduardo Feinmann on the radio. The Web. "They did not do the math well, Swissport did a bad job, and then the stairs were about a meter away", a point.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs added that the necessary scale was in the terminal, but in another area of ​​the runway and that the delay was the time it took to bring it to the airport. on the plane.

"Unfortunately, Intercargo did not ask for this scale and forced us to wait 40 minutes.Anyway, we did not escape the package.The operator (Swissport) and Intercargo were wrong "he concluded.