New air link authorized between Córdoba and the Falkland Islands – News

The national government formalized the authorization given to LATAM airline to fly between San Pablo and the Falkland Islands with a stopover in Cordoba, which had been agreed between the governments of Great Britain and Argentina.

He made it by Decree 602/2019, which bears the signatures of Mauricio Macri, Marcos Peña, Jorge Faurie and Guillermo Dietrich, published Monday in the Official Journal.

Currently, the connection between the mainland and the islands is provided by a monthly flight, also from Latin America, which, from Punta Arenas, stops at Rio Gallegos.

With the authorization of this flight, there would be two frequencies in the islands, because the flight that will connect San Pablo to Puerto Argentino four times a month would be added, and one of these frequencies will stop. in Cordoba.

The recitals of this decree indicate that "the proposed operation is framed in" the agreement on regular air transport between the Government of the Argentine Republic and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil "and that" attentive to characteristics of the service it deals with, and considering the general interest of the business ", they deem it" appropriate to give a favorable course "to the request made at the time.

This need to increase the number of flights to the islands was evoked by the inhabitants of Malvinas, who wanted greater connectivity with the continent.

The decree entrusts the National Administration of Civil Aviation (ANAC), a decentralized agency under the Ministry of Transport, "in its capacity as the implementing authority in the matter," of " carry out the actions enabling the effective implementation of the authorizations conferred. "

Finally, the decree authorizes "the Brazilian flag company Tam Linhas Aéreas S.A., for reasons of public interest, to exercise traffic rights in the cabotage sections Córdoba-Islas Malvinas and Islas Malvinas-Córdoba.