Prior authorization for Latin America to travel to Miami with a Chilean plane and an Argentine crew

"This agreement is a first step towards the demand to rent aircraft to fly with Argentine crews, but we have not yet given Latam permission to do so," said the Chief of the ANAC. Tomás Insausti.

"We see this demand as an badet for the growth of Latin America, but we want to do good," said an official of the Ministry of Transport.

Insausti said that, in addition to meeting with company officials, he had met with aviation lawyers, who had raised some legal issues related to safety.

The demand of Latam motivated the aeronautical strike of a week ago, rejected by much of the business arc.

The Chilean-Brazilian company covers, from its Argentine subsidiary, the Ezeiza-Miami route with an old Boeing B767 that will become obsolete from 2020, because it will not be able to enter the US airspace.

For this reason, the company has requested the rental of aircraft from its parent company, registered in Chile, more modern than the equipment allocated to Argentina.

"If we can not respond to this request, we will have to lift the road to the United States," warned LATAM Argentina president Rosario Altgelt.

On the Ezeiza-Miami road from Latam, 50 pilots and 150 cabin crew members work, or 10% of Latam Argentina's workforce, who, after the mega-devaluation, suffered heavy losses, according to sources from the society.