The airport El Palomar, symbol of low cost airlines, celebrated its first year

February 9, 2018 The dovecote entered as a commercial airport at National Airports System (SCN) become the third aerospace in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. Airline symbol low cost, has also been the subject of struggles and refusals from neighbors in the region and human rights organizations who have denounced the destruction of one. Memory site.

Despite the recurring failures Flybondi, one of the leading companies that operate in El Palomar, in 12 months the first airport low cost of the country became the tenth with more movements in the country carrying more than 764 thousand people, 130,000 of whom had the opportunity to travel for the first time by plane.

Guillermo Dietrich, Minister of Transport of the Nation, celebrated the year of operations and highlighted the creation of 472 jobs. "An airport generates development, creates opportunities, creates jobs"said Dietrich.

The minister pointed out that of the 700,000 pbadengers who pbaded through El Palomar, for 17%, it was a first flight: "We show that the plane is not the privilege of a few, but that more and more Argentines have access to this means of transport, fundamental for a country with such long distances than ours ".

Rejection of neighbors and human rights organizations

The opening of the commercial airport in a district and more specifically in the air base where the "death flights" took place during the last dictatorship prompted the rejection and opposition of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and neighborhood organizations.

Before activating the airport, Nora Cortiñas had appeared before the Federal Court 2 of San Martín to ask the judge Martina Forns "the closing illegal works that continue to be carried out clandestinely destroy a Memory site ".

In 2017, the district collective Official Flybondi Stop brought an action against the authorization of commercial flights in The dovecote require the termination of Flybondi's operations until the public security of the airport's adjacencies is verified.

One year after the airport was commissioned, an indignant neighborhood continues to demand noise pollution. Annoying noises at all hours of the day and night, walls cracked by short distances between aircraft and houses at the time of takeoff and landing, and the fear of a tragedy are the neighbors' problems to whom opening the airport has changed their lives.