Aerolíneas Argentinas will increase its frequencies towards Madrid Y Rome starting in the fall, state-owned airlines reported Thursday.
In Madrid, during the International Tourism Fair (FITUR), the executives of the company anticipated that from April the frequencies from Ezeiza to the capital of Spain they will go from 7 weekly flights to nine.
For the winter holidays, in July, the route to Madrid will be increased at 12 weekly frequencies.
In the case of the flight to Rome, a new weekly frequency will be inserted from April, passing from three weekly flights to four. Starting in July, a fifth weekly flightwhich will depart from Ezeiza on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, returning from Fiumicino airport the following day.
In case of flights to Madrid, Aerolíneas also offers codeshare connections with Air Europa a A Coruña, Vigo, Gran Canarias, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, London and Lisbon.
Two of the Argentine officials present at the Madrid fair were the Minister of Tourism, Matthias Lammensand the director of communications of the airlines, Charles Figueroa. “The goal is to continue to promote connectivity in the country by focusing on incoming tourism. Therefore, this expansion of the offer is an invitation for them to visit Argentina,” said Figueroa.
The company reported that it finished 2022 with 11,670,000 passengers carried and aims to exceed the record of 13 million passengers in 2023. It currently operates 38 domestic destinations, 48 inter-provincial routes and 21 international destinations.
Prior to the pandemic, international airline routes were a source of losses and this situation has in principle not been reversed in the case of towards Europe. Instead, you fly to You love me would become profitable, by a sharp rise in ticket prices and demand leading to an occupancy rate much higher.
Aerolíneas had announced on Tuesday that it had received from the state subsidies for 47,000 million pesos throughout 2022, even if from the Ministry of Economy that institution’s website indicates that contributions to the state-owned airline they totaled nearly $73 billion.
Source: Clarin
