The Ministry of Infrastructure has reduced the number managements of Aerolíneas Argentinas, which goes from 14 to 8. The data comes from the portfolio headed by Guillermo Ferrarowhich is responsible, among other things, for the state-owned airline.
From the state airline they reported this reduction It did not result in layoffs or layoffs.
“In line with the state policies of tax reduction and savings established by the national government, the Ministry of Infrastructure, led by Guillermo Ferraro, reports that has decided to reduce the number of addresses of the state company Aerolíneas Argentinas by 43%.compared to those existing in December 2023″, we read in the Infrastructure press release, also published in the press release of the Ministry of Transport.
“To give greater functionality to the company, the eight directions that from now on will form the new organic structure of Aerolíneas Argentinas will be: Press and Institutional Relations, Legal Affairs, Economic, Financial, Commercial, Human Resources, Technical and Fleet, Coordination of aviation operations, politics and corporate services,” the ministry added.
“In this way the national government is carrying forward the promised measures reduction and efficiency of public spendingone of the main objectives of the management promoted by president Javier Milei”, underlines the text.
The statement on infrastructure makes no secret of its intention to demonstrate this is intervening in the internal organization of airlineswhich for ten of the over fifteen years that have passed since its nationalization (2009-2015 and 2019-2023) has been under the control of the group La Campora.
However, the airline stressed that it was a task carried out jointly.
“It was a coordinated effort between the Ministry and Lombardo to move forward a more efficient organic structure and this allows us to optimize internal working circuits”, explain company sources.
In this sense, part of the Infrastructure statement refers to the “35% reduction in direct reporting to the company’s general management”.
The current owner of Airlines, Fabiano LombardoOr he had been commercial director for the last four years, when he returned to the state airline after being fired during the Mauricio Macri government.
Lombardo worked at Aerolíneas during the ten years in which the company was managed by La Cámpora, but with a technical profile: he was already an executive trained at the Brazilian airline Varig and one of its successor airlines, Gol. And during Macrismo’s four years he returned to the private sector as representative for Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay of the Portuguese Tap Air and then as general director for South America of the Brazilian Azul Linhas Aéreas.
The Government has not yet taken action Roadmap on how Aerolíneas will continue, which according to the Decree of Necessity and Urgency 70 must be handed over to its workers.
Although the DNU is now in Congress, several groups are said to be in favor of re-privatizing the airline, after having requested subsidies of more than $8 billion from the state over 15 years.
Source: Clarin
