A competition for airlines in the airlift to Montevideo

The Argentine JetSmart will start flying from the Aeroparque metropolitano a Montevideo starting from May 29th, with two daily frequencies every day.

The self-described “ultra low cost” airline with US capital will inaugurate with this the seventh international route that it covers with the planes of its Argentine branch.

No less important fact is that the route to Montevideo, for years, It is covered exclusively by Aerolíneas Argentinas due to the lack of another competing operator, both Argentine and Uruguayan.

The state airline has an air bridge with Carrasco airport four daily frequenciesbringing the new offering from JetSmart will increase available places by 50% (both fly similar capacity aircraft, approximately 190 passengers).

“The route will have two daily frequencies, From Monday to Sunday, morning and evening and will begin operations starting May 29, 2024. Its prices start at $68,400 final pesos, with taxes and fees included for the route departing from Buenos Aires and $66,900 final pesos, with taxes and fees included for flights taking off from Carrasco International Airport,” JetSmart said in a statement.

JetSmart is controlled by the American investment fund Indigo Partner, owner of other “low cost” airlines such as Border airlines (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA), WizzAir (Hungary) e Volaris (Mexico).

Another JetSmart shareholder is American Airlines, which in mid-2021 reported its entry as a partner but without specifying what share of the share package it acquired. Control remains in the hands of Indigo, a fund created and led by the American investor and former commercial pilot Bill Franke.

The airline began flying to Chile, from where it made the first flights to the airport of Dovecote in 2018. The following year, in April 2019, was the inaugural flight of the Argentine branch, with a flight between El Palomar and Neuquén. For almost a year, JetSmart and Flybondi aircraft have used this airport as their base of operations.

After the change of government and the pandemic, the planes of the two “low cost” companies were moved to Ezeiza airport, since El Palomar airport was not authorized by the National Airport System Regulatory Body (ORSNA) at the time. , who was responsible for La Cámpora, as well as the management of Aerolíneas Argentinas. For the start of 2021, the two airlines have moved their operations again, this time to the coveted “berths” of the Aeroparque metropolitano.

Today JetSmart Argentina has you covered 30 domestic flightsboth direct and combined, and 50 international flights, of which seven routes are direct flights covered by Argentine-registered LV aircraft and the rest are from JetSmart subsidiaries in Chile, Peru and Colombia.

The route to Montevideo, which the company is already marketing, joins other direct flights from Aeroparque or Ezeiza to Concepción and Santiago (Chile), Lima (Peru), Asunción (Paraguay), Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis (Brazil).