Also, when purchasing goods and services from vendors local, the sector sustains more than 85,000 jobs and, additionally, the salaries that the industry pays its employees are fully or partially transferred to the consumption of goods and services, supporting other 50,000 jobs.
It is estimated that tourists arriving in Argentina by air and spend their money in the country contribute to support another 130,000 jobs.
The local cabotage market it is led by Aerolíneas Argentinas with 67%followed by flybondi with 17% Y JetSmart with 16%according to November statistics prepared by the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC).
Regarding the movement of flights internationalANAC maintains that during June 2022 the airlines began to operate in the country ITA Airways and Viva Colombia (Fast Colombia SAS), while in October Aero Republic and in november he returned emirates and they added Latam Ecuador and Costa Rican Airlines.
In parallel, other international airlines that were already operating since the resumption of flights after the pandemic, such as Air France, KLM, British Airways; American Airlines, Delta, United, Aeroméxico, Copa Airlines, Avianca, Latam Chile, Gol, Paranair, Iberia, Level, Lufthansa, Boliviana de Aviación, Sky Airlines, JetSmart Chile, Swissair, Ethiopian Airlines and Air Europa, resumed their pre-pandemic frequencies.
The Jorge Newbery Airportwith a movement in November of 1,225,585 passengerswas the one who presented a Greater volumefollowed by Ezeiza, with 666,203; Cordoba, with 196,809; Mendoza, with 188,945; Bariloche with 149,470¸ Puerto Iguazú; with 115,979; Jump, with 113,911; Ushuaia, with 100,709; El Calafate; with 86,621 and Neuquén, with 85,614, among the top 10.
Argentinian airlines
Aerolíneas Argentinas estimates to end the year transporting 11 million passengers, while it projects more than 13 million for next year, which is the figure they registered before the pandemic, while for the first quarter of 2023 they program a growth of 4% compared to 2019, according to what company sources told Télam. .
Aerolíneas Argentinas was also the company that transported the most passengers to and from Brazil in September; the third in respect of Chili, after Latam and Sky; and the second in respect of USAbehind American Airlines.
The group’s current fleet is made up of 79 aircraft, made up of eight Airbus 330-200, eight Boeing 737-700, 29 737-800, seven B737 MAX 8 and 26 Embraer
Among January and November this year, the flag company transported 8,699,340, what represents the 95% compared to 2019flying to 38 destinations, two more than it had in 2019 (Puerto Madryn and Valle de Conlara), with 79 routes and presence in all provinces, and 43 Intersections, without going through Buenos Aires.
The president of the company, Paul Cerianiassured that the plan they have in place will make it possible to make better use of the planes and the crews, with the perspective of “expanding the existing offer”.
Ceriani assured that they have left behind “the difficult years” characterized by the closure of tourism and the sanitary restriction that affected airlines around the world, and that today they are all experiencing processes of continued growth, although conditioned by the uncertainty derived from the international economic crisis and the aftermath of the war in Ukraine.
He also said that the Market expansion led to the recovery of aircraft and the optimization of personnel in Airlines to respond, but warned that this evolution finds a “bottleneck” in access to inputs and aircraft repair shifts, which concentrate few firms worldwide.
During this year they influenced different variables in the growth of international passengers, such as the addition of flights to Peru and Colombia, new routes to Brazil, an increase in local incoming tourism; new routes for low cost airlines; restart and increase of operations from the interior to regional destinations and the return of summer routes.
Aerolíneas Argentinas increased its interprovincial routes, without going through Buenos Aires; It strengthened its Córdoba Hub and increased its regional flights, inaugurating routes between cities in Brazil and cities in the interior such as Córdoba, Mendoza, Salta, Bariloche, Ushuaia and El Calafate.
JetSmart
The same thing happened with JetSmartthat adds a total of 72 domestic and international routes within the entire region, having recently inaugurated its international flights to Asunción, Paraguay and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to which are added the frequencies that already existed with Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay.
The company manager, Gonzalo Perez Corral, maintained that they are projecting “for the month of December to be operating close to 60% more seats than we operated in December 2019“, clarifying that” while domestic traffic is this strong and regional, in some cases, shows potential, international flow is still at 60 to 70% of the pre-pandemic movement.
The good performance led the airlines to resume their growth plans by adding aircraft: Jetsmart already flies with eight and Flybondi with 10.
Flybondi received the tenth plane a few days agoand estimate to have twelve by the end of the year and end 2023 with 17 aircraft.
“This year will end with a potential close to 11.6 million passengers; it is still below the 16 million of 2019but with a demand exceeding the supply. In 2023 we can close with 18 million; and the potential of the Argentine market makes it possible to think of 30 million passengers in the next five years,” said the CEO of the company, Marcelo Sana.
Source: Ambito
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