Prior to transport stoppage and while the Government advances with its privatization project Argentine Airlineshe CEO of Azul Linhas Aereas, John Rodgersondenied that the Brazilian company has interest in buying the flag airline. In any case, he clarified that there are conversations with GOL Linhas Aereas.
“Someone asked me if we were interested in buying Aerolíneas Argentinas. We don’t even fly to Argentina“, he stated during the commercial aviation conference of Latin America and the Caribbean, ALTA AGM & Airline Leaders Forum in Bahamas, Nassau. Among those present were his peers Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Airlines; Roberto Alvo, CEO of Latam Airlines; Frederico Pedreira, CEO of Avianca; and Tracy Cooper, CEO of Bahamasair, with whom he shared the space. The event was organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA), which brings together 51 airlines that represent 52% of the region’s air traffic.
According to businessmen in the sector, there were difficulties in negotiating with Argentine Airlines for the slots for their planes in the Jorge Newbery Airport.
Blue Airlineschosen in 2023 as the best airline in Latin Americaarrived in the country in 2017 and stopped flying to Argentina in 2020 due to the pandemic and reorganized its routes in the region in another way.
Finally, after four years of absence and after restructuring his debt of more than 20,000 million reais, he resumed his trips to Argentina last June, but he did so only for the winter season with a seasonal route that connected to the Viracopos airport, in Campinas, San Pablo, with Bariloche.
The Brazilian market is the most relevant at the regional level for Argentina, with an exchange of 299,715 passengers in September (latest data available), according to ANAC. Today, the Buenos Aires-San Pablo route is covered by nine national and international airlines from Aeroparque and Ezeiza: Aerolíneas Argentinas, GOL, Latam Airlines, Air Canada, Swiss, Turkish, Ethiopian and the low cost Flybondi and JetSmart.
The Government advances with the privatization project of Aerolíneas Argentinas
Freedom Advances obtained a favorable commission opinion in the Chamber of Deputies to move forward with its privatization project Argentine Airlineswith which it now has the green light so that it can be debated in the session venue.
The ruling party wants to deal with the project before the end of the November 30 ordinary session periodbut will still have to have some negotiations with other parties to guarantee the majority in the session room.
The decision to advance the privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas was adopted in a plenary session of the Transportation and Budget and Finance commissions.
On the occasion, a majority opinion supported by the LLA, Civic Coalition (CC), PRO, Integration and Development Movement (MID) of Óscar Zago and the UCR, another from a minority proposed by Encuentro Federal (EF) and dissident radicals grouped in Democracia para Siempre, and a third from Unión por la Patria (UP) in rejection of privatization.
In the case of Federal Meeting and Democracy Forever They propose the incorporation of private capital, but with the condition that the State maintains the majority.
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