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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 10:06 UTC

Tag: Aerolineas Argentinas

  • Saturday, November 12th 2016 - 20:15 UTC

    Aerolíneas Argentinas prepares for the summer

    Many changes to airline services in the region by carries like Aerolíneas Argentinas

    Aerolíneas Argentinas announced Friday a series of adjustments to its operations which will increase the seating capacity by 10% for peak summer season destinations - DAP starts flying between Ushuaia and Punta Arenas - The neverending story of Bolivia's haunted airport.

  • Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 10:46 UTC

    Aerolineas Argentinas could become profitable in four years time

    Aerolineas have cut non operational costs and increased revenue in the last nine months, but losses this year could reach a billion dollars

    Aerolineas Argentinas CEO revealed that the flag-carrier is increasing passenger numbers and could become profitable in four years but losses keep piling, an estimated one billion dollars this year, which comes upon a one to two million dollars daily losses during most of the decade.

  • Tuesday, September 20th 2016 - 12:54 UTC

    General Electric pledges US$ 10bn in Argentina over the next decade

    ”When we saw the Argentine people elect President Macri, and we looked at the leadership team that he assembled, we saw a real tipping point,” Rice said.

    U.S. industrial conglomerate General Electric will invest US$10 billion in Argentina over the next decade, vice chairman John Rice said on Monday, the latest foreign company to announce new plans since President Mauricio Macri took office.

  • Tuesday, September 6th 2016 - 17:56 UTC

    Aerolineas official magazine refers to the Islands as the Falklands

    In an interview with one of Argentina's leading best-selling authors and historian, Felipe Pigna the English version of the magazine, turns Malvinas into Falklands

    Argentina's flag carrier Aerolineas Argentinas has been caught with its official bi-lingual magazine, “Alta”, committing a major “sin”. The magazine can be found in all aircraft seat pockets and in a reference to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, the company apparently apologized for having committed a “translation excess”.

  • Tuesday, September 15th 2015 - 10:30 UTC

    Aerolineas Argentinas expropiation returns to haunt Cristina Fernandez

    In 2008, president Cristina Fernandez ordered the expropriation of Aerolineas Argentinas and Austral, declaring air navigating an essential public service.

    The Argentine government and its economic crimes bureau, Procelac, filed on Monday a complaint against Spanish group Marsans for an alleged move to “sell” a lawsuit filed before the World Bank’s ICSID over Aerolineas Argentinas and Austral expropriations, to Burford Capital, a speculative fund. ICSID stands for International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

  • Monday, June 29th 2015 - 06:44 UTC

    Aerolineas Argentinas and the stripper who pulled the take off throttle

    Vicky and her two new friends in a selfie taken in the Buenos Aires Rosario flight

    Argentina's flag carrier sacked two pilots and banned a glamorous star and part time stripper from flying in the airline following the release of a video where she is seen in the cabin manipulating some of the instruments when taking off and landing. Victoria Xipolitakis personally offered the recording in her cellular to a local television channel triggering immediate reaction from Aerolineas Argentinas, air security authorities and even passengers.

  • Tuesday, March 10th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

    Journalist who first reported Nisman's death sues Aerolineas and Telam

    “I won’t come back to Argentina during the current government, and also I don’t know if I will return after,” Pachter said in an interview from Israel.

    Following the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, an Argentine-Israeli journalist who first reported the death has sued two state-owned companies that publicized his private data.

  • Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 05:37 UTC

    Falklands and the ”unwelcome visits from (Argentine) aircraft”

    Gerald Cheek also played an active part in the resistance against the Argentine invasion

    Gerald Cheek, now retired from his position as Falkland Islands Director of Civil Aviation, has addressed a letter to the Penguin News clarifying some details about the 'Unwelcome visits from aircraft', clearly in reference to episodes of Argentine aircraft incursion and landing in the Islands.

  • Wednesday, January 15th 2014 - 00:03 UTC

    Argentine baggage handlers delay Aerolineas flights and cruise vessels in Buenos Aires port

    The baggage handlers were protesting by slowing luggage transfers to a trickle.

    Flights to and from Argentina's capital Buenos Aires’ international airport were delayed on Tuesday after a union offshoot that represents baggage handlers for the national carrier, Aerolíneas Argentinas, went on strike to protest the company’s proposal to hire handlers for six-hour shifts.

  • Friday, December 20th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

    Argentina threatens to nationalize power companies because of the blackouts

    Capitanich: if they are not willing to give people the service they deserve, we will be willing to take over that service

    Argentina on Thursday threatened to nationalize utility companies Edenor and Edesur after power outages left large areas of the capital Buenos Aires and surrounding suburbs in the dark, just ahead of the austral summer. “If they are not willing to give people the service they deserve, we will be willing to take over that service,” said cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich.