From now on, foreign companies can sell international tickets with connections from Aeroparque Buenos Aires. (Credit: Matías Arbotto)

From now on metropolitan airport Buenos Aires can be used by companies as another gateway between Argentina and the world, provided they first pass through a regional destination, the cities of Mercosur plus Peru and Colombia.

Until last year, from the Buenos Aires terminal, it was only possible to carry out “point-to-point” flights, that is to say without correspondence, between Argentine and regional destinations, but now foreign companies flying from the city of Buenos Aires they will be able to sell tickets from these destinations to other world destinations. From Santiago de Chile to Miami, or from Lima, Peru, to Punta Cana, Mexico, to give just two examples.

The latest company to announce that it will use this option is the Brazilian GL which, in a press release, predicts that “soon” it will begin to market international routes for its flights between the metropolitan airport and Brazil. The company currently operates from Rio de Janeiro, Florianopolis and Sao Paulo to the port terminal.

GOL announced that it will sell tickets to international destinations from the metropolitan airport.  (REUTERS/Sergio Moraes/File Photo)
GOL announced that it will sell tickets to international destinations from the metropolitan airport. (REUTERS/Sergio Moraes/File Photo)

In addition, the Brazilian company has a commercial agreement with Aerolíneas Argentinas in codeshare, a company with which it is developing the “air bridge” between Buenos Aires and São Paulo, with 7 daily flights in both directions.

The other airline that uses this option is latamwhich since the beginning of this year has been selling flights with international connections to more than 100 destinations worldwide, from its operations centers in Santiago de Chile, Lima and San Pablo; Although it closed its center in Argentina during the pandemic, the company is actively maintaining operations in the country.

The company of Chilean origin offers four daily flights from Aeroparque to San Pablo, at least one a day to Santiago and another a day to Lima; three terminals which, in turn, have more international flights to the whole world, both from the airline itself and from its two most important partners, the American Delta Airlines and the Qatari Qatar Airways.

Latam has been selling tickets with connection from the Aeroparque since the beginning of the year, with an offer that reaches 100 destinations worldwide.  (REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado)
Latam has been selling tickets with connection from the Aeroparque since the beginning of the year, with an offer that reaches 100 destinations worldwide. (REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado)

Other international airlines such as the Colombian airline also land at the metropolitan airport Avianca (which is in the process of merging with GOL), the low cost Chilean SKY and the Paraguayan airline Paranair; all the airlines that could also offer their flights from Aeroparque with international connections.

The use of the metropolitan airport as a terminal for international connections was restricted for three years by the government, only allowing point-to-point cabotage flights with neighboring and regional countries such as Colombia and Peru.

Anyone who, before 2023, wanted to fly to another destination in the world, such as any European country, the United States or another, had to do so by taking a flight from Ezeiza, or else buying two tickets different, for example one from Aeroparque in Lima, and there another to Madrid.

It is important to note that the first flight that leaves Aeroparque (despite being marketed with an international final destination) must arrive at an “authorized” destination, these are nationals, neighboring countries, Lima and Bogotá.

The limit had been set by the National Administration of Civil Aviation (Anac) in February 2020, before the pandemic broke out, because, as the agency said, the terminal would enter construction to have again an international sector; However, it was on December 31, the last day of 2022, that the agency issued Resolution 744 in which it repealed the article that delimited the perimeter of flights from the Buenos Aires terminal.

“Based on the latest weekly capacity reports received from the National Airport System Regulatory Body (Orsna), it has been concluded that it is possible to promote regulatory change,” said Anac.

Thus, from this year, foreign airlines that operate at Aeroparque can also sell flights from the Buenos Aires terminal without limitation of destinations or number of connections.

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