Argentine travels to USA they still are incessant despite the restrictions imposed by the Government. Only in the remainder of this month will some 10,000 people to that country, most of it with direct destination to the city of Miami, where vaccination is enabled for tourists arriving from abroad. The flights are mainly from Aerolineas Argentinas, which leaves six times a week, but every day there is also at least one flight from an American airline (American Airlines, United, Delta), not counting the offer of regional flights with connection to the USA. USA
Not counting flights that are pending approval by the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC), there are already programmed 30 passenger flights to the US, in airplanes that carry between 270 and 320 passengers. 25 of those flights are direct to Miami (17 from Airlines and eight from American) and others are towards Dallas, Houston y Atlanta .
For next month, despite the fact that airlines now have greater restrictions on programming (the ANAC went from granting monthly permits to doing it from one week to the next), only from Aerolíneas there are already 7,000 seats available to travel to Miami. And foreign airlines also have flights for sale for the first days of that month.
It is a type of tourism that is talked about in WhatsApp chats and on social networks, but that few operators in the sector want to mention aloud.
“American Airlines flights are full. I’m looking these dayss for people who are going to be vaccinated and can’t get a place“A retail operator, a former employee of the US airline, told Clarín.
In Airlines they also have that the Airbus A330, with 270 seats, they leave full to Miami. “It looks like a bus on a Friday at six in the afternoon. And it is about flights that are prohibited for company employees: the free seats, which we call indoors sublo, are now only available to domestic flights“, said a source familiar with what is happening at the state airline.
Only this Sunday, from Ezeiza, two flights will depart to Miami, one from Airlines and the other from American, but there will also be three flights to Houston (United), Atlanta (Delta) and Dallas (American). There will also be regional flights that offer connections with the US from LATAM (Santiago de Chile) and Copa (Panama).
Airlines is the one with the most scheduled flights, with six weekly connections to Miami (every day except Tuesdays), followed by American (eight flights to Miami in the remainder of April, plus a confirmed flight to Dallas and others that are in the pipeline).
Not least data is that return flights from abroad can only transport to Argentine tourists or residents, since the entry of tourists from abroad is closed by order of the Government until April 30, within the framework of the restrictions due to the second wave of the Coronavirus. Only foreigners who have processed special permissions before boarding.
Flights to the United States are not prohibited, but still fall within the restriction that the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) is applying to not allow the arrival in Ezeiza of more than 2,000 passengers per day. It was from that limit that Aerolineas lowered its flights to six per week, while American reduced them from 10 to eight, and then to seven per week.
Regular flights from Brazil, Chile and Mexico, as well as those from the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland is it so prohibited, but the ANAC is authorizing specific flights under the “special” category. Aerolineas has a flight scheduled for Santiago de Chile in two weeks. LATAM, meanwhile, only has seats available to the trans-Andean capital in only six flights, from here to the end of the month.
