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Aerolineas Argentinas |
Aerolineas Argentinas is one of the major airlines of Argentina. This is so as it covers many national and international destinations and there are records to show that this airline of Argentina is the largest and one of the most favored airline of the country. The international destinations covered by this airline is operated from the Ministro Pistarini International Airport in the capital city of Buenos Aires. This airline flies to destinations that are not serviced by other airlines in the country like the flights to Oceania. Apart from Aerolineas Argentinas and the LAN Airlines in Argentina, there are no other Latin American flights to the cities in Oceania. The airline was founded in the year 1929 and it started as Aeroposta and covered only few destinations like the Mendoza and Posadas. After the government made ways for other air routes, there were airlines like the LASO and the LANE that later merged on to become LADE. All these merged on to become Aerolineas Argentinas. After the World War II, the airlines merged in order to provide better commercial services to the society. In the initial years the airline faced difficulty as there were not much airport facilities that only made the service suffer.
| There were few people who were instrumental in making the airline a success. Alfonso Aliaga García and Dirk Wessel Van Layden were very instrumental in making the airline a success. The aircraft models of the Aerolineas Argentinas were the DC-3 and the Douglas DC-4. The Aerolineas Argentinas covers destinations in and around the South American continent as well as many international destinations in the North America, Europe and Asia. The government in order to make the airline function much better, organized the Ministro Pistarini International Airport into a better and modernized airport.
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The fleet of Aerolineas Argentinas consists of the airbuses and the Boeing. The aircrafts are used for long and short haul flights and each of the fleet have different capacities and categories of seating. The fleet of Aerolineas Argentinas are 2 Airbus A310-300, 4 Airbus A340-200, 2 Airbus A340-300, 12 Boeing 737-200, 1Boeing 747-200, 15 Boeing 737-500, 3 Boeing 747-400 and 19 MD80. Aerolineas Argentinas has ordered many other models of aircraft so that it can increase operations.
The hub of Aerolineas Argentinas are Ministro Pistarini Int'l Airport and the Jorge Newbery Domestic Airport. There are schemes for the frequent flier of this Argentinian airline is Aerolíneas Plus and the member lounge is the VIP Lounge. The parent of this airline is Grupo Marsans. Over 50 destinations are covered at the domestic and international level by Aerolineas Argentinas.
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