LATAM Airlines has filed before the Brazilian Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil its scheduled flights between São Paulo and the Malvinas Islands, with the re-inaugural operation planned effective February 9, 2022, as reported by our partner media in Brazil, Aeroin.
The company has scheduled a weekly flight, on Wednesdays, departing from Guarulhos as LA 8210 at 9:30 AM to land in Mount Pleasant at 2:30 PM. In the reverse direction, flight LA 8211 will take off at 4:30 PM, arriving in São Paulo at 9:40 PM.
Operations will be on Boeing 767-300ER aircraft with a capacity of 238 passengers.
While the above schedule is already in the ANAC Brazil flight listing, the Malvinas Islands government is still determining entry requirements for passengers to the island.
Resumption of flights involves consideration of a wide range of issues, such as quarantine requirements, the appearance of new variants of the disease, border policies related to Covid-19, among others, so the commercialization of tickets has not yet been launched. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the re-launch of this route was announced on a couple of occasions and later suspended.
According to the bilateral agreements between Argentina and the United Kingdom, this flight must perform a stopover at Cordoba airport once a month, but so far the schedules of this operation have not been confirmed.
LATAM Brazil had inaugurated its flights between Sao Paulo, Cordoba, and the Malvinas Islands in November 2019 as a complement to those that already existed for two decades from Punta Arenas (with a stopover in Rio Gallegos once a month). When the pandemic outbreak occurred in March 2020 all operations were discontinued.
Since then the islands have relied entirely on the South Atlantic Air Bridge which connects them to Brize Norton Air Base in Oxfordshire (120 km west of London) via Ascension Island on Royal Air Force Airbus A330-200 aircraft.
