It was announced last week that LATAM had submitted to the Brazilian Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil its flight schedule between Sao Paulo and the Malvinas Islands, with the reopening operation scheduled for February 9, 2022, although subject to the evolution of several factors.
Lastly, as informed by the airline to Aviacionline, the company will not resume the route in February, responding to «the travel restrictions of the different countries and the evolution15 of the pandemic», and without a confirmed resumption date.
«The group is continuously evaluating the conditions together with the competent authorities to restart operations on different routes, including the operation to and from the Malvinas Islands,» they added.
LATAM Brazil had launched its flights between São 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).
The islands lack regular air connections with the American continent since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, depending almost exclusively on the South Atlantic Air Bridge that links them to Brize Norton airbase in Oxfordshire (120 km west of London) via Ascension Island in Airbus A330-200 aircraft of the Royal Air Force.
In this context, the Argentine government last month offered its British counterpart the possibility of carrying out humanitarian flights in the Malvinas Islands
with Aerolíneas Argentinas to carry residents, as a counter-offer to the request made by the local government for a series of special flights.
