In the context of the presentation of the high winter season 2023, which took place this Friday in Buenos Aires, the president of Aerolíneas Argentinas, Pablo Ceriani, told Aviacionline that they are negotiating the incorporation of a third airplane for the cargo division, with the objective of materializing it during 2024.
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, ahora: estamos en el lanzamiento de la temporada alta de invierno 2023 por parte de Aerolíneas Argentinas y el ministerio de Turismo. Una conferencia cargada de info y también declaraciones. Abrimos hilo. pic.twitter.com/WVhGMvCBeE
— Aviacionline.com (@aviacionline) June 30, 2023
Aerolíneas Argentinas Cargo was presented in 2022, and after receiving its first Boeing 737-800(SF) last February, it began regular flights on May 3, operating between Ezeiza International Airport and Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, where Mirgor, the company with which it signed an agreement for the transport of its cargo within the country and the region, is based.
This contract stipulates the use of the aircraft during half the day for the transport of logistical supplies and commercialized products by the private company and the rest of the time it is available for the direct operation of Aerolíneas Argentinas Cargo.
The first plane to fly was registered as LV-CTC (which had previously been part of the fleet in its passenger version), while the second, registration LV-KHQ, was received on May 22 and, in mid-June, it was transferred to the FAdeA facilities in Córdoba for the application of the Aerolíneas Argentinas Cargo livery.
More planes for Aerolíneas Argentinas
The information about the potential addition of a third freighter is complemented by what Pablo Ceriani had told Aviacionline in early June in an interview conducted in Istanbul, as part of the 79th Annual IATA General Assembly, that the company is making progress in the incorporation of new planes to its fleet, whether to add capacity or replace older aircraft.
On that occasion, the executive said that they have already chosen the A330neo for the widebody fleet, and that deliveries would be between 2025 and 2026.
On the other
hand, the E190s would be replaced with E195-E2 aircraft, with an initial order of 10 aircraft. When asked specifically today about the financing of these aircraft, whether they would be through the BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development) as had been the case with the E190s, Ceriani said no, that they are looking for different alternatives.
Parallel to all this, over the next three years, another ten Boeing 737 MAX would be arriving (in February he had mentioned that they also considered the 737-9 variant).
