the president of Argentinian airlines, Paul Cerianisaid that this winter holiday season “will be record” with an expectation of transporting “600,000 passengers”.
“This weekend is the strongest due to the start of the winter holidays. We are waiting transport 600 thousand passengers in these two weekswith full occupancy. We are very happy with how demand is recovering and this season will be a record,” Ceriani told Radio 10.
“With pre-pandemic levels, we are matching it. We’ll see how it ends. We are at 2019 levels” and “recovering very strongly”, she specified.
Winter season! In the next two weeks we are preparing to receive 600 thousand male and female travelers. We are going to have more than 250 daily flights, an average of 38,000 people each day and full occupancy in the main destinations. ? pic.twitter.com/2LfN2wHQVk
– Argentine Airlines (@Aerolineas_AR) July 16, 2022
“Among the airlines in South America, we are the only ones that are at these levels. The domestic markets recovered faster. In the international market, we have more flights than the competition thanks to the bet we made,” added Ceriani.
“We are offering a competitive and good product for the entire brazilian marketwhich are direct flights to tourist destinations”, he indicated.
“We are expecting to transport 600,000 passengers in these two weeks, with full occupancy.”Paul Ceriani
Regarding Aerolineas as a public company, Ceriani maintained that “the main thing is the idea that the service provided by the company is a public service; it was made clear with the vaccines we brought and now with the number of flights. Beyond the political discourse , I think the underlying debate is that in Argentina, in the history of aviation, what has been proven is that the best years were when the company was state-owned”.
“It is a very necessary service for a country like Argentina,” he assured.
Regarding the publications in some media regarding the Aerolineas deficit, Ceriani expressed that “the relationship between the taxes we pay to the AFIP and the contributions received by the State company, are more or less equal, depending on the years.”