by Gaston Doval
Although the recession is still showing its claws in the air, Delta Air Lines and Lufthansa have not made cuts in current services to Buenos Aires. The decline in the number of passengers seems to have affected the services of the two carriers.
The maintenance of existing services can easily be reflected in the lack of flights to the destinations they fly (thanks to the limits imposed by the outdated bilateral agreements with Argentina maintaining other countries), in addition to providing efficient connection to other parts of the world - that helps keep them occupied.
Germany's Lufthansa increase to a daily flight service to Buenos Aires, being at present in 5 weeks frequencies annals. Photo: Tsuyoshi Hayasaki .
is why, during the high season in Argentina, or IATA Winter, Germany's Lufthansa will increase to 7 flights per week, leaving the frequency between Buenos Aires and Frankfurt to a daily flight. Remarkably, Lufthansa, last year ceased to operate via Sao Paulo, as this was no longer an advantage when it decided to withdraw the second daily flight to the continent's most important city South America. The flights will be operated with Boeing 747-400.
Delta approximately 20% increase in capacity offered, maintaining its daily flight from Atlanta. Photo: Jerry Pang .
In contrast, the U.S. Delta Air Lines is unable to add frequencies to the type of bilateral agreement that kept the United States and Argentina. An increase in demand and often require an extra exposure to the DOT (Department of Transportation) and the regulatory burden to the Secretary of Transportation of the Nation. Therefore, Delta decided to increase the capacity offered by changing the team that operates the route (Buenos Aires - Atlanta) a Boeing 767-400/ER Boeing 767-300/ER a, which implies an increase of 42 supply seats daily. Both
schedule changes will be made from October 24 this year, for the start of the IATA Winter.
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