Originally Posted by
kiwiandrew
Supposedly the Australia- Argentina market is one of AR's few profitable routes ( no, I cannot prove this) . With QF abandoning BUE completely and AR offering a crap product ( and only able to offer it non-stop in one direction) I could imagine that a 2 to 3 times weekly flight timed to fit connections from SYD/BNE/MEL would be worth a feasibility study. I accept that the Argentinian economy is a drawback, as is the lack of onward connections from EZE as most regional flights have shifted to AEP, nonetheless, if route planners at NZ do not at least look at this route to see whether it makes sense they would be negligent.
Serious question: What is the drawback of the Argentinian economy? I was there for an extended period until about a month ago.
Btw, I've also worked extensively for many years in NZ, one of my favorite countries on the planet, so this is not a topic of just idle interest to me.
:waves hello to that great country of NZ which I love tremendously, whose so many people I miss even more: [or however one'd communicated that in proper grammar
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