Aeroparque AEP reopened 1 December 2010 (updated title)
Nov 5, 2010, 11:36 am
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AR continues to do LAN amazing favours..... I spoke to my friend who is with LAN's local management and he tells me that their birds are all flying out with 100% occupancy.
Nov 5, 2010, 12:01 pm
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Indeed....LAN certainly helped a couple of passengers last night who had suffered bereavements and had to get to their destinations. ^
Nov 5, 2010, 1:38 pm
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Yeah, I read about that... its clear that LAN aside from offering an excellent in-flight product is an all round professional company... kudos to them and to the now president of Chile, who was one of the founding fathers of the new LAN.
Nov 7, 2010, 9:50 pm
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What a mess
Hey folks,
So AEP is closed for repairs, a month after they said, and now they are estimating it'll take 30 days, even though before they said 50. Who really thinks it'll be done in time for the holiday AEP-PDE flights?
What got my attention was what happened after closing AEP. So Austral, LAN, and Aerolineas flights got moved to EZE, and the smaller airlines got send to palomar. Upon arriving in EZE one of the Austral pilots got in a fight with one of the Aerolineas pilots.
Then the Aerolineas pilots went on strike, shutting down all of their domestic flights, because of the fight. What kind of union holds a wildcat strike because on of their members got in a fight with a member of a rival union?!
It get's better, so all of the passengers are finding out their flights are canceled and they're pissed. First a football (soccer) star start's taking swing's at Aerolineas employees and manages to deck one of them.
Another group of 60 passengers decide to go even further, they occupy a plane and hold a sit-in, demanding to be flown to Tucumán! Eventually the striking Aerolineas employees manage to negotiate with the striking / plane occupying passengers, offering them lunch, if they'll hand over the plane.
It would be hard to invent a story as fantastic as the reality which has gone down in the argentine airline industry this week.
Wednesday i'm flying to EZE, hopefully things have calmed down by then.
-rabble
So AEP is closed for repairs, a month after they said, and now they are estimating it'll take 30 days, even though before they said 50. Who really thinks it'll be done in time for the holiday AEP-PDE flights?
What got my attention was what happened after closing AEP. So Austral, LAN, and Aerolineas flights got moved to EZE, and the smaller airlines got send to palomar. Upon arriving in EZE one of the Austral pilots got in a fight with one of the Aerolineas pilots.
Then the Aerolineas pilots went on strike, shutting down all of their domestic flights, because of the fight. What kind of union holds a wildcat strike because on of their members got in a fight with a member of a rival union?!
It get's better, so all of the passengers are finding out their flights are canceled and they're pissed. First a football (soccer) star start's taking swing's at Aerolineas employees and manages to deck one of them.
Another group of 60 passengers decide to go even further, they occupy a plane and hold a sit-in, demanding to be flown to Tucumán! Eventually the striking Aerolineas employees manage to negotiate with the striking / plane occupying passengers, offering them lunch, if they'll hand over the plane.
It would be hard to invent a story as fantastic as the reality which has gone down in the argentine airline industry this week.
Wednesday i'm flying to EZE, hopefully things have calmed down by then.
-rabble
Nov 7, 2010, 10:42 pm
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The government has now admitted that the operational capacity of EZE has been exceeded ... incompetence at its finest!
El Gobierno admitió que se superó la capacidad operativa de Ezeiza
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1322360
El Gobierno admitió que se superó la capacidad operativa de Ezeiza
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1322360
Nov 8, 2010, 6:09 am
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Nov 8, 2010, 12:34 pm
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Has anyone been able to confirm if passengers arriving on domestic flights are now having to pay the entrance fee at EZE? My only flight into EZE is a domestic LAN flight from IGR. I am assuming that passengers on flights rerouted to El Palomar are still avoiding the fee while all flights rerouted to EZE are now getting hit. Does anyone know yet?
Nov 8, 2010, 2:32 pm
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I'd be amazed if AEP re-opens on schedule. Any reason u started a new thread on this rather than posting in the existing one?
Nov 8, 2010, 2:34 pm
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Has anyone been able to confirm if passengers arriving on domestic flights are now having to pay the entrance fee at EZE? My only flight into EZE is a domestic LAN flight from IGR. I am assuming that passengers on flights rerouted to El Palomar are still avoiding the fee while all flights rerouted to EZE are now getting hit. Does anyone know yet?
Nov 8, 2010, 6:27 pm
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They added to the chaos today as the LAN FAs went on strike... the Labour Department stepped in and they resumed normal operations, but for 4 hours it was 100% chaos again at EZE....
Nov 8, 2010, 6:31 pm
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Nov 8, 2010, 6:51 pm
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Nov 9, 2010, 3:45 am
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