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The domestic and international airline of Argentina is Aerolíneas Argentinas. This national airline carries almost 80% Argentina’s domestic traffic and 40% of international flights from Ministro Pistarini International Airport located in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires. In fact Aerolíneas Argentinas coupled with LAN Airlines are the only 2 Latin American airlines flying to Oceania. Know more about the airlines operating in Rome as Flightstoromeitaly.com briefs you about Aerolíneas Argentinas, which is one of the international airlines operating in Rome.
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This airlines history dates back to 1929 when carrier Aeroposta was operative and the government of Argentina while recognizing the geographic extent and the countries need for fast transportation links to other countries established an airline to carry passengers and mail. The first two destinations of this airline were Mendoza and Posadas and two more airlines, Laso And Lane by 1930 began flights and the number of cities served in Argentina tripled. These two airlines merged in 1945 becoming Lade. All these carriers merged in May 1949 under the name Aerolíneas Argentinas. On 7th December 1950 Operations started. The government authorised the privatisation of the airline on 27th December 1989 and Iberia acquired a 30% stake on 21st November 1990 subsequently hiking it to 83.5%. Due to poor financial conditions Iberia had to reduce its stake to 20%, and transferred it to a Spanish state holding company, SEPI, and the company was reorganized as a subsidiary of Interinvest. American Airlines in July 1998 acquired a 10% stake in Interinvest, and gave it an 8.5% stake in Aerolíneas Argentinas.
In Rome, Aerolíneas Argentinas operates as an international airline from Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino Airport, which is also known as Rome-Fiumicino International Airport. This is Italy’s largest airport and the second-largest international air gateway, which served over 30 million passengers in 2006. This airport is located at 34 km from the city center of Rome. It’s also one of the two hubs of the Italian flag carrier Alitalia along with Milan-Malpensa International Airport and the international flights of Aerolíneas Argentinas operates from the terminal C in the airport.
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