Hangar Pains: The Argentina-Chile Airport Controversy
Hangar Pains: The Argentina-Chile Airport Controversy
A decision that Chilean-owned LAN-Argentina must move its hangar out from Buenos Aires’ downtown airport has sparked a new rift in bilateral relations.
Relations between neighboring Argentina and Chile have reached a new low point. The latest controversy surrounds a decision by Argentina’s airport regulator, ORSNA, mandating LAN-Argentina, a Chilean-owned airline operating domestically, to vacate its maintenance hangar at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, one of Buenos Aires’s two airports. LAN-Argentina’s director, Agustín Agraz, called this decision a form of “intimidation.”[1]
The controversy is now involving the upper echelons of both governments. Chilean President Sebastián...
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