Opening Argentina’s Air Routes to Competition Seen Taking Time
- Country must upgrade airport infrastructure first: officials
- No plans to change entry regulations for foreign companies
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Argentina’s airline passengers must wait for a more competitive market while the government focuses on improving the country’s infrastructure to be able to handle more flights, even as Avianca Holdings SA and others show interest in entering the market.
Argentina is spending $1.35 billion over four years to upgrade its air transport infrastructure, partly to refurbish 17 airports, Transport Minister Guillermo Dietrich said in an interview in Buenos Aires. New entries into the market will take a long time, and there are no plans to lift regulations for foreign carriers to compete in domestic routes, he said.