Brazil/Falklands commercial air link needs “more time for restartâ€
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- 25 Oct 2022
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While the Falkland Islands Brazil commercial airlink is not yet resuming, Director of the Department of Development and Commercial Services (DCS), Becky Clark has confirmed this isn’t a complete cancellation of the LATAM flight.
“FIG and LATAM continue to have regular meetings about both routes, and the announcement that the São Paulo route isn’t restarting yet isn’t any sort of statement on future intent.”
Asked about the reason for the flight not resuming, and whether there was something which made FIG unable to resume the route, Ms Clark said “it’s not an inability [to resume], but the lead in time for re-establishing the route was always at least three months.
“Every time the suspension period was extended it was because something that had been anticipated at the previous point of extension hadn’t happened,”
Ms Clark said this remains to be the case, as Covid-19 numbers remain high in Brazil and “there’s still quite a lot of travel restrictions in place.”
This meant that, Ms Clark said, “getting to that ability to negotiate for the three-month lead in period hasn’t been reached yet.”
The fact that the route is less established, she noted, also has an impact. Read More...
