Argentine Airlines to Fly Back to Puerto Rico

Argentine Airlines (AA) has just reopened its office in San Juan and one of its jetliners covering the Miami-Buenos Aires route will start flying to Puerto Rico as early as November, AA’s Marketing Manager for the Caribbean Eduardo Rozen said this week.

A 247-seat Airbus 340 will make a weekly stopover in San Juan en route from Miami to Buenos Aires.

Mr. Rozen indicated the air carrier has included this flight given the increasing interest of Puerto Ricans to travel to Buenos Aires since December 2002, most of them driven by the ongoing currency exchange rates.

AA was forced to call off its flights to Puerto Rico when the economic crisis that swept the country prompted the lockdown of the San Juan office.

Mr. Rozen added that AA will earmark a budget of a quarter of a million dollars to advertise the new flight in Puerto Rico.