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For the European planemaker, the
recovery of the airline market is a fact. Airbus meanwhile is building the A380
and plans to ramp up jetliner production. From Toulouse, a special report by
Federico Etiennot
Pluna costs Uruguay 22
million dollars a year. The president of the company says, justifying the
continuity of operations, that it produces large benefits by generating tourism.
The Uruguayan airline monopoly is once again a polemic issue, although the
government is intent on maintaining it at all costs.
Tight
belt
This time it won't be the
passengers who will have to limit their movements before taking off. So Varig
and TAM to emerge successfully from their alliance they will have to sharpen
their pencils. Employees and aircraft are on target.
To
attend an Aerolíneas Argentinas press conference is to go and listen to
encouraging information, even though not everything is quite true. The company
executives handle information as it suits them and it does not seem to worry
them to make a thousand and one announcements that never materialize. However,
some figures in the market seem to confirm their strategy.
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