Aerolineas Argentinas welcomes new Boeing 737/800 to its fleet

Aerolíneas Argentinas welcomed a new Boeing 737/800 to its fleet for regional and domestic flights, being the tenth aircraft that it receives directly from the Boeing factory, in Seattle. With this the fleet group of these aircraft are a total of fourteen units.

At the moment of receiving the new unit, Aerolíneas Argentinas President, Mariano Recalde, stated: “Nowadays, Aerolíneas has 69 operating aircraft, which indicates a fundamental difference with the 26 that we found in 2008 and states that the task that the State, according to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner indications, is taking forward”.

The B-737/800 – registered LV-FUC – is part of the program of modernization and extension of the fleet that Aerolíneas Argentinas instrumented from the nationalization of the flag airline.

The fleet of Aerolíneas Argentinas narrow-body aircraft has today fourteen (14) B-737/800 and twenty-two (22) B-737/700 NG, which permits to go on developing the Business Plan that will continue with the incorporation of another three B-737/800 in 2015 and with the purchase of another twenty new B-737/800, direct from the factory, that shall be delivered, according the purchase order signed in October of this year with the Boeing Company between the years 2016 and 2018. The benefit of increasing the fleet with Boeing 737/800 is because these aircrafts can be configured with more quantity of seats and this means a lower operating cost.

The B-737/800 has 170 seats with 162 seats in Tourist Class and 8 in Economy Plus Class and the interior of its cabin is designed according to the Boeing Sky Interior specifications, to offer greater comfort and welfare to passengers.

On the other hand and in the Aerolíneas Argentinas B-737/800 presentation, the “Administración Nacional de Aviación Civil” (ANAC) (In English, National Administration of Civil Aviation) enabled the aircraft with a New Registration Certificate.

In order to avoid that Registration and of Airworthiness Certificates can be faked. the “Dirección de Aeronavegabilidad” (in English, Direction of Airworthiness) depending on the “Dirección Nacional de Seguridad Operacional de la Administración Nacional de Aviación Civil”, (In English, National Direction of Operational Safety of the National Administration of Civil Aviation”, implemented a program of Documental Safety to adjust said Certificates to the most safety demanding levels available in our country, which will be printed in the new paper that has been acquired by the “Casa de la Moneda” (in English, Currency House ).

The new document which enables aircrafts has safety measures such us: watermark, imprint, guilloche, security fund; micro lettering; page numbering and barcodes.