The goal is that once the Pierrestegui Airport is operational, it will connect our city with Buenos Aires with two weekly frequencies. “This is the result of a long time of work with local actors, mayors of the region, and the Provincial Government,” stated Mayor Azcué.
While awaiting final authorization from the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC), which will allow the “Comodoro JJ Pierrestegui” Airport to be operational, the company Humming Airways made its presentation in our city, where it announced its offer to operate the Concordia-Buenos Aires air route.
It currently operates from “Jorge Newbery” Aeroparque, which allows passengers to be dropped off near the center of the City of Buenos Aires. It flies with 19-passenger aircraft, with an air triangulation strategy, operating efficiently, with destinations such as Venado Tuerto, Tandil, Villa María, and Olavarría, but with the goal of adding Concordia to connect regions that are currently underserved.
The company highlighted that “connecting Buenos Aires with Concordia implies coordinating with strategic centers of the Entre Ríos littoral, with productive, institutional, and social complementarity. These routes respond to a historical need for connectivity. With long land distances, available infrastructure, and an agile operating model, Humming can generate a leap in accessibility, competitiveness, and regional linkage.”
Therefore, once the local airport is operational, the company will be carrying out, in principle, two weekly flights, which would be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, connecting our city with the capital of our country.
In this regard, Mayor Francisco Azcué pointed out that this is the result of “a long time of work with local actors, mayors of the region, and the Provincial Government. This airport needs us all to work together so that it is a factor that favors not only the development of tourism but also other areas, which is why we have to take advantage of it and capitalize on it.”
Azcué also thanked the presence and support of the private sector: “they are the engine of development, and from our administration, we work so that they have more and more tools, as will be the case with the airport.”
Mauricio Colello, Secretary General of the Government, remarked that “we are facing an enormous opportunity to awaken and develop a dormant potential that this region has. This will allow us to shorten distances, bring destinations closer, and put the province back in the spotlight, and this will be achieved if we all work together.”
For his part, Francisco Errecart, founder and CEO of Humming Airways, maintained that the “potential of the region is very high due to the companies that are present, the size of the population, the gross geographic product, and the mobility that exists to and from Buenos Aires. We are facing a market that lacks exploration and development: these two initial frequencies will be like the first step of a successful future connection.”
Present were the Minister of Planning, Infrastructure and Services of the Province Darío Schneider; the Secretary of Transport of Entre Ríos Juan Diego Elsesser; the Vice Mayor Magdalena Reta de Urquiza; Gustavo Cusinato, head of the Provincial Executing Unit (UEP); Federico Schattenhofer, Secretary of Productive Development of the Municipality of Concordia and president of the Air Commercial Development Entity of the Concordia Airport (EDAAC); Ricardo Claro, General Director of Civil Aviation of Entre Ríos and Vice President of the EDAAC; the President of the Argentine Delegation to the Mixed Technical Commission of Salto Grande Ambassador Alejandro Daneri; the President of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce and Services Natalio Grinman; mayors of the region; national and provincial legislators, councilors, and representatives of national, provincial, and local organizations and institutions.