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Lan Argentina SA closed its operations in the trans-Andean country, after formalizing an agreement with just over 1,500 employees out of a total of 1,715.
The information was released by La Nación in an article that includes an internal statement issued by the subsidiary to its workers.
“Lan Argentina SA is aware of the impact of this painful but inevitable process and recognizes the effort and commitment of all its collaborators throughout these years”, reads the document with which the company ends its flights.
According to the same writing, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the difficulty in promoting agreements to face the current situation “configured an extremely complex scenario, where it was not possible to visualize a viable and sustainable project over time “.
All of this caused “Lan Argentina SA to stop flying to and from 12 domestic destinations after 15 years of uninterrupted operation.”
As indicated by the company, the flights to the four international destinations covered by Lan Argentina SA, together with other subsidiaries to the United States, Brazil, Chile and Peru, will continue to be executed by the other subsidiaries of the group.
As reported by La Nación, the company has six aircraft, which are parked at the Buenos Aires airport. The machines, said the aforementioned article, could end up being the object of discord in the event of possible claims from the 193 workers with whom no agreement was reached.
And even worse. At the moment they cannot fly and their only future is to stay on the ground. There – the trans-Andean environment refers – they will gradually lose their value as an aircraft “To go on the scrap market”.
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