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Aerolineas Argentinas - Airline; Airbus A340-300 aircraft, Megawallpapers: Aerolineas Argentinas is Argentina's largest domestic and international airline. It is the national airline and carries around 80% of Argentina's domestic traffic and 40% of international flights from Ministro Pistarini International Airport, which is located in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires. Aerol�neas Argentinas and LAN Airlines are the only Latin American airlines that fly to Oceania. The airline's history can be traced back to the year 1929, when carrier Aeroposta started operations. The Argentine government, recognizing Argentina's vast geographic size and the need for fast transportation links between the countryside and the larger cities, established an airline company to carry passengers and mail. The first two destinations served were Mendoza and Posadas. Frenchmen Jean Mermoz and Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry were among the company's first pilots. [br]By 1930, two more airlines, LASO and LANE, began flights and the number of cities served by air routes in Argentina tripled. In 1945, these two airlines merged, becoming LADE (L�neas A�reas del Estado, i.e. State Airlines). This was a well-timed move, as World War II was entering its final stages and commercial aviation was set to start a stage of explosive growth. In 1946 the first Douglas DC-3s arrived in Argentina, and Argentina's first intercontinental airline, FAMA, was created. In May 1949, all the above carriers merged under the name Aerol�neas Argentinas. Operations started on 7 December 1950. By this time, Argentina still had no acceptable airport facilities; the government of Juan Per�n erected Ministro Pistarini airport to this end. Key to the airline's growth were Alfonso Aliaga Garc�a and Dirk Wessel Van Layden, who has been a pilot with French carrier A�ropostale (not to be confused with Aeroposta), and was influential in raising flying standards.The DC-3 proved to be an invaluable asset for Aerol�neas Argentinas, as it did for a host of other airlines worldwide. It enabled them to fly to domestic destinations that had, until then, been unreachable � and to keep flying FAMA's international routes. Soon afterwards, Douglas DC-4s joined the fleet and services were inaugurated to Santiago de Chile, Lima, Santa Cruz, and S�o Paulo. [br]The 1950s saw the arrival of the DC-6, allowing Aerol�neas Argentinas to fly at night for the first time. Thanks to this plane, the name of Aerol�neas Argentinas was seen at terminals in New York's Idlewild airport, as well as Havana, Lisbon, Dakar, and Rio de Janeiro. By the end of that decade, the Comet IV jet had begun commercial jet services worldwide, and Aerol�neas once again wanted to set the pace among South America's air companies. Airline President Juan Jos� G�iraldes persuaded Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi to buy six of the new planes, on the understanding that Aerol�neas would pay for the planes later. And so, on March 2, 1959, 'Tres Mar�as', which became the first jet airplane flown by Aerol�neas, landed at Ministro Pistarini International Airport. [br]With these jets, Aerol�neas Argentinas kept a steady growth during the 1960s, opening routes to London, Paris, Rome, and Madrid. The 1970s saw the arrival of the Boeing 747s, 737s and 727s, and a stronger marketing strategy. Aerol�neas Argentinas was featured on many Jorge Porcel movies at that time, and the began licensing toy companies to produce models of their aircraft, a practice it maintains today. In 1980, Aerol�neas Argentinas became the first airline to operate a trans-oceanic South Pacific flight, from Buenos Aires to Auckland, New Zealand, and Sydney, Australia, using Boeing 747s. The route remains in operation. [br]Fleet - The Aerol�neas Argentinas/Austral fleet consists of the following aircraft (at November 2005): [br]24 Boeing 737-200 [br]1 Boeing 737-300F [br]4 Airbus A340-200 [br]2 Airbus A310-300 [br]3 Boeing 747-400 [br]2 Boeing 747-200 [br]9 Boeing 737-500 [br]13 McDonnell Douglas MD-80. [br] [br]

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