According to the specialized media AeroRoutes , the German commercial airline Lufthansa will carry out a flight to the Malvina Islands on March 1, 2025. The air operation will be carried out in a Airbus A350-900 , scheduled to depart Munich at 07:20 on 10 March under flight number LH2572 , arriving at Mount Pleasant military runway at 19:00 on the same day.
The return flight is scheduled for the following day, March 12, leaving at 7:00 p.m. from the air base on the usurped Malvina Islands and arriving in Munich at 1:20 p.m. the following day.
In 2021, Lufthansa had carried out its first operation in the Malvinas, departing from Hamburg, in what they defined as the longest passenger flight in the airline's history. It carried only 92 passengers on board, all of whom were scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the other half were the ship's crew for the upcoming Polastern expedition . So far, according to our partner media, Aeroin , it is not clear whether the purpose of this flight is the same.
The advertisement launched by the airline in 2021, reporting on the record achieved on its flight between Hamburg and the Malvinas.
On that occasion, diplomatic noises arose between Argentina, the United Kingdom and Germany, given that Lufthansa had not initially informed the South American country about this flight. This was later remedied when the German airline made a formal request to the National Civil Aviation Administration and the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands for an overflight and landing.
Currently, the Malvina Islands are only connected to the American continent through a weekly LATAM flight from Santiago de Chile via Punta Arenas, which also makes a stopover once a month in the Argentine city of Río Gallegos.
Prior to the pandemic, LATAM had also inaugurated a service connecting the Malvina Islands with Sao Paulo/Guarulhos, with a monthly stopover in Córdoba. Last month, during a meeting in New York, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of the Argentine Republic, Diana Mondino, and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, David Lammy, discussed the possibility of resuming this service.
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