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Hand carry on Aerolíneas Argentinas

Aerolíneas Argentinas is a SkyTeam member based in Argentina, flying from Buenos Aires (EZE). For a hand-carry that alliance membership matters in one practical way: a courier can connect onto another member carrier on a single ticket, which reduces the risk when a routing needs two flights.

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RouteUAE → EZE

Typical flying time16h 44m

Distance≈13,700 km

Typical outcomeSame-Day, Late

One person beats a parcel networkon Aerolíneas Argentinas

The freight chain is not slow because aircraft are slow, it is slow because a consignment waits at every handover. A courier removes the queues, not the kilometres.

OnBoard CourierOne person. One seat. One signature.

CollectedIn the cabin Delivered in on Aerolíneas Argentinas, same day or next morning

Conventional air freightA parcel in a system, every handover is a queue.

Drop-offAcceptance cut-off Build-upFlight Break-downCustoms Delivered, day 3 to 5

0h24h48h72h96h+

When a seat beats a parcel, the full comparison →

Firm quote in 15 minutes

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Five short questions. A dispatcher replies with a named departure, the delivery hour and one fixed price, day and night.

One named courier from collection to signature
Customs cleared in person on arrival
Licensed UAE company, proper VAT invoices

Operational route facts

Last reviewed: August 2026, carrier line-ups and frequencies are indicative and change with seasonal schedules; your quote is priced on the day’s actual flights.

How the flying actually works

Non-stop links into Buenos Aires (EZE) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates via GRU (daily through-service)

Alternative gateways nearby

AEPJorge Newbery Airfield, Buenos Aires · ≈30 km straight-line · connection gateway

MVDCarrasco International, Montevideo · ≈230 km straight-line · connection gateway

When the primary airport’s timing loses, a late bank, a curfew, a fog morning, the quote compares these alternates with the true road leg included, and names the winner.

220countries and territories on the desk

500+airports a courier can be booked into

15 minfrom your message to a firm price

24/7the operations centre is awake

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on Aerolíneas Argentinas

A hand-carry is only as fast as the next departure. The desk watches three boards at once and books the one that lands first, then holds the one that leaves next.

Emirates

The night bank out of Terminal 3

Between one and four in the morning Emirates pushes back a wave of widebodies from Terminal 3 that reach Europe before the first meeting and Asia by the afternoon. For on Aerolíneas Argentinas that wave is the reason a courier confirmed at eight in the evening is still delivering the next day.

Widebody only, non-stop to 140 plus cities

flydubai

The short sectors, several times a day

From Terminal 2 flydubai runs the one to five hour sectors: the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Africa, the Balkans, the subcontinent. Where a widebody leaves once a day, flydubai often leaves three times, which turns a missed slot into a ninety minute delay rather than a lost day.

Frequency is the fallback

Etihad

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

Ninety minutes down the E11, Etihad leaves from Zayed International with its own bank of departures and, for the United States, immigration cleared before boarding. When the Dubai departure for on Aerolíneas Argentinas is gone, the desk looks at Abu Dhabi before it looks at tomorrow.

US preclearance at AUH

The desk holds no allegiance to a carrier. The booking goes to whichever board puts a courier at on Aerolíneas Argentinas first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on Aerolíneas Argentinas: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Five questions, one fixed price, a named flight. The desk answers within 15 minutes, day and night, and you decide.

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Aerolíneas Argentinas in the network the desk measures

Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the AR code that yields 104 city pairs across 66 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.

66airports on this carrier

14countries and territories reached

104scheduled city pairs held

513average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the AR code on 104 city pairs, reaching 66 airports in 14 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by Aerolíneas Argentinas and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 97 per cent of those airports sit on time zones in the Americas, and the next largest block is on European time zones.

The longest sector held for the carrier is Buenos Aires (EZE) to Rome (FCO) at about 11,156 km, and the shortest is Buenos Aires (AEP) to Buenos Aires (EZE) at about 31 km. 76 per cent of the pairs are under 1,500 km. This is a short sector operator, which for a hand carry out of the Gulf means it is almost always the second leg of the routing rather than the first. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Buenos Aires (AEP), on 51 of them, which is 49 per cent of everything held under this code.

The thickest sector under the code is Bogotá (BOG) to Rionegro (MDE) at about 54.3 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 0.4 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. That sector does not touch Buenos Aires (AEP), the airport this code is booked through most often, so the desk treats it as a seat sold under the code rather than flown by the carrier, and confirms the operating airline before it quotes. 28 of the 104 pairs run four or more times a day and 42 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Buenos Aires (AEP) the code leans on Buenos Aires (EZE) on 31, Córdoba (COR) on 13, Bogotá (BOG) on 9 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the AR code most often

From	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Bogotá BOG	Rionegro MDE	Colombia	54.3	215	the pair page
Bogotá BOG	Santiago de Cali CLO	Colombia	39.4	279	the pair page
Bogotá BOG	Cartagena de Indias CTG	Colombia	38.7	656	plan this
Bogotá BOG	Santa Marta SMR	Colombia	28.3	714	plan this
Barranquilla BAQ	Bogotá BOG	Colombia	27	692	plan this
Buenos Aires AEP	Córdoba COR	Argentina	15.9	649	plan this
Buenos Aires AEP	San Carlos de Bariloche BRC	Argentina	15.4	1,335	plan this
Buenos Aires AEP	São Paulo GRU	Brazil	13.9	1,694	the pair page
Bogotá BOG	Cúcuta CUC	Colombia	13.6	402	plan this
Buenos Aires AEP	Santiago SCL	Chile	13.4	1,147	the pair page
Bogotá BOG	Pereira PEI	Colombia	13.4	177	plan this
San Andrés ADZ	Bogotá BOG	Colombia	12.7	1,208	plan this
Buenos Aires AEP	Mendoza MDZ	Argentina	12.4	978	plan this
Buenos Aires AEP	Puerto Iguazú IGR	Argentina	11.9	1,052	plan this
Buenos Aires AEP	Neuquén NQN	Argentina	10.1	994	plan this
San Carlos de Bariloche BRC	Buenos Aires EZE	Argentina	10.1	1,309	plan this

The 16 sectors the AR code appears on most often, out of 104. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.

How a courier reaches Buenos Aires from the Gulf

The schedule the desk holds shows no AR service into a UAE airport, so a courier does not board this carrier in Dubai. The routing is built the other way round: a Gulf carrier takes the first leg to Buenos Aires (AEP), and Aerolíneas Argentinas carries the second. The desk holds no non-stop link between a UAE gateway and AEP either, which means two changes and a routing the dispatcher checks by hand before it quotes.

Night restrictions on the airports the AR code uses

A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 1 of the 66 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.

Madrid (MAD), night operations. Operates around the clock. Night departures to the Americas are routine.

Published lanes that carry the AR code

The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. Aerolíneas Argentinas appears in the schedule on one of them, and the one it flies most is Madrid to Buenos Aires at about 8.1 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.

Madrid to Buenos Aires, about 8.1 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 10,087 km.

The countries the AR code opens

Of the 14 countries and territories reached, 10 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is Argentina with 39 airports on this code. The country desk for Argentina sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

Argentina (39 airports), Colombia (9 airports), Brazil (6 airports), Uruguay (2 airports), Bolivia (1 airports), Dominican Republic (1 airports), Spain (1 airports), Aruba (1 airports), United States (1 airports), Peru (1 airports).

Where to go next on the AR network

Each of the 66 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 104 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Buenos Aires (AEP), the route calculator with Dubai to AEP already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where Aerolíneas Argentinas fits in an OBC routing

Aerolíneas Argentinas is based in Argentina and operates from Buenos Aires (EZE) as a member of SkyTeam. For us a carrier is not a brand preference, it is a departure time. We book Aerolíneas Argentinas when it has the next seat that gets your consignment there, and we combine it freely with any other airline on the same routing because we hold no alliance membership and no exclusive contract.

Cabin baggage reality

As a full-service carrier the cabin baggage allowance is usually workable for a hand-carry, and a premium cabin adds both allowance and rebooking priority. We still confirm the limit for the specific flight and aircraft type before quoting.

Connections

Where a single Aerolíneas Argentinas sector does not reach the destination, the courier connects, and stays with the consignment on every leg, so it is never handed over in transit.

How we book

An ordinary passenger seat on the open market, in the courier's own name, matching the passport exactly. Premium cabins when the consignment or the schedule justifies it.

Customs is separate

The airline moves the aircraft; the courier declares the goods. Entry rules are per country, not per carrier, see our country guides.

Why frequency matters

A carrier with three rotations a day turns a missed departure into a short wait. That is worth more on a deadline than a marginally faster aircraft.

Independence

No alliance, no exclusivity, no volume commitment. The schedule decides, not a supplier agreement.

Destinations and markets this carrier serves for us

Airline timetables change constantly, so rather than reprint a schedule that will be wrong next month, here is what is useful: the markets where Aerolíneas Argentinas regularly appears in our routings, and the pages that describe those lanes in detail. If you need a specific city on Aerolíneas Argentinas, ask and we will check the live schedule.

Country page: Argentina →Buenos Aires

Markets in Americas:

United States Canada Mexico Brazil Argentina Chile Colombia Peru Panama All countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on Aerolíneas Argentinas or any other carrier, this is what a courier changes compared with the hold of the same aircraft.

✓ On board courier

A person in a seat

Leaves on the next available flight, often within hours of your call, 24/7.
One named courier holds the consignment from collection to signature.
Travels in the aircraft cabin wherever the airline, cargo classification and security rules permit it; the transport configuration is confirmed before booking.
No warehouse, no consolidation window, no overnight sort.
Customs cleared in person, questions answered at the counter, immediately.
Same-day delivery is realistic on most sectors out of the UAE.
Built for high-value, fragile, temperature-critical goods and originals.
Proof of delivery with signature, ID check and a photograph within minutes.
A human being you can call at any point of the journey.

✕ Air cargo & express freight

A parcel in a system

Waits for the next consolidation and space allocation, not for you.
Passes through many hands: hub, build-up, ramp, break-down, delivery agent.
Rides in the hold, frequently sitting in a warehouse overnight.
Each handover is a queue, and each queue is where hours disappear.
Cleared in a batch by a broker; one query can idle the shipment for a day.
Next day at best on most lanes, two to three days if it is held.
Chain of custody is a scan history, not a person with the box.
Signed for by whoever happens to be at the door.
Right answer for heavy, bulky or non-urgent freight, and we will say so.

To be straight about it: air cargo is not a bad service, it is a different one. It moves weight cheaply and it does that extremely well. A hand-carry buys back hours, and it is worth paying for exactly when an hour of delay costs more than a seat on a plane, which is the case far more often than most shippers assume, and far less often than most courier companies claim.

The full comparison, with costs →

Questions about flying Aerolíneas Argentinas

What clients and couriers ask when they see this carrier on an assignment.

01Are you an agent or partner of Aerolíneas Argentinas?

No. OnBoard Courier is an independent courier management company. We buy ordinary passenger seats on the open market and hold no agency, contract or partnership with any airline. Airline names and marks belong to their owners and are used here only to describe the routes these assignments travel on.

02Will my consignment definitely fly Aerolíneas Argentinas?

Only if that is genuinely the fastest option for your deadline. We book whichever carrier departs next with a seat and a cabin allowance that fits.

03How much can a courier carry on Aerolíneas Argentinas?

As a full-service carrier the cabin baggage allowance is usually workable for a hand-carry, and a premium cabin adds both allowance and rebooking priority. We confirm the exact allowance for the specific flight before quoting.

04Can I fly as a courier on Aerolíneas Argentinas?

If you are in our network, yes, couriers fly whichever airline the assignment requires. We book and pay the ticket and pay a fee per completed assignment.

Need a routing that uses Aerolíneas Argentinas?

Send the two ends and the deadline. We will check the live schedule across every carrier and come back with the fastest realistic option.

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Why a courier on Aerolíneas Argentinas rather than a cargo booking

People usually find this service when something has already gone wrong: a line has stopped, a sample is about to expire, a document has to be somewhere tomorrow that it cannot reach. It is worth understanding how the service works before that day rather than during it.

It is also worth saying what the service does not fix. It does not make a permit appear, it does not make a sanctioned party acceptable, and it does not make an undeclared battery legal. Where those are the problem, a courier only makes the problem arrive faster, which is why the screening happens before the quote.

What clients are actually buying is the removal of every handover. In a normal air freight movement a consignment changes hands seven or eight times: shipper, forwarder, handling agent, ramp, aircraft, ramp, break-bulk, broker, delivery agent. Each handover is a queue and each queue is where hours disappear. A courier reduces that number to one, collection, and one more, delivery.

Applied to Buenos Aires, the practical upshot is simple: tell us the contents, the value, the deadline and the receiving party, and we will tell you within the hour whether a courier is the right answer, what it costs, and which flight it goes on. Where the honest answer is freight, you will get that instead.

How an assignment routed over Buenos Aires runs

Most people booking a courier for the first time want to know what the hours look like. This is the real sequence for a Buenos Aires assignment, the parts we control, the parts the airline controls, and the part where customs decides how the day goes.

Minute 0 to 15

You tell us what it is

Everything starts with an honest description of the goods. We ask what it is, what it costs, who is receiving it in Buenos Aires and when it must be in their hands. Vague answers produce vague quotes and, far worse, customs problems at the other end.

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

We check three things at once: whether we may lawfully carry it, whether Argentina will let it in without a permit we do not have, and whether it physically fits an aircraft cabin. Only then do you get a fixed price, and the price includes the ticket, the courier fee, transfers and a hotel where an overnight is unavoidable.

Hour 1 to 3

A named courier is assigned and booked

Assignment is not a raffle. The consignment's value, its regulatory profile and the destination decide who is offered it. For Buenos Aires, visa eligibility usually narrows the list faster than availability does, which is exactly why a global courier network is worth having.

Hour 2 to 4

Collection, sealing and documentation

Collection is a documented handover, not a pickup. Identity checked, contents verified against the invoice, seal applied and numbered, photographs taken, and the file opened. From that point one named person holds the consignment until someone in Buenos Aires signs for it.

In flight

The consignment stays in the cabin

The flight is the boring part, and that is the point. No hold, no handling agent, no transfer between systems, one person, one box, one continuous chain of custody all the way to Buenos Aires (EZE).

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

Clearance at Buenos Aires (EZE) happens with a person standing at the counter who can answer questions about the goods on the spot, which is the whole reason a query takes minutes here and a day in the cargo channel. Then the delivery, in person, against signature and ID.

The paperwork that decides how fast Buenos Aires goes

Nothing delays a hand-carry as reliably as a document that says something different from the box. This is what we prepare with you before the courier leaves, and why each piece matters at Buenos Aires (EZE).

Temperature and dangerous goods

Dry ice quantities, lithium battery watt-hours, biological substance classification and packing group all have hard limits for a passenger cabin. Some consignments to Argentina can travel exactly as they are; some need repacking; some cannot fly with a passenger at all, and we say so rather than finding out at security.

Named consignee with authority

Someone in Buenos Aires must be entitled to receive the goods and, where clearance requires it, able to act as importer of record. A delivery address without an authorised person behind it is where otherwise perfect assignments stall.

Duty, tax and who pays it

Import duty and VAT or GST in Argentina are the consignee's cost unless you have agreed otherwise in writing, and the terms should be settled before departure. It is a small conversation before the flight and an expensive one after it.

Commercial invoice

The document customs actually reads. It needs a plain description of the goods, the real value, the currency, the terms of sale and the full names and addresses of both parties. “Samples, no commercial value” is not a customs value and it is the fastest way to turn a twenty-minute clearance at Buenos Aires (EZE) into an afternoon.

Tariff classification

The HS code decides the duty, the permits and sometimes whether the goods may enter Argentina at all. We would rather agree the classification with you before departure than watch an officer choose one for us, because the officer's choice is the one that stands.

Proforma invoice for non-sales

Repairs, exhibition goods, replacements and samples still need a document with a realistic value on it. The value is what the goods are worth, not what you would like the duty to be, an understated value is a customs offence in Argentina rather than a negotiating position.

What a Buenos Aires courier actually costs, and why

We do not publish a price list, because a fixed table would be a lie: the same box on the same route costs differently at four hours' notice than at two days'. What we can do is be exact about which levers move the number, so nothing in the quote is a surprise.

How much notice you give us

A seat bought four hours before departure costs what a seat bought four hours before departure costs. Nothing about that is a courier margin, it is simply the airline's pricing curve, and it is the single largest variable in a Buenos Aires quote.

Visas and positioning

If the routing to Argentina needs a visthe courier does not hold, either we assign a courier who does or we position one, and a global network exists precisely so that the answer is usually the first option rather than the second.

Declared value and insurance

All-risk cover is priced on the declared value of the goods, and it is the number that matters, airline liability under the Montreal Convention is a fraction of what most courier consignments are worth. Understating the value to save a little on cover is a false economy the first time anything goes wrong.

What is always included

Ticket, courier fee, airport transfers, the hotel where an overnight is unavoidable, the documentation work and our operations desk being awake for the whole journey. What is not included is duty and tax in Argentina, and anything you ask for after departure that changes the routing.

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Buenos Aires (EZE) are part of the job, not an extra. Where the delivery address is a long drive from the airport, or a second domestic sector is needed, we price it in from the start instead of stopping at arrivals.

Distance and sector count

A direct flight to Buenos Aires is one ticket and one risk. A two-sector routing is cheaper on paper and more expensive in practice, because every connection is a chance to lose the consignment's schedule. We quote the routing we would actually fly, not the cheapest one that technically arrives.

Every quote we send is fixed before departure and contains the flight, the courier's fee, transfers and, where an overnight cannot be avoided, the hotel. The things that can change it afterwards are the things you control: a change of destination, a change of goods, or a delay at your end that costs the booked flight. Duty and tax in Argentina sit with the consignee unless we have agreed otherwise in writing.

Dubai skyline at dusk — The race for excellence has no finish line.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

What can go wrong on a Buenos Aires assignment, and what we do about it

Every operator has these problems. The difference is whether the answer was decided in advance or invented at the counter. This is our answer to each of them, written down before you need it.

The declared value is challenged

It happens, and it is survivable when the invoice is realistic and consistent with the goods. It is not survivable when someone wrote a convenient number. We check this before departure precisely because there is no way to fix it afterwards.

Something needs to continue past Buenos Aires

A second sector, a border crossing or a domestic flight beyond Buenos Aires (EZE) is planned as part of the assignment, not handed to a third party on arrival. The chain of custody either holds to the signature or it is not a chain of custody.

The goods turn out to be regulated

Found before departure, this is a repack or a permit. Found at security, it is a lost flight and sometimes a confiscation. It is the reason we ask uncomfortable questions about contents at the very beginning instead of taking a booking politely.

The connection is missed

This is why we build routings above the minimum connection time rather than at it. Where a connection is genuinely tight, the courier holds the consignment airside and takes the next available service rather than clearing into a country they were only passing through.

Weather or airspace closes the route

Force majeure does not disappear because a shipment is urgent. What we do is re-plan around it, a different hub, a different carrier, occasionally a different UAE airport, and tell you what the new arrival time is rather than letting you discover it.

The flight is cancelled

Not a crisis, a routine. Before the courier leaves for the airport we already know the next two departures that could carry the consignment to Buenos Aires, on any carrier, from any of the seven UAE airports. Rebooking is a phone call, not a rescue operation.

How jobs like this actually run

Illustrative cases, patterns from daily OBC work, details generalised for client confidentiality.

YachtingNCE → DXB

A regatta winch motor between two race days.

Chandlery13:20

Evening non-stop18:05

Marina berth03:10 +1

✓ Boat on the start line.

EnergyDOH → IAH

A turbine control card for a plant running on reduced load.

Handover Doha07:10

Non-stop08:55

Site gate Houston17:30

✓ Unit back to full output the same night.

Med-techICN → DXB

A surgical navigation unit needed before a scheduled theatre slot.

Factory dock15:30

Overnight non-stop23:55

Hospital loading bay05:40 +1

✓ In the theatre before the first case.

Times are typical for these lanes; every job gets its own named flight and timeline before you confirm.

How it moves

A desk that never sleeps

24/7 operations in Dubai watching every leg, rebooking before you notice a delay.

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Estimate your price, live, before you talk to anyone

An indicative calculation on the OBC-One pattern: airline seat, courier duty, hotel where the routing needs one, transfers and handling. Pick any of the airports we serve, adjust the settings, the breakdown updates as you go. Nothing here is a binding price; the airline fare on the day decides the final number.

Departure hub

Destination airport

What is travelling? Weight: 5 kg More than 23 kg, second courier Service

How urgent?

Indicative total ,

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Origin airport

Destination airport

Shipment type

Ready date & time

Who is booking

Company

What does the company do?

Your name

Phone

Email address

What is in the consignment?

Request received. We reply by email from bookings [at] onboardcourier [dot] ae, usually within 15 minutes.

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I need to send something

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We pay the ticket and a fee per completed assignment. You choose when you are available.

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Where to go from here

Hand carry on Aerolíneas Argentinas is one chapter of a larger network. OnBoard Courier moves time-critical consignments with vetted on-board couriers departing 24/7 from all seven UAE airports to 584 destinations across 219 countries. Choose the service that fits, classic hand-carry, AOG for grounded aircraft, medical and pharma, next flight out or high-value goods, then check entry requirements and customs by country and how an assignment actually runs, minute by minute.

Prefer to compare first? Read when a seat beats a parcel network, browse the industries we move for or scan the airlines the couriers the desk places fly with. If you travel often yourself, flying as an OnBoard Courier pays per completed assignment. For anything urgent, the fastest route is the quote form above, answered by a person, day or night.

One person beats a parcel networkon Aerolíneas Argentinas

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Operational route facts

How the flying actually works

Alternative gateways nearby

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on Aerolíneas Argentinas

The night bank out of Terminal 3

The short sectors, several times a day

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

on Aerolíneas Argentinas: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Aerolíneas Argentinas in the network the desk measures

The sectors that carry the AR code most often

How a courier reaches Buenos Aires from the Gulf

Night restrictions on the airports the AR code uses

Published lanes that carry the AR code

The countries the AR code opens

Where to go next on the AR network

Where Aerolíneas Argentinas fits in an OBC routing

Cabin baggage reality

Connections

How we book

Customs is separate

Why frequency matters

Independence

Destinations and markets this carrier serves for us

On board courier vs air cargo

✓ On board courier

✕ Air cargo & express freight

Questions about flying Aerolíneas Argentinas

01Are you an agent or partner of Aerolíneas Argentinas?

02Will my consignment definitely fly Aerolíneas Argentinas?

03How much can a courier carry on Aerolíneas Argentinas?

04Can I fly as a courier on Aerolíneas Argentinas?

Need a routing that uses Aerolíneas Argentinas?

Why a courier on Aerolíneas Argentinas rather than a cargo booking

How an assignment routed over Buenos Aires runs

You tell us what it is

We screen it and price it

A named courier is assigned and booked

Collection, sealing and documentation

The consignment stays in the cabin

Customs, then a signature

The paperwork that decides how fast Buenos Aires goes

Temperature and dangerous goods

Named consignee with authority

Duty, tax and who pays it

Commercial invoice

Tariff classification

Proforma invoice for non-sales

What a Buenos Aires courier actually costs, and why

How much notice you give us

Visas and positioning

Declared value and insurance

What is always included

The ground legs at both ends

Distance and sector count

What can go wrong on a Buenos Aires assignment, and what we do about it

The declared value is challenged

Something needs to continue past Buenos Aires

The goods turn out to be regulated

The connection is missed

Weather or airspace closes the route

The flight is cancelled

More questions about carrying a consignment on Aerolíneas Argentinas

01What happens if the flight is cancelled?

02Do you handle customs at Buenos Aires (EZE)?

03How quickly can a courier leave for Buenos Aires?

04Can you collect outside the UAE?

05What do you need from me to start?

06How is delivery proven?

07Can I speak to a person during the journey?

08Does the consignment ever go into the hold?

How jobs like this actually run

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