President Javier Milei will stop flying on airliners for safety reasons, as reported this morning from the Casa Rosada. It was on the recommendation of the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichwho considered that the conditions are not in place for him to continue traveling on commercial flights, as he did in the first months of management to reduce costs.
“The Ministry of Security warned us about certain risks that the President continues flying on scheduled or common commercial flights. President can no longer travel on commercial flights and the Ministry of Security has submitted a report reserved to all parties involved on the reason for this suggestion,” the presidential spokesperson introduced in his press conference, Manuel Adorni.
Therefore, he ruled: “Indeed, the President will stop using commercial airplanes”.
Meanwhile, Milei’s spokesperson announced that we will now see how this recommendation is implemented so that “all the conditions that merit the investiture” of Milei are met, who so far in his administration has made more international visits than to the provinces.
Yesterday in LN+, Bullrich had been exhaustive. ““There is no money but we have to take care of the President,” indicated the minister, who at that time had not yet spoken with the libertarian leader about the issue and therefore did not want to make announcements about it at that time. “We must consider that Argentina is in a stage of very strong austerity, but we also have to take care of the President. An airliner plane where there are a lot of people, luggage, situations that can arise is not the same as a plane controlled totally and absolutely by us, by the presidential security, by the Military House, by the pilots of the Air Force”he proposed to justify his position.
This goes against what the libertarian administration initially emphasized, when they focused on the austerity and, in the midst of reducing expenses, they determined that the flights of the president and his ministers would be made without resorting to an official aircraft.
When they disembarked, they said from the Casa Rosada that this would continue over time and they even analyzed the possibility of getting rid of part of the presidential fleet. In the sights was the ARG-01the plane that the former president bought in the last part of his administration Alberto Fernandez to replace the Boeing 757 200 that served as Tango 01.
When he went to Davos, Milei himself showed off the measure of his government. “The way of traveling that has been chosen has allowed us to save about $392,000. This money arises from the efforts of Argentines and is our moral duty take care of the mango even in the smallest details. If we take care of the coins, the pesos take care of themselves,” said the President, who shared a photo of himself with his thumbs up in the middle of the aisle of one of the Lufthansa aircraft, surrounded by passengers, also on a journey.