Just weeks before the winter holidays, different airlines offer promotions and shopping facilities flights and tour the country. There are only a few days left to take advantage of the benefits in trips.
Flybondi is offering tickets to national destinations in 3, 6 and 12 interest-free installments with Visa and Mastercard cards from Banco Nación. The benefit is available until June 30.
For its part, Aerolíneas Argentinas offers the possibility of purchasing flights in up to 12 interest-free installments with Visa and American Express cards from Banco Macro, up to 6 interest-free installments with BNA Visa cards, or in 6 zero-interest installments with NaranjaX cards. There is an additional 10% savings with American Express Macro and Macro BMA.
Flybondi and Aerolíneas Argentinas offer interest-free installments until June 30
In addition, it offers up to 12 interest-free installments with Patagonia 365, up to 6 interest-free installments with Visa from Banco Corrientes and Mastercard YOY, 3 interest-free installments with direct Cabal cards, from Banco Credicoop and Tuya from Banco del Chaco.
Also, Flybondi allows financing for domestic flights in 4, 5 or 6 fixed installments with a NaranjaX card. In addition, they have a 20% discount for retirees until the end of the year. The promotion will be valid only for tickets purchased by passengers who prove they have a retirement benefit granted by the National Social Security Administration (ANSES). To validate this benefit, at the time of making the purchase, the passenger will be required to have their CUIT number, which will be compared with the ANSES website.
Aerolíneas Argentinas has up to 12 fixed installments until the end of the month with Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Cabal bank cards from the Cuota Simple program.
Until June 30, Jetsmart also has a Simple Fee and can be paid in 3 installments with an interest of 7.87%, in 6 installments with an interest of 16.08%, in 9 installments with an interest of 24.85% and in 12 installments with an interest of 34.22 percent.
Despegar also joined Cuota Simple and has a 21% discount for purchases in 1 payment in packages with domestic destinations. The discount applies by paying with credit cards, debit cards from all banks, Mercado Pago (Money in account), Binance, Rapipago, PagoFacil or DEBIN. The same conditions for an 11% discount on accommodation, activities and transfers to domestic destinations.
For those who want to travel abroad, there is the option of purchasing packages, flights and accommodations in dollars, which allows you to save up to 40% without the PAIS tax and perceptions.
The different travel companies and airlines are carrying out these promotions in a context of falling tourist activity. For example, last long weekend, which lasted 3 days, 802 thousand tourists traveled, 64.3% less than on the same date last year, according to data from the Argentine Confederation of Medium Enterprises (CAME).
Total spending was $81,464 million on food, beverages, accommodation, transportation, recreation and various purchases. This represents a decrease of 79.7% compared to last year.
The average daily expense was $50,788, 3.4% less than on the same date in 2023 (at real prices) and had an average stay of 2 days, which was also below what is usual for a weekend of 3 days (usually between 2.2 and 2.5).
“A factor that reduced the dynamism of the weekend’s movement was the drop in international tourism, which, although still latent, is not seen in the magnitudes of previous months,” CAME noted.
