Amid the global Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, Argentina's National Civil Aviation Administration (NCAA) issued a decree on Monday, April 27th, 2020, banning all ticket sales for commercial domestic and international flights until at least September 1st, 2020. While the NCAA states that the new decree will prevent airlines from selling flights not approved by authorities, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) sent a letter to the Argentine government saying that the NCAA's degree breached bilateral agreements and put over 300,000 jobs at risk across the nation while the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) announced that the NCAA's degree was "not agreed with the industry".

As of now, Argentine has just under 4,000 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus alongside 197 Covid-19-related deaths. Since March, Argentina has closed its borders to non-residents, and imposed strict quarantine measures.

Note: The first photo of the airplane was taken by myself while the second image was taken from the public domain, and do not require attribution or citation even for commercial use. The statistics on Covid-19 cases were retrieved from the Argentine Ministry of Health (https://www.argentina.gob.ar/salud/coronavirus-COVID-19) while the statistics on Covid-19-related deaths was retrieved from the John Hopkins University in the USA (https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality)