Brazil’s Airports Face ’Demons of Privatization’: Dom Phillips
Brazil’s airports are bursting at the seams. In 2011, about 180 million passengers traveled through the 66 airports run by the government aviation body, Infraero -- 24 million more than in 2010.
This is partly because air travel is no longer a luxury reserved just for the upper classes: More Brazilians are flying than ever before. Data Popular, a market research company, estimates that 7 million lower-income Brazilians took their first flight last year.
The result is queues, delays, poor services and overcrowding in airports. And this is before the inevitable millions of foreign passengers who will travel to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup.
In preparation, Infraero solicited bids for private companies to help them run three of Brazil’s busiest airports in Sao Paulo, Campinas and Brasilia for 20 years. The competition was followed with interest. On Feb. 6, when the winning bids were opened at the Sao Paulo stock exchange, there were surprises in store...
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This is partly because air travel is no longer a luxury reserved just for the upper classes: More Brazilians are flying than ever before. Data Popular, a market research company, estimates that 7 million lower-income Brazilians took their first flight last year.
The result is queues, delays, poor services and overcrowding in airports. And this is before the inevitable millions of foreign passengers who will travel to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup.
In preparation, Infraero solicited bids for private companies to help them run three of Brazil’s busiest airports in Sao Paulo, Campinas and Brasilia for 20 years. The competition was followed with interest. On Feb. 6, when the winning bids were opened at the Sao Paulo stock exchange, there were surprises in store...
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