Brazil is planning a massive expansion and upgrade of its airport capacity within the next five years.
This airport development plan will cover 130 airports across the country and will be the largest airport investment program in the history of the Latin American country.
In a television interview with CNN Brasil, Silvio Costa Filho, Brazil’s Ports and Airports Minister, explained that the Brazilian government is working on a three-pronged plan that will see the construction of new regional airports and significant investment in many of the existing ones, including the main airports serving Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Although details of the program will not be disclosed until later this year, the minister explained that one part of the plan involves the renovation of 30 regional airports that are currently operated under a concession regime.
In parallel to this, Brazil’s government-owned airport operator, Infraero, is also preparing plans to invest in the development of 20 new airports. The flagship of these is the future Olimpia International Airport, which will serve the north of Sao Paulo state.
The Brazilian government is also planning to either build or upgrade another 80 airports throughout the country, mostly through concessions, to expand regional air connectivity. The idea is to use the airports as vectors of regional…
Source www.aerotime.aero
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