BRAZIL CALLS HALT TO AIRPORT PRIVATISATION
August 1st, 2013
THE BRAZILIAN government will not push ahead with further airport privatisations while it considers the impact of its first five sales, the country’s civil aviation secretary Wellington Moreira Franco has announced. He said remaining airports will stay with state-owned manager Infraero, while the five privatised airports are monitored: São Paulo’s Guarulhos and Campinas-Viracopos airports; Brasília International; Rio de Janeiro’s Galeão airport and Belo Horizonte’s Tancredo Neves. The first wave of sales focused on “the major airports so we could ...
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