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Montevideo, April 27th 2024 - 00:11 UTC

Tag: Brazilean airlines

  • Wednesday, December 14th 2016 - 08:16 UTC

    Airlines operating in Brazil allowed to charge for pax' luggage: lower fares?

    Within Brazil, passengers can check one piece of luggage weighing up to 23 kg for free. For international flights leaving Brazil, two suitcases at a maximum of 32 kg.

    The Brazilian government authorized airlines operating in the country to charge for passengers luggage, among other rules that are scheduled to become effective on 14 March 2017. The new rules were approved unanimously and made public on Tuesday by the country's air transport regulator National Civil Aviation Agency, ANAC.

  • Saturday, May 7th 2016 - 00:08 UTC

    A Temer government would allow full foreign control of Brazilian airlines

    Moreira Franco, economic adviser and a former aviation minister, said relaxing the current limits on foreign ownership would help bolster competition in the industry

    A Brazilian government led by Vice-President Michel Temer would consider allowing foreign owners to acquire a controlling stake in local airlines, one of his closest aides revealed. Wellington Moreira Franco, a chief economic adviser for Temer and a former aviation minister, said relaxing the current limits on foreign ownership would help bolster competition in an industry suffering its worst crisis in decades.

  • Thursday, March 3rd 2016 - 05:22 UTC

    Brazil will allow foreign companies to hold a 49% stake in the country's airlines

    Gol, the airline with the biggest market share in Brazil, posted a loss of 2.13 billion Reais (US$532 million) in the third quarter of 2015.

    The government of President Dilma Rousseff has raised from 20% to 49% the maximum stake that foreign companies can hold in Brazilian airlines, according to an executive order signed by the president and published on Wednesday in the Diario Oficial, Official Gazette