{"id":3816,"date":"2019-11-27T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2019-12-02T07:49:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T06:49:34","slug":"aena-disembarks-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/aena-disembarks-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Aena disembarks in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"
In <\/b>2010, the Brazilian government adopted a concession model through international public tendering to manage its airports, which up to that time had been managed by the state-owned enterprise, Infraero. The entity was in charge of the country\u2019s 63 main airports, accounting for 97% of the national aviation business. The first lot was awarded in 2011 and the fifth and most recent was awarded to Aena Internacional in March 2019 for a period of 30 years, consisting of a group of six airports in the Northeast Region of the country: Recife, Macei\u00f3, Jo\u00e3o Pessoa, Aracaju, Campina Grande and Juazeiro do Norte, which in 2018 accounted for 13.7 million passengers.<\/p>\n
Ineco provided Aena Internacional with specialised technical support during the entire process prior to the bid and the handover preparation period that will end in early 2020. This means that the Spanish operator, the world\u2019s largest in terms of passenger volume \u2013more than 280 million in total\u2013 will now manage a total of 23 airports in five countries: twelve in Mexico, one in the United Kingdom, two in Colombia, two more in Jamaica and six in Brazil. It also operates the 46 airports and two heliports in the Spanish network, through which more than 263 million passengers passed in 2018.<\/p>\n
The Northeast Region of Brazil is one of the country\u2019s five geographic regions, and it contains 9 of the 26 federal states:\u00a0 Alagoas, Bahia, Cear\u00e1, Maranh\u00e3o,
\nPara\u00edba, Pernambuco, Piau\u00ed, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe, all of which are on the Atlantic coast. With some 50 million inhabitants, it is the second most populous region after the Southeast, with 77 million, where the large urban centres of Rio de Janeiro and S\u00e3o Paulo are located.<\/p>\n
The Northeast is the most-visited tourist region in the country: the states of Bahia and Pernambuco receive the most visitors, specifically, as sun and beach destinations. Tourism is predominantly domestic, with international tourism yet to achieve its full potential for development: compared to 36.6 million domestic vacationers in 2018, the country received only 6.6 million foreign visitors, a figure that the federal government would like to double by 2021.<\/p>\n
Improving airport infrastructure and management is key to achieving this goal, especially considering that Brazil is also the third largest domestic air market in the world, according to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).<\/p>\n