VINCI Airports, CEO VINCI Airports Brasil, Julio Cesar Ribas at CAPA’s Latin America Aviation & LCCs 2022 summit
Julio Cesar Ribas, CEO VINCI Airports Brasil, VINCI Airports spoke to CAPA TV on the sidelines of the CAPA Latin America Aviation & LCCs Summit 2022 in Salvador, Brazil. Hear views on VINCI Airports’ commitment to its Brazilian airport portfolio, how the concession agreement will drive long-term change in the country’s aviation sector, and how VINCI Airports remains open to further growth.
Transcript
Julio Cesar Ribas:Our commitment pretty much follows VINCI Airports all over the world, which is to provide positive mobility together with a sustainable way of managing the airports. Salvador Airport is the most sustainable airport in Brazil. And we want to continue that journey also with the airports in the north of Brazil. So it's really important to couple sustainability with positive mobility. I think it has done wonders because the infrastructure in Brazil was not in good shape for quite a while. So the arrival of international operators together with the government, you know, the biggest privatisation or concession programme in the world is taking place in Brazil, not only airports, roads, highways and others. others. So now we have equipment that allows the airlines to basically increase their footprint, more capillarity, and as time goes by, lower prices and more people flying and using the services of the airlines. VINCI always does studies on every opportunity, but quite frankly, now our focus is to increase the business here in Salvador and also to do what we have to do in the airports of the Amazon that we recently took So we are focusing on what's in place and not what it may be in the future. The frequencies after the COVID period that we had now are better than pre-COVID. So we have a hub now in Salvador that was nonexistent before with GOL Airlines. So we have 50 flights per day connecting almost 30 destinations. So it has improved a lot and we have room for growth. The job we did in the airport, provides us the ability to double the capacity that we have now in place. So a bright future waiting for us and for Bahia. Thank you.
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