Brazil in urgent air alert

Soaring tourism in Brazil has led to an urgent demand for new aircraft…

Aviation industry officials have estimated that Brazil could need more than 300 extra passenger aircraft over the next 20 years.

A spokesperson for Airbus explained: “Greater capacity is needed because the South American country is becoming more and more popular with leisure travellers. Indeed, the rate of growth during the next few years will outpace the global average.

”Since the mid-1990s, international passenger traffic has doubled, and with Brazil being the major economic player in Latin America, air traffic has grown immensely, and will continue to do so with even more amplitude during the next 20 years at least”.