Airports of World Cup 2014 saturated
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June 3rd, 2010
IPEA is the Brazilian Institute for Applied Economics Research, an official body reknown for producing unbiased studies about the Economy of Brazil.
IPEA published recently a study called Perspectives of Air Transportation in Brazil and in the World; the study provides information to help the Brazilian Government better direct investments in infrastructure.
According to IPEA, Brazil has not invested enough in airports, which resulted in several bottlenecks; in 2009, the number of passengers was 40% higher than in 2008. Both passenger and cargo transportation have been affected. In 20 years, the number of passengers will be the triple of today.
Still according to the study, of the twelve host cities of the World Cup 2014, in eight the airports operated above nominal capacity in 2009: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia (these three cities concentrate 40% of total air traffic in Brazil), Natal, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Porto Alegre and Manaus. In all these airports, the number of landings and take offs requested by airline companies was superior to the nominal capacity of the airports.
Four host cities were not qualified as saturated by IPEA technical criteria: Recife, Fortaleza, Salvador and Cuiaba. However, as pointed by other reports (see here and here), even these airports may not offer the comfort and service levels expected by passengers.
FIFA, CBF and the Brazilian Government are rushing to prepare the airports for the World Cup 2014.
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