Airlines
South American Airlines Readjust Post-Avianca
Avianca’s demise triggers consolidation of regional operators in Brazil.

The exit of Brazil’s Avianca and the redistribution of its most valuable asset, landing rights at São Paulo’s Congonhas Airport that allow participation in the extremely lucrative São Paulo-Rio de Janeiro shuttle, has provoked a flurry of changes in the market, with more to come. Civil aviation agency ANAC redistributed Avianca’s Congonhas slots to number-three carrier Azul and regional airlines MAP, which operates ATRs in the Amazon, and Passaredo based in upstate São Paulo and serving mostly smaller cities with ATR-500s. On August 21, barely three weeks after the slot distribution, Passaredo announced it had purchased 100 percent of MAP, creating a fleet of 10 ATRs with three more soon to arrive, and that it would use the Congonhas slots, and new state government incentives, to increase flights to regional markets.


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