Almost all of the corporate aircraft manufacturers have now signed up for the new Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (LABACE), to be held next spring in São Paulo, Brazil. Organizers are expecting 300 exhibitors and 3,000 visitors for the event, which has been rescheduled from January 16 to 18 to March 13 to 15.
According to Adalberto Febeliano, executive director of ABAG–the Brazilian business aviation association–the switching of the LABACE dates was driven by revised exhibition hall availability at São Paulo’s TransAmerica convention center and not by uncertainty over the outcome of this month’s Brazilian election. He said that ABAG, which is running LABACE in partnership with NBAA, had always viewed March as a more suitable month for the event but had only been able to book the convention center for January, which is the prime vacation month in Brazil. In August, another show booked for mid-March was switched to another venue.
