Focus on Latin America: Business aviation taking off in Brazil
The future that Brazilians have awaited for so long is at last kicking at the door.

The future that Brazilians have awaited for so long is at last kicking at the door. But the question now, says Francisco Lyra, the blunt-spoken CEO of the Associação Brasileira de Aviação Geral (ABAG, Brazilian Association of General Aviation), is whether Brazil is ready for it?

Brazil today is riding a wave of economic growth, propelled in part by the discovery of deepwater oil fields that by some estimates will yield 80 billion barrels of the increasingly prized and elusive hydrocarbon. That growth has created a surge in business aviation, but it has also unveiled an aviation infrastructure that is, at best, inadequate to meet the anticipated growth.