Regulations and Government
ABAG Angered By Political Appointments to ANAC Board
ABAG and other industry associations resisted new appointments to the ANAC board based on political favors.

The week before the 2015 LABACE show, a Brazilian Senate committee overwhelmingly approved President Dilma Rousseff’s controversial nominations of non-aviation professionals to two of the five seats on the National Civil Aviation Commission (ANAC). An outgoing commissioner with 32 years of aviation experience will be replaced by Ricardo Fenelon Júnior, a 28-year-old lawyer and son-in-law of a Senate caucus leader, Senator Eunício Oliveira. Several aviation groups, including business aviation association ABAG, objected to Fenelon’s nomination, as well as to that of José Ricardo Queiroz, who also has very little experience in aviation.


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