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Bizav Rises To The Olympic Challenge, But Traffic Breaks No Records

Brazil's business aviation community did a good job of handling traffic associated with Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Games.

The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro provided both a challenge and an opportunity for Brazilian business aviation. It rose to the challenge, but didn't find quite the degree of opportunity it had anticipated. [Photo: Rio 2016 Olympics]

By Richard Pedicini • Contributor - South America

August 25, 2016

On August 22, the day after Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Games came to an end, the city’s Galeão/Tom Jobim International Airport welcomed its largest number of passengers ever, and the largest passenger aircraft with the first visit by an Airbus A380. A new terminal inaugurated in May with 26 new gates helped meet the demand, which was double the usual daily traffic, as well as techniques learned from other Olympics, such as pre-check-in for athletes at the Olympic Village. And there were Brazilian touches: concessionaire RIOGaleão advised international passengers who weren’t part of the “Olympic family” to arrive six hours before their flights, and then brought in food trucks to reinforce the airport’s normal offerings, and a samba school to make the wait into a party.

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