Brazil’s federal government started privatizing airports, once a legal monopoly, in 2011. São Paulo, the country’s richest state, not only had its own airline—the extinct VASP, on whose grave LABACE dances annually—but its own string of airports, which it began privatizing in 2017. That same year in July, the Voa SP consortium took over the operation of five airports, the important general aviation fields in Jundiaí and Campo dos Amarais in Campinas, another in Bragança Paulista, and two seaside airports in Ubatuba and Itanhaém.
Another 22 airports in two blocks of eleven were auctioned in 2021, with the Voa SP consortium—part of the same Rede Voa group—winning the Southeast block and control passing this April. These include the Sorocaba general aviation airport, which also has a strong MRO presence, and São Carlos airport, where LATAM performs most of its airliner maintenance, as well as nine others.
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