During the opening session today at LABACE 2024, Leonardo Fiuza—chairman of Brazil's business aviation association and show organizer ABAG—said the business aviation industry's greatest short-term hurdle is the country's broad tax reform, with one proposal floating to tax aircraft at the same rate as automobiles. He explained that ABAG is working with other aviation associations, such as those for agricultural aviation and air taxis, “to be present at all the committees studying the matter.”
According to Fiuza, a longer-term challenge is training enough aircraft maintenance technicians, which he suggested should be treated not as a challenge but as an opportunity. “If we're talking about training labor, it means the country is growing, not shrinking,” he said, noting that nearly 1,000 new aircraft have entered the country in the past three years.
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