LABACE Bizav Show To Shift Venues from Congonhas to Campo de Marte Airport

LABACE 2024

LABACE To Shift Venues from Congonhas to Campo de Marte

New venue to offer more exhibitor space and the possibility of a fly-in

By Richard Pedicini • Contributor - South America

August 6, 2024

LABACE 2024, which opened today, is being held at the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport (SBSP) for the last time, Flávio Pires—CEO of Brazil business aviation association and LABACE organizer ABAG—said yesterday in a pre-show media briefing. Next year, the annual Latin American business aviation show will make its debut at nearby Campo de Marte Airport (SBMT), which is about 2.5 miles northeast of the city center.

The underused area at Congonhas that has been ceded yearly for LABACE will no longer be available as airport operator Aena reconfigures the field to handle more airline traffic and bring it in line with safety requirements. This will mean adaption for business aviation at SBSP—for example, Lider might have to move its main helicopter maintenance hangar and its FBO to the other side of the airport—but Pires assured that Brazil aviation agency ANAC “has said that general aviation will continue at Congonhas.”

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