Aircraft
Synerjet Finds Success at São Paulo Catarina Exec Airport
Company's move from Congonhas to Catarina allowed company to grow and prosper
Pilatus PC-12NGX at LABACE 2024
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“Moving to Catarina [Executive Airport] was a hard decision,” José Eduardo Brandão—CEO of Synerjet, the Pilatus Aircraft distributor for South America—told AIN this week at LABACE 2024. “There had been several attempts at airports that ended in nothing.”

When Synerjet looked at Catarina, there was one hangar ready. Space was offered to Synerjet on the condition of a build-to-suit hangar. “Then the pandemic came,” Brandão recalled, “and we asked [airport developer] JHSF, ‘Do we go ahead?’ and JHSF said, ‘We’ll go ahead’ and I said, ‘Then I will, too.’