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LABACE Takes Flight at New Campo de Marte Airport Home

The 20th edition of LABACE is the first outside its long-time Congonhas Airport venue

ribbon cutting at LABACE 2025 — The ribbon cutting ceremony at LABACE 2025. © Richard Pedicini/AIN

By Richard Pedicini • Contributor - South America

August 6, 2025

LABACE opened yesterday at São Paulo Campo de Marte Airport, a new venue for the event, but with amplified energy, perhaps driven by remarkable industry growth numbers. “For the first time, they’re all in double digits,” Flávio Pires, CEO of Brazilian business aviation association and LABACE organizer ABAG, said in his opening address. “Business jets are up 18%, turboprops 13%, turbine helicopters 10%,” with the Brazilian business jet fleet reaching 10,940 aircraft as of June.

The 20th edition of LABACE is the first outside its long-time home at São Paulo Congonhas Airport, from which it was expelled by construction to expand airline passenger capacity. Several pillars of ABAG and LABACE, such as TAM Aviação Executiva and Lider Aviação, also were forced to relocate from their Congonhas bases of more than 50 years to make way for the passenger terminal expansion.

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