Brazil will build over 800 new regional airports, said President Dilma Rousseff.
- Figures in Brazil are big. We plan 800 regional airports to cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, the president told French business leaders at a seminar in Paris on Wednesday.
She says that Brazil is a country the size of a continent. The country needs more rail, but many people have no alternative but to travel by plane.
- We want all cities of over 100,000 inhabitants to have an airport within 60 miles, she said.
Brazil, which has 194 million inhabitants of a territory which is 17 times the size of Spain, is planning to upgrade its dilapidated infrastructure in the coming years.
Among other things, the capacity of the country's airports blasted after air transport increased by over 120 percent in the past decade as a result of that 30 million people have been lifted out of poverty and have started to fly for the first time.
Article translated from Norwegian:
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/ur...ge-800-nye-flyplasser-7068888.html
Interesting developments. People are gonna be put to work in Brazil, that's for sure. I'm guessing that more aircraft orders are on it's way too in the comming years ...
