Infraero must cut 1,500 employees in the Voluntary Resignation Program

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Restructuring will be carried out after the conclusion of the bureaucratic process that involves the 7th round of airport concessions, said the Secretary of Civil Aviation of the Ministry of Ports and Airports, Juliano Noman. Infraero must cut 1,500 employees in a voluntary resignation program. Infraero/Disclosure Infraero should cut 1,500 employees after the conclusion of the bureaucratic process involving the 7th round of airport concessions, said the Civil Aviation Secretary of the Ministry of Ports and Airports, Juliano Noman, this Monday (24 ). According to Noman, the restructuring will be carried out through the Voluntary Dismissal Program (PDV). With this, the staff should be reduced from 2,000 to 500. The seventh round of concessions was held in 2022, the last year of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, and included the concession of Congonhas airport, in São Paulo. “In the concession of the seventh round, an amount is foreseen to pay Infraero’s PDV”, he said, at an event in Rio de Janeiro, adding that these funds have already been deposited. “The company already has cash in hand to proceed with the POS. The plan is that, of the 2,000 employees, 500 will remain. And then, with 500 employees and with Santos Dumont, the company would be completely sustainable”, he said. Santos Dumont airport, in Rio de Janeiro, was even listed for the 7th round, but was later withdrawn due to fears of predatory competition effects on Galeão airport, also in Rio. After the completion of the entire bureaucratic process of granting the terminals of the seventh round, Santos Dumont will be the only airport under full administration by Infraero, which also maintains a minority stake in terminals tendered to the private sector. The state-owned company also has service provision contracts for ten regional airports, according to the secretary. This “new” Infraero will play a key role in stimulating regional aviation in Brazil. “The government wants to direct and organize Infraero to have a relevant role in regional aviation. With the resources received from the big airports, finance operation and construction in places less provided with infrastructure”, he said. Emptying of Galeão Representatives of the Rio de Janeiro city and state governments are going to have a meeting with the Minister of Ports and Airports, Márcio França (PSB), to deal with the emptying of Galeão airport. Rio authorities claim that Santos Dumont had a movement of around 10 million passengers in 2022, above the total capacity of the airport. The Galeão concession took place in 2013, during the Dilma Rousseff (PT) government, after a successful bid of 19 billion reais. The concession has a term of up to 2039, but the operator Changi even expressed interest in returning the terminal due to the lack of prospects for demand. The Singapore company would have gone back and now awaits the outcome of negotiations between governments. Governor Cláudio Castro (PL) and Mayor Eduardo Paes (PSD) said this Monday that, if there is no solution to the crisis involving Galeão, they could take measures against Santos Dumont. “This theme has already been debated too much. The airport (Santos Dumont) has to have its capacity limited to 6 million people. Final point. Galeão has to be the ‘hub’ of Rio”, said Paes. “One cannot cannibalize the other,” he added. Castro said that if he and Paes leave the meeting with the ministry and realize “that there is no will to resolve it, the two of us will gather our team to find out what measures to take.” “But, as I said, we don’t want this meeting tomorrow to become a knife in the neck”, stated the governor.

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