BRAZIL. Spanish airports group AENA has been awarded the concession to operate 11 airports in Brazil, including the key location of São Paulo Congonhas, following a public auction. The airports are located across the states of São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais and Pará.
The fee for the 30-year concession (with an option for five more) was R$2,450 billion or around €468 million. AENA is also obliged to pay a variable fee consisting of a percentage of gross revenue, which will increase from 3.23% to 16.15% per year.
Infrastructure investments are expected to reach R$5 billion (US$966 million) of which 73% will be carried out during the first phase of the concession, until 2028. The concession contract, the largest for AENA outside Spain, is scheduled to be signed in February 2023. AENA won the business through its subsidiary Aena Desarrollo Internacional.
With 22.8 million travellers a year. Congonhas Airport is the second busiest in terms of passenger traffic in Brazil. In 2019 the group of 11 airports served 26.8 million passengers, or 12% of Brazil’s airport traffic in that year.
The other airports include Campo Grande, Ten. Cel. Aviador Cesar Bombonato, Maestro Wilson Fonseca, Joao Correa da Rocha, Mario Ribeiro, Carajas, Altamira, Mario de Almeida Franco, Corumba and Ponta Pora.
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