Porto Alegre’s Airport to renew dealing with business flights subsequent week
It has been over six months for the reason that Salgado Filho Airport’s runway was below water
Brazilian authorities introduced Friday that Porto Alegre’s Salgado Filho Worldwide Airport (POA/SBPA) within the State of Rio Grande do Sul can be reopening Monday after months of being inoperational given the unprecedented floods. The measure can be carried out as scheduled: airways have been promoting tickets for these flights since August.
Earlier than Christmas, the airport can be 100% operational, [including] worldwide flights, assured Presidential Communications Secretary Paulo Pimenta in a video posted on social media. He and Ports and Airports Minister Silvio Costa Filho landed Friday morning at Salgado Filho aboard a Brazilian Air Power (FAB) plane to take part within the reopening ceremony.
Operations can be returning regularly. At first, solely 128 day by day landings and take-offs by Azul, Gol, and Latam can be dealt with between 8 am and 10 pm.
Salgado Filho Airport has been closed to air operations for the reason that heavy rains and floods that hit the state final April, which left the airport runway submerged for 23 days.
Additionally current at Friday’s occasion have been Fraport Brasil CEO Andrea Pal, Rio Grande do Sul Lieutenant Governor Gabriel Souza, and Porto Alegre Deputy Mayor Ricardo Gomes.
The federal authorities contributed R$ 426 million (US$ 74.83 million) to Fraport’s efforts to get the air terminal again in service. We have to rebuild what was misplaced. We have to be sure that a scenario like this by no means occurs once more. We’ll construct a contemporary, environment friendly containment system that brings safety, in order that firms can work, in order that businesspeople have peace of thoughts, but additionally in order that households can reside of their neighborhoods, Pimenta burdened.
Throughout Friday’s occasion, Gomes criticized those that tried to pin the airport’s mishap on the native administration and insisted that such an quantity of water might have by no means been foreseen. The amount of water that was wanted to flood this runway with the peak that the water reached, in itself speaks, I’d say, of the irresponsibility of those that tried to attribute the quantity of water that arrived right here to at least one or two pump homes, or to a single floodgate, he stated.
