Directors of the airlines Azul, Gol, Latam and Voepass had a meeting this Friday (20) with the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, in São Paulo. The meeting served to initiate a dialogue between the sector and the new government.
Companies are seeking support to try to lower the price of aviation kerosene, which represents about 40% of the value of tickets.
“We haven’t made specific demands yet, it was more of a meeting to start a dialogue, without debating technical issues”, said Eduardo Sanovicz, president of Abear (Brazilian Association of Airlines), also present at the meeting.
Sanovicz said that the sector’s total passengers tripled in a decade, in the 2000s, after there was an end to the demand for fixed prices for routes, the so-called freedom of tariffs. “Is it possible to fold [o número de passageiros] in another decade, but it is essential to return to the operating cost conditions that we already had”, he said, referring especially to the price of fuel, the more favorable exchange rate and the general conditions of the economy.
Companies and ministry representatives agreed to hold bimonthly meetings to discuss sector issues. One of the points is that the price of QAV (Aviation Kerosene) in Brazil follows the international price of the sale value abroad, which exposes the value to exchange rate variations and external shocks.
This Friday afternoon, Haddad also had a meeting scheduled with the president of Nubank, David Vélez.
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