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AIRPORTS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL
LATINAMERICA & CARIBBEAN (ACI-LAC)
2010 passenger growth by ACI-LAC airports: 9.1%
2010 Average worldwide passenger growth: 4.8%
Major new & recent airport projects (> US$ 500 million)
Note: Historical dollar exchange rates!
SOUTH AMERICA (compiled by Momberger Airport Information)
Brazil
US$ 7.5 billion
Buenos Aires
São Paulo
Lima
Bogotá
US$
US$
US$
US$
US$
Quito
US$ 683 million
1.3 billion
570 million
1.12 billion
1 billion
900 million
Modernization of Infraero airports for 2014 FIFA
championship and 2016 Olympic Games
“Nueva Ezeiza” project
Facelift at Ezeiza to double passenger capacity
New airport to replace Congohas
Planned second runway
Master Plan work till 2030; $650 million until 2011
for new terminal
Completely new airport at Tumbaco by mid-2010
Total of US$13.073 billion
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Rank
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Airport
São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport (GRU)
El Dorado International Airport (BOG)
Congonhas-São Paulo Airport (CGH)
Brasília International Airport (BSB)
Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport (GIG)
Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)
Simón Bolívar International Airport (CCS)
Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)
Ministro Pistarini International Airport (EZE)
Santos Dumont Airport (SDU)
Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (SSA)
Jorge Newbery Airport (AEP)
Tancredo Neves International Airport (CNF)
Salgado Filho International Airport (POA)
Guararapes International Airport (REC)
Total pax traffic of all 15 airports in 2010
City served
São Paulo
Bogotá
São Paulo
Brasília
Rio de Janeiro
Santiago
Caracas
Lima
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro
Salvador
Buenos Aires
Belo Horizonte
Porto Alegre
Recife
Country
Brazil
Colombia
Brazil
Brazil
Brazil
Chile
Venezuela
Peru
Argentina
Brazil
Brazil
Argentina
Brazil
Brazil
Brazil
Passengers
26,849,185
18,934,203
15,499,462
14,367,061
12,229,513
11,064,487
10,783,861
10,278,493
8,786,807
7,822,848
7,696,307
7,558,149
7,261,064
6,676,216
5,958,982
171,766,638
growth
23.50%
27.10%
13.10%
17.60%
3.40%
22.60%
22.90%
17.00%
10.87%
53.40%
9.13%
16.47%
29.26%
19.10%
13.49%
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El Dorado International Airport
Bogota, Colombia
São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, Brazil
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport
(GIG)
Santos Dumont Airport (SDU)
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Ministro Pistarini International Airport
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport
Santiago, Chile
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Airport privatization overview South America
Country
Argentina
Airport(s)
53 CRA-run airports
to be privatized in
several batches; 32
of these now
privatized
Brazil
São Paulo
Chile
All airports
Santiago
Antofagasta
Remarks
After several setbacks in the privatization of the country's Air Force-run
airports, President Carlos Menem once again introduced a decree on
airport privatization in August 1997; 33 airports were acquired by the
Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 consortium led by SEA SpA (Milan Airports;
28%) and Ogden Aviation (28%), with CAS (Eduardo Eurnekian), Simest
and Riva owning the remainder of the shares; since Ogden has
withdrawn from the consortium, Exxel (the majority owner of the
InterBaires duty-free operator) has taken a share
Congonhas and Viracopos to be privatized; at other INFRAERO airports,
private investors can own commercial facilities (carparks, parking
garages, airport hotels, etc.)
Private investment welcome; an action plan is being formulated. Lessees
can own and operate commercial and non-commercial services, but not
ATC and airport security
Terminal operated by SCL Terminal Aéreo Santiago S.A., owned by
Agencias Universales S.A. - Agunsa (47%), SABCO (13%), Dragados
Concesiones e Infraestructura S.A., Spain (15%), Fomento de
Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) S.A. (15%), Administradora S.A.
(13%) and (Vancouver) YVR Airport Services (10%)
Owned and managed by Colombia’s ISA (60%) and Cintra Chile (40%)
of Grupo Ferrovial, Spain
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Colombia
(70 airports)
Cartagena
Calí
Barranquilla
Bogotá
Ecuador
Guayaquil
Quito
Private investors can own up to 49% of airport companies. Cartagena
was first to be privatized (SMS).
In March 2001, a consortium - in which Aena Internacional
participated with 33.34% - was awarded an international tender for
operating Calí Airport/Colombia for 20 years. The consortium then
became Aerocalí, S.A. and began to be responsible for the airport in
September 2001.
Barranquilla Airport is managed and developed by ACSA -Aeropuertos
del Caríbe, S.A. - in which AENA Internacional has a 38% holding under a 15-year concession.
Spain’s Abertis Infraestructuras owns 85% of Codad, which holds a
concession for the first and second privately-financed runways at
Bogotá Airport. The Government’s strategy is to privatize terminals,
commercial areas, and runways, although the Eldorado runways may
remain the only such runway project.
Operated by TAGSA under a concession; shareholders in TAGSA are
Corporación America/Argentina (51%), Dellair SA/Ecuador (40%),
and Ormond Group S.A./Panama (9%)
New airport being built by Quiport S.A., owned by Aecon Group
Inc./Canada (45.5%), Andrade Gutierrez Constructores/Brazil
(45.5%), and Houston Airport System Development Corporation/USA
(9%). Quiport will operate the airport from 2010 under a 35-year
concession
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Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
There are plans to privatize the country’s major airports (Asunción
and Ciudad del Este) and two smaller airports as a single unit.
The government is set to go ahead with the privatization of
Asunción's Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, a year after
submitting a bill to congress recommending it. The bill to concession
Asunción Silvio Pettirossi and several regional airports has finally
been approved, and President Fernando Lugo must decide whether
to approve or veto the plan. #915
Lima 'Jorge Chavez' Operated under concession by LAP (Lima Airport Partners);
Fraport has a 70.01 percent shareholding in Lima Airport Partners,
followed by International Finance Corporation (IFC) with 19.99
percent and AC Capitales Safi of Peru (Fondo de Inversión en
Infrastructura, Servicios Públicos y Recursos Naturales) with 10.0
percent. Under the 30-year airport concession (with a 10-year option
to extend) Fraport assumed the contractual role of airport manager
and is responsible for operations, security, planning, maintenance
and other activities.
19 domestic airports Concessions offered by CORPAC; the bidding process opened in
September 2004 and includes the airports serving the cities of Anta,
Talara, Tumbes, Chiclayo, Piura, Iquitos, Pucallpa, Chachapoyas, and
Tarapoto
Montevideo & Punta First BOT project completed at Punta del Este by Corporación
del Este
America (CASA), owned by Eduardo Eurnekian; CASA owns the
operator Puerta del Sur
Montevideo-Carrasco tender was won by the Puerta del Sur
consortium in 2003; new terminal opened in December 2009
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Montevideo Carrasco, Uruguay
among top 10 most popular airports
in the world according to a SKYTRAX survey
“Finding contentment in virtually any airport in the
Americas usually depends mainly
on the book and/or beverage in
your hand. One of the few
exceptions to this rule is now
hiding in Uruguay, which garners
the kind of air passenger
enthusiasm that Buenos Aires,
Belize City or Baltimore
can’t even fathom.
People passing through
Montevideo are digging its airport’s
sleek, glassy, curvaceous US$165 million makeover
which was completed a couple of years ago.”
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Brazil’s new plan for privatising three of its largest airports has
drawn criticism from Latin American carriers as well as airline
associations IATA and the Latin American airline association ALTA.
Concerns:
large proportion of the generated revenues would not be reinvested in
modernizing the airports.
IATA Director General Tony Tyler said that Brazil’s airport privatization programme “should open the door to
desperately-needed investment at key airports, especially Sao Paulo”. But Tyler added that while the
programme “is potentially good news … we also have serious concerns.” He said that there was the
possibility for a conflict of interest, with the Government having dual roles as a major shareholder in the
airport concessionaire and the economic regulator.
ALTA criticises:
requirement that the Brazilian Government receive a share of the revenues from
the three privatized airports. ALTA wants to avoid a repeat of the airport privatization processes that
took place in other countries in the region, particularly Argentina and Mexico. Costs increased
significantly following the sale of most of Mexico’s airports, except Mexico City, to
three consortiums which now have profit margins that far exceed the margins at any airline in the
region. In Argentina, more than 30 airports were sold to a single
consortium, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, leading to some of the highest airport
fees in the world.
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Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has signed a concession contract with
consortium Inframérica to build and operate the São Gonçalo do
Amarante international airport in Rio Grande do Norte state capital
Natal. The airport is the first in the country to be privatized as part of a plan to prepare
airports for the 2014 World Cup.
The Brasília airport and São Paulo’s Guarulhos and Viracopos airports are due to be
concessioned by year-end or in early 2012.
Inframérica, which bid USD 92 million for the project in August 2011, is formed of Brazil’s Grupo
Engevix and Argentina’s Corporación América (CASA). The group has three years to build the
airport, after which it will operate it for the next 25 years.
Inframérica plans to invest some USD 363 million in the airport throughout the contract period,
which includes the option of a five-year extension. São Gonçalo do Amarante airport is expected
to handle some 3 million passengers in 2014, reaching 6.2 million in 2024 and 11 million by the
end of the concession period. Momberger Airport Information #918.OPS2
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South America is a promising growth market for suppliers
of airport products, technology and services, at a time when there
is much gloom about the markets in Europe and the United States.
South America needs ‘Smart Airports’ that make best use of available
resources and real estate, especially where new or significantly
expanded airports are not an option in the near term.
The challenge is on for suppliers to help with their state-of-the-art
products and best practices so that the strong growth of the air travel
and air freight markets in South America can continue.
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