📋 Tender Overview
Launched exactly one year ago by the Ministry of Ports and Airports (MPOR), the VOA Brazil program reached on Wednesday about 45,000 reserves of tickets of up to R 200 for INSS retirees. The number would be sufficient to fill more than 344 aircraft with the beneficiaries, moving 87 airports from all states.
Voa Brasil was launched by the MPOR National Secretariat of Civil Aviation in partnership with airlines, who pledged to make tickets available on the site gov.br/voabrasil during the first year of the program. The idea was to offer idle passages and in low season to give access to retirees who had not traveled in the last 12 months.
The program gives this group of Brazilians the opportunity to have access to national air transport and this is very positive, says Tome Franca, secretary of civil aviation and acting minister. Voa Brasil rescues the retirees self -esteem, gives the possibility of taking a first plane trip or even reviewing relatives I havent seen for years.
Among the most sought after destinations in these 12 months of the program are, in the order: Sao Paulo (12,771 passengers), Rio de Janeiro (3,673), Recife (3,509), Brasilia (3,000), Fortaleza (2,843), Salvador (2,601), Joao Pessoa (1,587), Maceio (1,507), Belo Horizonte (1,254) and Christmas (1,150).
The Southeast and Northeast regions concentrated, respectively, 43 and 40% of the total reserves made since the beginning of the program. The third most sought after by retirees was the Midwest (8%), followed by the South (5%) and the North (3%).
In total, there were 510 different excerpts sought by the retirees, the most busy between the state capital and the northeastern capitals, Recife, Salvador, Maceio, Fortaleza and Joao Pessoa (round trip). There are long -distance stretches, such as Porto Alegre/Recife or Sao Paulo/Fernando de Noronha (four hours of flight), and short stretches, such as the Rio/Sao Paulo Air Bridge or within the same state, such as Salvador/Porto Seguro.
Special Advisory of Social Communication Ministry of Ports and Airports
