Canoas Air Base receives industrial flights from Wednesday

Canoas Air Middle, managed by the Brazilian Air Power (FAB), will function as an airport and can obtain 35 weekly flights, beginning this Wednesday (22). The emergency measure will probably be a substitute for Salgado Filho Worldwide Airport in Porto Alegre (RS), which has been closed indefinitely since Might 6, after the bottom services and the runway got here on land and elimination to be flooded by the flood of Guaíba.

In accordance with the Minister of Ports and Airports, Silvio Costa Filho, and the Minister of the Particular Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic to Assist the Reconstruction of Rio Grande do Sul, Paulo Pimenta, airways can begin promoting tickets from this Tuesday (twenty first Friday). ).

“On Wednesday, Canoas Airport will probably be obtainable to obtain industrial flights. Tomorrow, airways will begin promoting tickets and, from then on, flights will begin which, naturally, depends upon the demand of the airways. [companhias] airways will begin getting them.”

With this announcement, the emergency community may have 134 flights to achieve Rio Grande do Sul each week.

“With one other 6 miles [passageiros] that we are going to have in Canoas, we are able to initially serve 30 thousand passengers per week”, estimates the Minister of the Particular Secretariat, Paulo Pimenta.

The planes take off and land at seven small and medium airports in Rio Grande do Sul and two extra in Santa Catarina.

See the emergency air community:

Caxias do Sul Airport: 39 weekly flights;

Santo Ângelo Airport: 6 flights per week;

Passo Fundo Airport: 21 weekly flights;

Pelotas Airport: 6 flights per week;

Santa Maria Airport: 3 flights per week;

Uruguaiana Airport: 3 flights per week;

Canoas Airport: 35 weekly flights.

Florianópolis Airport: 14 weekly flights;

Jaguaruna Airport: 7 flights per week.