UK-Brazil Conversa 2024 Summary
The UK-Brazil Conversa 2024 took place in São Paulo, Brazil. Read Canning House's full summary of all discussions at the conference.
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Airlines try to fly out of trouble
Latin American Economy & Business Report
06/2020 - Airlines try to fly out of trouble
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, and resultant quarantine measures and travel bans, has hit Latin America’s airlines particularly hard. This emerging crisis in Latin American air travel has been highlighted by three separate events taking place within the space of a month. On 28 April US aircraft company, Boeing, pulled out of a long-negotiated US$4.2bn deal to buy the civil aviation business of Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer. Then, on 10 May, Colombia-based Avianca, Latin America’s second largest airline, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a US court. This was followed on 28 May by a similar filing from Latam Airlines Group, the largest Latin American passenger carrier.
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