Brazil aims to jointly tender Rio de Janeiro's two airports by mid-2023

Brazil’s government aims to jointly tender concessions to run Rio de Janeiro’s Galeao and Santos Dumont airports by the end of the first half of 2023, Infrastructure Minister Tarcisio de Freitas said on Thursday. RIOgaleao, the current concession-holder of Tom Jobim International Airport, as the city’s main hub is also known, announced earlier on Thursday it had told the government it plans to return its holding due to the impacts of COVID-19 on the aviation sector. The government had been hoping to tender the city’s smaller Santos Dumont airport this year, along with various others. <br/>