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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil is determined to lure airlines to operate domestic flights in Latin America’s largest aviation market, and is taking meetings with at least three carriers, a senior government official told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are going to talk with Jet Blue, we are going to talk with Volaris, a Mexican group … we are going to talk with Sky Airline, which is Chilean,” Ronei Glanzmann, Brazil’s civil aviation secretary, told Reuters on the sidelines of the ALTA Airline Leaders Forum, an industry conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These are conversations to introduce Brazil to them, they do not mean that the airlines are saying that they will come here,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glanzmann said the meetings with Volaris and JetBlue Airways Corp <JBLU<\/a>> will take place on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A representative for Sky said they had canceled their participation in the ALTA conference due to the civil unrest in Chile, but declined to comment on taking a meeting with the Brazilian government. Jet Blue and Volaris did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brazil’s government has recently begun a push to open its aviation market, the largest in Latin America. Right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro has allowed foreign carriers to set up domestic carriers in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Brazil’s domestic air travel market is highly concentrated among three airlines. Until earlier this year, there was a fourth player, Avianca Brasil, but the airline stopped operations in May after filing for bankruptcy operations late last year, highlighting the high risk and volatility of operating in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reaction to Brazil’s liberalization has been slow, but already Spanish airline group Globalia has declared its intention to operate a domestic airline in Brazil. But Glanzmann hopes others will too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His strategy, he said, involves airlines dipping their toes in the Brazilian market first by operating international flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are working first with international routes, but we are already working so that those operations will become domestic operations in the Brazilian market,” Glanzmann said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the past year, four foreign low cost airlines have begun operating international flights to Brazil: JetSMART, which belongs to Indigo Partners, Sky Airline, Norwegian Air Shuttle <NWARF<\/a>> and Argentina’s Flybondi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, some industry watchers are skeptical that anyone will attempt to enter Brazil’s domestic market anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We don’t see anything changing in the short term regarding a new low cost airline operating domestically,” said Eduardo Sanovicz, who heads ABEAR, an industry group that represents Brazil’s two largest airlines. “For a company to start flying in Brazil, they will need to know that they will have the same costs as we do.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil’s carriers have long complained about high costs of operating in Brazil, especially value-added taxes on fuel that can be as high as 25%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Reporting by Marcelo Rochabrun; Editing by Nick Zieminski)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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