Galeão Airport in RJ reduced the number of daily flights to Guarulhos in SP to 3. The measure will be valid until April 30.
Tom Jobim International Airport (Galeão), informed this morning (31) in a note, changes to prevent the new coronavirus. In line with the essential mesh operation disclosed by the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac), the airport will have its operation and movement reduced to three flights a day.
Reduction of three flights accounting for both landings and departures from Gol Linhas Aéreas, to Guarulhos International Airport, in São Paulo. Early morning activities will be suspended.
Reduction in functioning
According to the concessionaire RIOgaleão, until the end of April, movements at the airport will be reduced. To adapt to this scenario, until the 30th of April, Galeão will suspend its activities during the night. From 11 pm to 5 am, the airport will remain closed to passengers and Members. Until the 20th of April, access to Terminal 2 will be done exclusively through Door B, on the Departures floor, and through Door A, on the Arrivals floor.
The partner in the regulatory law area at VPBG Advogados, Fernando Villela, explains that the new measures are part of the period of adaptation to the operational restrictions resulting from the covid-19 pandemic. Anac has already released the essential network that should be met by April.
essential mesh
Air transport, especially in times of crisis, is a facilitator of access for emergency issues, as it allows timely response to demands for medical equipment and health professionals, for example. It was guaranteed by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Anac and airlines with an essential air network. That allows the daily connection of all the states of Brazil and the Federal District. Cade participated in this plan, as a means of providing greater legal certainty to this agreement.
Still for the lawyer, transport needs federal coordination to allow the maintenance of essential activities in Brazil and the macro planning of the fight against COVID-19.
