Mr Broad, do you know where one of the longest runways in the Uk is? Doncaster..now known as Robin Hood Airport....only recently developed by your friends at Thomson Fly. Has it become a major transit route and opened up the local economy? There is a vast difference between a new airport and a new hub....if the brazilian Govt be it federal or Local are so confident about it, why seek investment from outside? Clearly you cannot have a hub in place without the infrastructure, by two swallows do not make a summer and it seems to me that many are clinging onto the hope that this airport will be the starting point for the oversold and underinvested boom that is allegedly on the way.
Brazil has potential but it is way way behind other parts of the world like Middle East and Far East, clearly this is why it is cheap....but what seems clear to me is that real tourist investment has not gone in......I just paid the same price as a Pousada on Ponta Negra for a fully furnished "business suite in The Far East, includes flat screen tv, iron, kettle, ac, king bed, free water, safe, dvd and stereo etc etc.........and the flight price was over £200 less than Brazil. Give me onbe good reason why there is going to be a stampede to Brazil for so much less at the same price and get mugged int he process. I am not knocking Brazil, just recognising the reality..something that few seem able to do!
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