The Agenda: Business / Global
Flight problems
Problems at a Rio de Janeiro airport, Scoot CEO Leslie Thng and the family-owned department stores thriving in the US.
Galeão used to be Rio de Janeiro’s busiest airport but traveller numbers have steeply declined, from 17 million in 2014 to less than six million last year. Coronavirus isn’t to blame: other Brazilian airports have returned to or even exceeded pre-pandemic levels. Among them is Santos Dumont, a smaller airport that also serves Rio; more than 10 million people used it last year, making it the country’s fifth busiest (Galeão is 10th). However, its boost in traveller numbers isn’t enough to compensate for Galeão’s losses.
Rio’s mayor, Eduardo Paes, is…
