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Three former employees of Varig airline that has declared bankruptcy, pitched in the arrivals hall of the airport Santos Dumont in Rio de Janeiro, on hunger strike. The former employees are retired and one is already without food for eight days.

Approximately ten thousand employees of the former airline and Transbrasil, are fighting for seven years in court to receive his pension fund deposits Aerus. According to the retired, the money that was collected was not passed to the Aerus, that’s why the fund has no verb.

To endure all this time without eating, protesters drink water and coconut water, but they point out that the lack of suitable feed also brings fatigue, but the hard floor and the noise from the airport is also not conducive to rest.

It was delivered on Thursday (1) feasibility studies of new concessions the two airports, Galeão in Rio de Janeiro, and Confins in Minas Gerais.

Payment amounts granted – how much the winning bidder must pay the government to administer the airport – have changed from what was originally planned.

The value of Galeão airport increased from R$ 4.6 billion to R$ 4.7 billion, while the airport Confins reduced the initial value of R$ 1.6 billion to R$ 1 billion. The initial value of Confins was criticized for being considered a high risk investment.

The government is hoping to auction the two airports in October this year, but TCU still have 45 days to review the studies and decide whether the edict will be published. The auction date can also be changed according to the decision of TCU. After the publication of the notice, companies will have between 30 and 45 days to submit proposals.

Three loans were approved by National Development Bank in the amount of R $ 70.2 million. The amount will be for the construction of new hotels in Porto Alegre (RS), Itaguai (RJ) and Rio de Janeiro.
In the capital of Rio, the hotel will be built on the premises of Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport (Galeão) and shall come into operation in August. The amount of funding for the project isR $ 27.7 million, under the banner of Linx.

Already in Itaguai, the hotel will be under the banner of the Tulip Inn, located at the junction between the BR-101 and RJ-099, with a value of R$ 19.6 million.

To Porto Alegre, for R$ 22.9 million, the hotel will be built in the historic city center and will flag Ibis Budget, which was formerly called Formule 1.

In addition to investment in the hospitality sector is expected to create many jobs during the construction works of the hotels.

According to calculations published by Wellington Moreira Franco, Minister of Civil Aviation, about 500,000 people will pass through the airports of Rio de Janeiro for sanctioning the passage of the Pope by the Brazilian city.

The World Youth Day (WYD), reason for the visit of the Argentine Pope, will be held between 22 and 28 July. The event is expected to attract nearly three million people.

The minister assumed that the event will be a logistical challenge for the authorities in Rio, since the Tom Jobim International Airport is still in the works for the World Cup 2014.

Also according to Moreira Franco, there is a great effort for most of these works will be completed soon and may be offered a good service to tourists who come to Catholic event. Some of these works are to increase the number of bathrooms, improve the escalators and baggage collection area.

To avoid further inconvenience to passengers in the case of closure of the airport Santos Dumont in Rio de Janeiro, and Congonhas in Sao Paulo, the federal government studies create an alternative to expedite care. Santos Dumont and Congonhas airports were the airports wich presented more closing due to bad weather.

On Tuesday (4), there was a meeting between Franco Moreira, Minister of Civil Aviation Secretariat, representatives of the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) and Infraero, aiming to discuss the main points of the plan, which has should be operational in the coming weeks.

The point prioritized is improving the communication, so that passengers can be informed promptly of the reasons for closure and the estimated time for reopening the airport. Shall be an increase in the number of employees so that all passengers can be attended.

It is believed that with this plan, confusion by misinformation can be avoided and passengers are able to program if problems occur.

According to research conducted by the Department of Civil Aviation of the Presidency, the airports of Brasilia, Manaus, Cuiabá and Galeão have the worst ratings among those who attend to tourists who will visit Brazil for the World Cup 2014.

The survey was conducted at 15 airports in the country, accounting for 81% of passenger movement in Brazilian territory, and over 21 thousand passengers gave their opinions on items such as cleaning toilets, waiting time in queues, security, ease to information, treatment by employees, Internet access, among others.

The worst score was in Cuiabá, followed by Galeão Airport in Rio de Janeiro. Infraero and Inframérica (administrator of Airport of Brasilia) reported that research is important so that services can be improved.

The government intends to conduct this survey every three months, in order to improve these items until the World Cup 2014.

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In Aterro do Flamengo, South Zone of Rio de Janeiro, taxi drivers gathered to hold a protest on Tuesday (30). According to information from CBN radio, they occupied two lanes of the road towards Botafogo, near the Monument to Pracinhas, leaving traffic retained on site.

A few hours earlier, they had gathered forming an “SOS” in front of the Santos Dumont Airport, also in Rio de Janeiro.

Taxi drivers were protesting against an injunction of Justice wich intends to prevent widows of the drivers to transfer their autonomy and that other drivers are hired. The injunction requested by one of the unions representing the category actually faces strong opposition from the self-employed.

The Top Global Travel and Tourism of World Economic Forum is the capacity of each country to be competitive in the global tourism. According a study by the Economic Forum, Brazil occupies the 51st position among 140 countries.

The list is led by Switzerland, just ahead of Germany and Austria. In the last positions is Burundi, Chad and Haiti.
Brazil is the best placed seventh country in the Americas and climbed one position, reaching the note 4.37.

The study also ranked the country as the first set due to natural resources and 23 for cultural resources. The improvement in Brazilian placement also indicates an advance against violence that the country has achieved.

Between the problems cited by the survey, are the lack of transport infrastructure and lack of investment in the tourism sector. Regarding the prices of tourism and living costs, Brazil is at 126 º about the competitiveness of their prices.