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Old 24th Jun 2005, 01:18
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broadreach
 
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If I'm not mistaken it's five or six 733s, three or four 757s and both the 732s. A recent newspaper article mentioned Gol as being ready to take on most if not all the 733s.

WHBM
More or less spot on but it's not Brazil being passed by, just Rio; Sao Paulo's bursting at the seams. Guarulhos is busier every year, hotels sprouting up around it and the new facilities at Congonhas, the downtown airport, are excellent (as long as we don't talk about the traffic).

Rio's basic problem is political; stalemate between federal, state and municipal governments for yonks. Indecision, social violence, rampant corruption, companies moving headquarters to where the market is. Highway from Galećo to town frequently closed down due to crossfire between rival drug gangs and/or the police. SDU's (Santos Dumont, the downtown Rio airport) being restricted to Rio-SP shuttle flights, with all others transferred to Galećo (damn, after all the name changes I can't even remember the code!) while SDU revamp the terminal, seems to have driven even more traffic away.

Someday, surely, it will all be resolved. In the meantime we all grow older and one's stomach churns for the friends in Varig. Apologies for the rant.
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