SÃO PAULO · MRO
Brazilian MRO grows as carriers stop ferrying narrowbodies to Miami [MRO brasileiro cresce e pára de enviar aeronaves a Miami]
Domestic capacity is finally sized to keep base maintenance in-country, reversing a decades-old pattern of exporting the work. [A capacidade doméstica finalmente permite manter a manutenção pesada no país.]
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Brazilian carriers have historically ferried narrowbody heavy checks to Miami, exporting both the cost and the hard currency. Domestic capacity is now sized to absorb a growing share of that work, and the ferry pattern is measurably reducing.
The driver is arithmetic rather than policy. A ferry consumes days of utilisation and pays in dollars; domestic work pays in reais and returns the aircraft faster. Once local capacity and approvals exist, the decision makes itself.
Component and engine work remains the gap, as it does across Latin America. Airframe capability is the easier half; the approvals and tooling for engine overhaul take far longer to accumulate.
Our read: watch component shop approvals rather than hangar announcements. That is where the remaining leakage sits.