Four months after the end of the term of the self-composition commission, negotiations on the future of the concession for Viracopos International Airport, in Campinas (SP), remain at a standstill. A report that brings together the terms of the agreement between the public authority and the concessionaire was completed, but still depends on approvals.
g1 found that the document, prepared after the completion of work on June 10, 2026, is under analysis by the Attorney General's Office (AGU), which has suggested specific adjustments. The body's approval should only be issued after the electoral period.
After that, the report will be reviewed by the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac) before a press conference is held to announce the terms of the agreement.
The self-composition commission allows for a solution through dialogue between the public authorities and the concessionaire. The group was necessary due to dissatisfaction regarding the current contract and the end of the re-bidding process, determined by the Federal Audit Court (TCU).
Anac's CEO, Tiago Chagas Faierstein, confirmed that negotiations are ongoing "as there are other actors involved", but did not give details due to secrecy.
"This year was atypical due to the elections. That's why it's slower. But we should finish it before the end of the year", he commented.
The concessionaire Aeroportos Brasil Viracopos informed, in a note, "that it will not comment on the matter taking into account the confidentiality agreement (NDA) signed by the parties".
AGU was contacted by g1, but did not return until the last update of this report.
The self-composition commission was created in October 2025, following a request from the concessionaire and the end of the re-bidding process. The table represents the last attempt to keep Aeroportos Brasil Viracopos in managing the terminal.
Understand: with the end of the terminal re-bidding process, operations at the airport could return to the government (enter into obsolescence) or, alternatively, the concessionaire would remain in charge of the terminal. The Viracopos Autocomposition Commission was created to find a solution.
The commission's validity was postponed twice, the last time through an ordinance from the Ministry of Ports and Airports, in April 2026. The group's duration ended on June 10.
In January this year, the Ministry of Ports and Airports confirmed that it was discussing, in the commission, the possibility of including "other assets" in the Viracopos Airport concession. At the time, g1 found that one of the possibilities being studied involved the inclusion of six airports in the North and Northeast in the agreement, three of them in Amazonas (AM), one in Pará, another in Acre and one more in Bahia.
The Viracopos re-bidding process did not progress because the legal deadline for publishing the notice expired on June 2, 2025, as determined by the Re-bidding Law, which provides for two years from the opening of the process. The central impasse was the calculation of the compensation owed by Anac to ABV, both for investments made since 2012 and for possible future reimbursements.
Viracopos, the fifth busiest airport in the country, has been facing a financial crisis since 2017. At the time, the concessionaire filed for judicial recovery and later joined the re-tender, being the first Brazilian airport to adopt this path. As of 2023, with the improvement in financial results and the approval of the Ministry of Ports and Airports, ABV tried to end the re-bidding and resume the amicable solution at TCU, seeking to maintain the contract.
The airport's latest judicial recovery plan was filed in December 2019 and approved in February 2020, following an agreement between the concessionaire, Anac and the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). The court closed the recovery in December 2020, and the re-bidding process began soon after. The notice was approved in August 2021.
With the financial improvement, the airport once again recorded passenger records in 2022 and 2023, which reinforced the concessionaire's argument that continued private management would be more advantageous than a new tender. ABV's total debt reached R$2.88 billion, relating to late grants and bank debts included in the arbitration process.
Currently, Infraero holds 49% of Viracopos shares. The other 51% belongs to UTC Participações (28.41%), Triunfo Participações (68.65%) and Egis (2.94%), which together make up the concessionaire Aeroportos Brasil Viracopos.
In May 2026, g1 announced that one of the discussions involved the anticipation of the second landing and take-off runway, whose construction was linked to a target of 178 thousand landings and take-offs per year. Currently, this number is around 124 thousand movements. The second runway is an old demand and was foreseen in a plan presented by the concessionaire when it took over Viracopos, in June 2012.
