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Brasília - Nearly a year after having released the airlines to provide discounts on tickets to South America, the National Agency of Civil Aviation (Anac) still does not know the impact report in the pocket of the Brazilian. Already the Brazilian Association of Travel Agency (ABAV) states that the pricing flexibility have not yet had significant effects.
"We are always checking prices and they continue in the same medium," said the director of International Affairs of the Brazilian Association of Travel Agencies (ABAV), Leonel Rossi Junior. "First as a matter of supply and demand because, by the end of 2008, interest in South American destinations was very strong," he added.
In March 2008, when he started the plan of gradual liberalization of international air fares, the Anac said the measure would allow a reduction in prices, the result of increased competition between companies. Divided into three stages, the process of easing price ended in September last year. Since then, companies operating in South America have total freedom to set their prices, not having seen more than a maximum percentage of discounts.
On occasion, the Anac also reported that, while granting the rebate was not mandatory, the new policy served to correct distortions of the values of the passages collected in Brazil and practiced in other countries where companies can set prices freely. The Internet, however, it is easy to verify that, in general, the tickets bought here cost still more expensive than in neighboring countries, even when compared to the amounts charged by the same company.
Sought by the report, informed the Anac not have done any study to assess the impact. According to the advice of the agency, if any deals were in the last ten months and the expectation of technical Anac is that other place after the final season of the year. There is, however, no survey to see if the new policy has helped to lower the regular price.
Rossi, however, relieve the freedom of pricing promotions, claiming that these have occurred long before. Furthermore, he states that even in these cases, price reductions do not reach the expectations originally released by Anac.
"During a weekend when there are fewer executives traveling or outside the high season, prices may fall a bit, but never as much as what was expected. The reductions come on average, 15% or 20%, at most, but only during the promotions. And these [charges] are difficult to achieve, as companies offer few seats, "he said Rossi.
For the chief executive of the Center for Transport Economics, Antitrust and Regulation (Nectar), the research center of Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), Alessandro Oliveira, the fact shows that not just give freedom to lower the tariff price of tickets, is needed to stimulate competition by other means.
"Apparently the Anac deregulate the market, but companies are still asleep. Therefore, we can say that prices do not fall only because of deregulation. We must ensure that new companies entering or expanding in the market, "argues Oliveira.
Source: Agência Brasil
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