Brazilian airlines are rejoicing after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed a measure that would have mandated free checked baggage on domestic and international flights.
Bolsonaro Vetoes Bill Which Would Have Mandated Free Checked Baggage In Brazil
Under the Federal Constitution of 1988, Brazil’s president enjoys a line-item veto of legislation, subject to override by an absolute majority in the Brazilian Congress. While Bolsonaro signed a bill which seeks to reduce red tape in the high-regulated airline industry in Brazil, he vetoed an amendment that would have mandated one complimentary checked bag per ticket, including:
- up to 23 kilograms (51 pounds) on domestic flights
- up to 30 kilograms (66 pounds) on international routes
After issuing the veto, his office issued a statement explaining the decision:
“Said proposal would increase the costs of airline services and regulatory risks, reducing the attractiveness of the Brazilian market to potential new competitors and contributing to an increase in air ticket prices.”
The news boosted local airline stocks, with shares of Gol Linhas Aereas and Azul SA jumping. Congress could decide to override the veto (an absolute majority would be required via secret ballot in both the Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate), but a special legislative session would have to be called.
Airlines claimed the rule, if imposed, would lead to higher ticket prices for consumers who chose to travel light and would undermine the regulatory reforms which seek to make Brazil a more competitive nation for air travel. Already, airfare is up 89% over the last year.
CONCLUSION
President Bolsonaro of Brazil has vetoed a measure that would have mandated airlines provide a complimentary checked bag on both domestic and international itineraries. The widely-expected decision sent airline stocks surging, but Congress may still choose to override the veto.
As a Brazilian, I agree. Perhaps the only positive attitude in four years of that idiotic and corrupt president.
Good luck picking between him and Lula. It makes Brandon look like a good president.
I don’t like Lula very much, but compared to lunatic Bolsonazi, he would be FDR. Is an improvement.
LOL, a low threshold but true. Unfortunately, Bolsonaro still has much work to be done. For instance, women are currently allowed to vote and he feels he needs to change that.
Bolsonsaro is devastating the Amazon forest. He needs to be arrested, water boarded and then sentenced to a life sentence. All the liberal virtue signaling hypocrites need to save the amazon instead of telling us to buy EV and suck through paper straws.
Get out of your cave and go to the Amazon check it out. What you read online is very different from the reality.
Is worst.
But according to Bolsonazi, it is indians and Greenpeace fault. They are the ones who burn the forest.
I hope he will be arrested, but he will try to do do a military coup first.
Is really sad to see those extremists coming out of the sewers…
Wake up Ricardo. You are probably from the internet generation that has never been in the Amazon. You believe in Santa Claus. Well, sorry to tell you he doesn’t exist.
What? Santa Claus doesnt exist?
And who gives me so many toys in Christmas? The Easter bunny?
But no, unfortunately the internet appeared when I was already married with children. I would have had a lot more sex if it existed when I was young..
Um grande abraço!
The media is so unfair to Bolsonaro. So unfair. There’s going to be so much fraud in the upcoming election. So much fraud. Sleepy Luiz hasn’t come out of his basement in months, and every time he does, he’s wearing the biggest mask you’ve ever seen.
That’s gold, Jerry! Gold!
I despise Bolsonaro but I’ll take him over Lula or Brandon. He is an insane spectacle, but his policies are less guided by corruption than Lula or total economic illiteracy and demagoguery like Biden.
As a Brazilian traveler I see this as a net positive: Let the people with the bag’s pay for them, and the people without them get the benefit. We also need a sharp reduction on the tax of jet fuel which makes Brazil a very unattractive place to fly. Bolsonaro has been a lousy President but has had a rather sane aviation policy, privatizing a lot of airports (which could never happen in the USA) and refusing to bail out airlines letting LATAM go bankrupt and placing the financial burden on their shareholders and creditors rather than on taxpayers as happened in the USA.
Based on polling, it appears JB has a long way to go to catch Lula.
Selfishly, I recall the dreaded reciprocity visa for US citizens when Lula was in power. I’d rather see him lose than have that annoying thing come back.
The brazilian airport privatization program began in 2011, with the “socialist” Dilma, another lousy president. Bolsonaro is simply privatizing the ones that remain.
In Latin America, Brazil will grow only less than Paraguay and Haiti in 2022. Bolsonaro managed to make even Colombia’s GDP per capita larger than Brazil, and eliminated any attempt to investigate corruption in his government, intervening the Federal Police, just when they began to investigate his crazy sons.
Lula never spent money for any airline, or tried to create some state owned company.
Not to mention the almost 700,000 deaths from Covid. Like a Banana Republic, Doctor Bolsonaro awarded himself the highest Brazilian medical award last year, based on his recommendations for chloroquine and ivermectin.
Not to mention the Amazon, the gay and women’s rights, the rise of religious fanaticism, the eternal threat to democracy, the economic disaster…
He is a guy without any ethical, intellectual and psychological capacity to be president.
Is really sad.
Sorry, Brazil economy only will grow MORE than Haiti and Paraguay in Latin American this year.
‘Patriotism is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel’,
Probably corrupted president received undertable money to veto this legislation , which is in my opinion not bad. Till few years ago Brasil was last country where fuel fee was forbidden to be charged . It was great for award tickets. Not sure how is now.