Política de indução ao transporte aéreo regional, desenvolvimento e integração em Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to analyze aspects of the Federal Government Program for regional air transportation in Mato Grosso do Sul, the Federal Program of Aid for Airports (PROFAA). We performed a comparative diagnosis of the characteristics presented in the PROFAA of the Dilma Rousseff Government (called "PROFAA 2012-2016") and the Michel Temer Government proposal ("PROFAA 2016 post-cut"), seeking to understand the process of insertion of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul in the mentioned program of induction for regional air transportation, through the counties contemplated. Fieldwork was carried out in the cities selected in the "PROFAA 2012-2016", namely: Bonito, Corumbá, Costa Rica, Coxim, Dourados, Naviraí, Nova Andradina and Três Lagoas. We emphasize that in "PROFAA 2016 post-cut" remained only Dourados. The PROFAA, at its launch, was presented with the objective of favoring national development and democratizing transportation. In addition, said Program, in our opinion, was the most significant governmental action for this modality of transportation in the country, regional aviation. The diagnosis showed that the presence and investments foreseen in the first proposal were very substantial. We also highlight the concern with airport infrastructure and its impacts on economic and social development, and regional integration, they being very relevant in the most "isolated" communities of the country. We point out that regional air transport is still regionalized, in other words, aviation is also regional, but in a reticular logic, of regions in networks and no more regions that are contiguous, in a continuous space. Finally, we conclude that the initial proposal was to advance, induce, and / or develop regional aviation in order to foster regional integration and development, but "post-cut PROFAA 2016" will not allow, it will not achieve this purpose. In this way, we find that it would be possible, and it is pertinent to do, governmental actions, such as the program of induction for regional air transportation, to leverage regional development and integration, having been a mistake to abandon or interrupt this Program.