CADE approves partnership between post office and Blue airline

The Court of the Administrative Council for economic Defense (Cade) approved on Wednesday (13) partnership between the post office and Blue Airlines. The partnership will be the creation of a society to provide cargo service and postal bags for air and land routes. With the approval, the process will be analyzed by the Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU), which evaluates whether the postal service needed or not doing bidding to secure a partnership with blue. The agreement between the postal service and the Blue had already been approved by the Superintendent-General of Cade in December 2018, but the TAM and the extinct OceanAir (today Avianca) filed appeal against the operation, which took the case to trial by the Court of the Council. As the partnership announced in 2017, the 50.01% of the stopping operation Blue, and the post office, 49.99%. Decision To submit the vote on the subject, the Adviser Maurice Oscar Maia Flag, Rapporteur of the case, reiterated that the operation does not raise competition problems. "They were away any concerns competitive because the revenue from the transportation of loads is not significant enough to affect the market for air transport of passengers. Thus, I conclude that the information brought no change in anything the study done by SG [General Superintendency], "he said.