With regard to your stats, I would comment as follows. Are these figures all arrivals or just international arrivals? I would guess almost certainly all arrivals. In in which case there is growth in internal travel and actually no evidence of a huge growth in "international arrivals". Even if they are international arrivals these figures are miniscule compared to European airports. I stick to my assertion that there are not enough flights direct into Natal from Europe (forget N America, complete waste of time) either now or planned for 2008 and in reality there aren't the airlines around to do them anymore. Thomson/1st Choice are merging...Airtours are merging with T Cooke..thats the UK travel industry. As for scheduled there is Virgin, BMI and BA and BA definitely won't go direct to NE Brazil, now or never! That maybe leaves Virgin, a big maybe. So now there is growth, now we know there will be a massive airport which airlines are actually going to fly there from the UK? Sorry, but the arguements still do not stack up. North America doesn't really have charter airlines..tourists use scheduled airlines and make up their own package. AA masquerades as having flights to cities in Brazil but if you read the facts they are actually AA flights to Rio/SP then TAM internally, they do not fly direct to anywhere else in Brazil. I don't think United or Continental even go to Brazil. From Europe you have KLM, Airfrance, Lufhansa and Iberia. Guess where direct...Rio/SP. Air France also pretend to have direct flights to Salvador, Natal and Recife but again these are code share of TAM internal flights from..you've guessed it Rio/SP.