Brazil's Civil Aviation Council (Conac) on Friday announced new measures to reduce aircraft traffic at the Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo.

 

The announcement was made three days after 190 people died when an Airbus-320 belonging to TAM crashed into a fuel station and exploded.

 

Brazil's Civil Aviation National Agency (ANAC) has 60-days to reallocate the flights of the airlines that use Congonhas.

 

The airport will no longer operate as a stop-over or handle charter flights. It will now only handle direct flights.

 

ANAC will have to revise accords with other countries so it can redistribute foreign flights.

 

The aviation council also asked ANAC to provide more to the families of those killed when TAM flight 3054 crashed.

 

ANAC has three months to present options for a location for a new airport in Sao Paulo, Conac said.

 

Specialists have said that the operations systems at Congonhas are not viable.

 

Congonhas is located in the center of Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo and is the busiest airport in South America.

 

(Xinhua News Agency July 23, 2007)