Establishment ,
Campinas,
São Paulo,
Brazil The process of creating Braspress Air Cargo began on December 23, 2022, with the issuance of National Registry of Legal Entities (
CNPJ) with the
Special Department of Federal Revenue of Brazil, popularly known as
Receita Federal (RFB). At the same time, the new airline began its approval process with the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil (
ANAC) to obtain its
air operator certificate (AOC). The new airline was founded by Urubatan Helou, CEO of Braspress Transportes Urgentes and his partner, Milton Domingues Petri. Together, on July 1, 1977, they created Braspress, today one of the largest road transport companies in Latin America, with a presence in Brazil,
Bolivia,
Uruguay,
Paraguay and
Argentina, which has its own fleet of 3,090 trucks, 117 distribution centers, 9 thousand direct employees and 4 thousand outsourced workers. In September 2023, it reserved aeronautical registrations through the Brazilian Aeronautical Registry (RAB) system for its first three aircraft, all of them of the
Boeing 737-400BDSF. In January 2024, the first plane, registration PS-BPA ( 29206), was registered in a painting hangar in
Woensdrecht, in the
Netherlands, already wearing the traditional blue and orange colors of the Brazilian carrier, similar to the paint used on the vehicle fleet. On March 3, 2024, the second Braspress Air Cargo plane, registration PS-BPB ( 29207), was officially delivered by the lessor World Star Aviation (WSA) and subsequently ferried between
Liège, in
Belgium, and
São José dos Campos, in Brazil, to be prepared for its new operator at DIGEX MRO, where it will receive the airline's colors. The same plane will be used on certification flights, the last pending step before obtaining the air operator certificate. On April 3, 2024, Braspress and Concessionária Aeroportos Brasil Viracopos, administrator of
Viracopos International Airport, in
Campinas, signed an area transfer agreement that allows the airline to begin installing the necessary infrastructure to begin its operations in the airport in the coming months. Braspress Air Cargo is expected to make its first flight in August, connecting Campinas/Viracopos with
Eduardo Gomes International Airport, in
Manaus. On April 22, 2025, Braspress was granted its
Air operator's certificate. ==Fleet==