Congonhas International Airport
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| Congonhas International Airport | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: CGH - ICAO: SBSP | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Infraero | ||
| Serves | São Paulo | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,631 ft (802 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 17R/35L | 6,365 | 1,940 | Asphalt |
| 17L/35R | 4,708 | 1,435 | Asphalt |
Congonhas International Airport (IATA: CGH, ICAO: SBSP) is São Paulo's second airport, situated 8km from the city downtown, located at Avenida Washington Luís s/nº - Campo Belo. It is administered by Infraero, and as of 2003, was the busiest airport in Brazil, with 12,500,000 passengers passing through it.
In 1957, the airport was the third busiest of the world for cargo and freight.
Its name came from a plant that was common in the area where the airport was built in 1919. It was the city's main airport until 1985, when Guarulhos International Airport was built because of congestion at Congonhas and because Congonhas could not handle transatlantic flights.
Nowadays, the airport continues to be important to the city for regional and short-distance domestic flights. Even with the construction of Guarulhos Airport (35km away from the city's downtown), the Congonhas airport continues to face the problem of congestion, both for the number of passengers and the number of flights.
Its halls are considered one of the more outstanding examples of modern architecture in São Paulo.
Congonhas is the main hub of the largests airlines in Brazil, like TAM Linhas Aéreas and Gol.
[edit] General information
- Number of Passengers: 12,500,000 (2003)
- Main Terminal: 37,311 m²
- Main destinations: Belo Horizonte (flights every 15min), Brasília (flights every 30min), Rio de Janeiro (flights every 15 min)
[edit] Airlines
- BRA Transportes Aéreos (Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Curitiba, Goiânia, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão)
- Gol Transportes Aéreos (Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Campo Grande, Caixas do Sul, Cuiabá, Florianópolis, Foz do Iguaçu, Goiânia, João Pessoa, Joinville, Londrina, Maringá, Navegantes, Porto Alegre, Recife, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumond, São José do Rio Preto, Uberlândia, Vitória)
- Avianca
- Pantanal Linhas Aereas (Araçatuba, Bauru, Marília, Juíz de Fora, Mucuri, Presidente Prudente, Uberaba)
- TAM Linhas Aéreas (Aracaju, Belém, Belo Horzonte-Confins, Belo Horizonte-Pampulha, Brasília, Campinas, Campo Grande, Cuiába, Curitiba, Goiania, Florianopolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, Ilheus, João Pessoa, Joinville, Londrina, Maceió, Manaus, Marabá, Maringá, Natal, Navegantes, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Porto Velho, Recife, Ribeirão Preto, São José do Rio Preto, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador, São Luis, Uberlândia, Vitória)
- TRIP Linhas Aereas (Campinas, Londrina, Maringá, Sinop)
- Varig (Brasília, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont)
[edit] External link
- World Aero Data airport information for SBSP
