Talk:Santos Dumont Regional Airport
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"With its heavy aircraft operations (sometimes as many as 1 per minute), the airport implamented the system of slots in 1998." Can this be translated properly into English please? Burgundavia 00:31, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
The airport is very used by people (most businessmen, going to Sao Paulo; other business destinations includes Belo Horizonte, Brasilia and Curitiba, because it is very near the city's downtown; or by people living in one of these cities mentioned above and working in Rio de Janeiro, or vice-versa; living in Rio and working in another city. So, movement in the airport is constant, and airlines dispute every customer that they can have - You see, with a single main runway 1350 meters long, they can't use airplanes larger than 737s (used by Gol, Varig, Vasp) or A319s (used by TAM). In rush hours (7 am to 10 am; 4 pm to 7 pm), aircraft movement is very high (an operation taking place every three minutes, on average; sometimes there is a line of three or four airplanes waiting to take-off); so, the system of slots was introduced, to better control airplanes movement in the airport and avoid major hassles or acidents.
To those who do not know what a slot is in the aviation language (or jargon), a system of slots means that all airplanes using the airport need to take-off or land in a pre-established time (let's say, flight RG-XXX, flying to Sao Paulo, needs to take-off exactly at 7:00 am (because the airline anteriorly reserved that time for its flight). Landing and take-off operations need to be done in time, so, if there is a complication, inj take-offs, the company needs to make another reservation (what can delay the flight in 15 min to almost one hour, depending of the time and the weather); or in landing operations, a larger amount of time is permitted (2 to 10 min) - if time runs out, the airplane needs to land at the far Tom Jobim International. Other well-known airports uses this system, the most well known example is Heathrow International, London's main international airport. In Brazil, Congonhas Domestic Airport uses this system too (it was the first airport in Brazil to do so); Pampulha Regional Airport also used it, but not anymore.
Hope that this resolves the problem. But this information is important (aviation issues), and should be given in both Congonhas and Santos Dumont Airports pages.
ApS Camper 01:57, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
