Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport

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Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport
Dois de Julho International Airport
IATA: SSA – ICAO: SBSV
Summary
Airport type Military/Public
Operator Government
Location Salvador, Brazil
Elevation AMSL 20 m / 64 ft
Coordinates 12°54′39″S 38°19′51″W / -12.91083, -38.33083
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 3,005 9,859 Asphalt
17/35 1,519 4,985 Asphalt

Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (IATA: SSA, ICAO: SBSV), more commonly known as it was formerly named: Dois de Julho International Airport. It is located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It is administered by Infraero, and lies 20 km north of downtown Salvador. In 2007, the airport handled 5,920,573 passengers and 91,043 aircraft movements[1], placing it 5th busiest airport in Brazil in terms of passengers.

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[edit] History

The airport was founded in 1925, and was completely rebuilt in 1941 by Panair do Brasil ("necessities of war", declared the American and the Brazilian governments). Its old name was Santo Amaro do Ipitanga.

In 1955, the airport changed its name to Dois de Julho, and, in 1998, to the present name, although Salvador's inhabitants mostly continue to refer to the airport by the older name Dois de Julho.

In 2000, the airport went under a major renovation which made the airport one of the most modern airports in Brazil.

[edit] General information

  • Main terminal: 69,400 m²
  • Number of fingers: 24
  • Capacity: 6,000,000 passengers
  • Passengers (2007) - 5,920,573[1]
  • Direct jobs: 4,000

[edit] Airlines and destinations

  • Abaeté Linhas Aéreas (Guanambi, Bom Jesus da Lapa)
  • Aerostar (Morro de São Paulo, Lençois, Itaparica)
  • Air Europa (Madrid)
  • American Airlines (Miami [seasonal])
  • Air Plus Comet (Madrid)
  • Air Italy (Milan-Malpensa, Natal)
  • Andes Líneas Aéreas (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza)
  • Avianca
    • Avianca operated by OceanAir (Brasilia, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Macéio, Recife, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Ilhéus, Vitoria da Conquista, Montes Claros, Lisboa [seasonal])
  • Condor Airlines (Frankfurt, Berlin)
  • Edelweiss Air (Zurich)
  • EuroAtlantic Airways (Lisbon, Sal)
  • First Choice Airways (London-Gatwick [seasonal], Manchester [seasonal])
  • Flex (Recife, Rio de Janeiro)
  • Iberworld (Madrid)
  • Gol (Aracaju, Asunción, Belém, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Belém, Boa Vista, Brasília, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campinas, Campo Grande, Chapecó, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Córdoba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, Goiânia, Ilhéus, Joinville, João Pessoa, Juazeiro do Norte, Londrina, Macapá, Maceió, Manaus, Maringá, Montevideo, Natal, Navegantes, Palmas, Petrolina, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Recife, Rio Branco, Rosario, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santarém, Santiago, São Luís, Teresina, Uberlândia, Vitória)
  • LAN Airlines (Santiago)
  • Livingston (Macéio, Milan-Malpensa)
  • Neos (Milan-Malpensa)
  • Orbest (Lisbon)
  • Sata Internacional (Lisbon, Porto Seguro)
  • Sky Airline (Santiago)
  • TAM Airlines (Belem, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Buenos Aires, Campinas, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, Ilhéus, London-Heathrow [seasonal], Manaus, Miami, Milan-Malpensa, Natal, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Porto Seguro, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Luis, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Vitoria, Vitoria da Conquista)
  • TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Porto)
  • Passaredo (Vitoria da Conquista, Brasilia, Barreiras, Ribeirão Pareto, São Paulo - GRU)
  • TAAG (Luanda, Rio de Janeiro)
  • Star Airlines (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
  • VARIG (São Paulo - GRU, Rio de Janeiro - GIG, São Paulo - Congonhas)
  • WebJet (Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Recife, Maceió, Belo Horizonte)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Airport statistics for 2007 http://www.infraero.gov.br/upload/arquivos/movi/mov.operac.1207.pdf

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