Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport

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Rio de Janeiro/Galeão
Antônio Carlos Jobim
International Airport
Aeroporto Internacional do Rio de Janeiro/Galeão
Antônio Carlos Jobim

IATA: GIG – ICAO: SBGL
Summary
Airport type Public/Military
Operator Infraero
Location Rio de Janeiro
Elevation AMSL 9 m / 28 ft
Coordinates 22°48′32″S 43°14′37″W / -22.80889, -43.24361
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 4,000 13,123 Concrete
15/33 3,180 10,433 Asphalt

Rio de Janeiro/Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport (IATA: GIG, ICAO: SBGL) better known as Galeão International Airport is Rio de Janeiro's major international airport. The second name of the airport is in honor of Brazilian musician Antônio Carlos Jobim.

Built in 1952 on Governador Island, approximately twenty kilometres from the city center, by 1970 the airport was Brazil's major air-hub. In that year, its administration was assumed by Infraero, an agency recently created by the Brazilian government. In 1977, at which time it was receiving all of Brazil's major international flights, the airport underwent a major renovation.

In 1985 the airport lost the title of the country's major international airport to São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, due to a drop in passengers to/from abroad. Infraero built a second terminal on the site at a cost of US$600 million, which is capable of handling 7.5 million passengers annually, more than doubling the airport's capacity. Until 2004, passenger numbers had remained stable at about 4.5 million per year, but this number has subsequently increased. In 2007, Galeão International Airport handled 10,352,211 passengers and 119,890 aircraft movements, placing it 4th busiest airport in the country in both categories[1].

Galeão was Infraero's second-most idle and money-losing airport (after Confins International Airport), and was considered by many to be a waste of resources. At the time the new terminal was opened, Guarulhos was overloaded, operating at 102% of capacity, against 24% for Galeão. Infraero was criticized for not investing resources appropriately. However, since late 2004, most flights from the overloaded downtown Rio airport Santos Dumont Regional Airport were reassigned to Galeão.

The airport is also a second international hub for Varig.

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[edit] General information

The airprt contains two terminals (in an elliptical format, with twelve jetways each) capable of handling 7.5 million passengers annually

  • 2005 — 8.6 million passengers
  • 2006 — 8.75 million passengers
  • 2007 — 10,352,211 passengers[1]

[edit] Airlines and destinations

  • Aerolineas Argentinas (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza)
  • Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
  • American Airlines (Miami, New York-JFK)
  • Avianca (Bogota)
    • OceanAir (Curitiba, Brasília, Fortaleza, Juazeiro do Norte, Petrolina, Salvador, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Recife)
  • British Airways (London-Heathrow)
  • Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)
  • Copa Airlines (Panama City)
  • Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
  • Gol (Aracaju, Asunción, Belém, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Belo Horizonte-Pampulha, Belém, Boa Vista, Brasília, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campina Grande, Campo Grande, Caxias do Sul, Chapecó, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Córdoba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, Goiânia, Ilhéus, Imperatriz, Joinville, João Pessoa, Juazeiro do Norte, Londrina, Lima, Macapá, Maceió, Manaus, Marabá, Maringá, Montevideo, Natal, Navegantes, Palmas, Panama City, Petrolina, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Porto Velho, Recife, Riberião Preto, Rio Branco, Rosario, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Salvador, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santarém, Santiago, São José do Rio Preto, São José dos Campos, São Luís, Teresina, Uberlândia, Vitória)
  • Iberia (Madrid)
  • LAN Airlines (Santiago de Chile)
  • Livingston (Milan-Malpensa, Porto Seguro)
  • Mexicana (Mexico City) [begins November 1, 2008]
  • PLUNA (Montevideo)
  • TACA
  • TAM Brazilian Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) (Belém, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campinas, Curitiba, Florianopolis, Foz do Iguaçu, Londrina, Campo Grande, Fortaleza, João Pessoa, Maceió, Manaus, Miami, Natal, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Recife, Salvador, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Vitoria)
  • TAM Mercosur (Asunción, Buenos Aires)
  • TAAG Angola Airlines (Luanda)
  • TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Porto)
  • United Airlines (Washington-Dulles)
  • Varig (Brasília, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Vitória, Recife)
  • WebJet Linhas Aéreas (Brasília, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Belo Horizonte-Pampulha, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Salvador)

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[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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