| Belo Horizonte/Pampulha-Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha-Carlos Drummond de Andrade |
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| IATA: PLU – ICAO: SBBH | |||
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| Airport type | Public/Military | ||
| Operator | Infraero | ||
| Serves | Belo Horizonte | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 789 m / 2,589 ft | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 13/31 | 2,505 | 8,220 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 757,685 | ||
| Aircraft Operations | 66,650 | ||
| Metric tonnes of cargo | 0 | ||
| Statistics: Infraero [1] Sources: Airport Website[2] |
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Pampulha-Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (IATA: PLU, ICAO: SBBH) is an airport serving Belo Horizonte, Brazil, located in the neighborhood of Pampulha. Since December 16, 2004 the airport is also named after the Minas Gerais-born poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987).[3]
The airport is operated by Infraero.
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Pampulha Airport was opened in 1933 as a support facility for the passenger flights operated by the Brazilian Air Force between Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza. The first commercial operation started in 1936, when Panair do Brasil was granted a concession to fly between Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
In 1943 the runway was extended to 1,500m x 45m, in 1953 to 1,700m, and finally in 1961 to 2,505m.
Since 1973 the airport is operated by Infraero.
With the great increase of traffic at Pampulha Airport, the facility became too small and unable to handle all operations. For this reason, the new Tancredo Neves International Airport was built in the adjoining municipality of Confins. The new facility was opened in 1984.
However, due to the long distance between Belo Horizonte and Confins, Pampulha remained the airport of choice for most airlines and Confins was under-used. In order to revert this scenario, in March 2005 the government of the state of Minas Gerais with the support of agencies of the Federal government decided to restrict Pampulha to operations of aircraft with capacity of up to 50 passengers.[4] In the months thereafter, most operations were forced to move to Confins and Pampulha gained a new vocation as a hub for intrastate and inter-adjoining states flights and general aviation.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Passaredo Linhas Aéreas | Ribeirão Preto |
| TRIP Linhas Aéreas | Araxá, Cabo Frio, Campinas-Viracopos, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Diamantina, Dourados, Goiânia, Governador Valadares, Ipatinga, Juiz de Fora-Serrinha, Montes Claros, Patos de Minas, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Rio Verde, São João del-Rei, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Uberaba, Uberlândia, Vitória da Conquista |
The airport is located 8 km (5 mi) from downtown Belo Horizonte.
On 31 August 2009, Infraero unveiled a BRL8.4 million (USD4.4 million; EUR3.1 million) investiment plan to up-grade Pampulha Airport focusing on the preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup which will be held in Brazil, Belo Horizonte being one of the venue cities. The investiment will be distributed as follows:[10]
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