| Brasília-Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport Aeroporto Internacional de Brasília-Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek |
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| IATA: BSB – ICAO: SBBR | |||
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| Airport type | Public/Military | ||
| Operator | Infraero | ||
| Serves | Brasília | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,060 m / 3,479 ft | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 11R/29L | 3,300 | 10,827 | Asphalt |
| 11L/29R | 3,200 | 10,499 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 14,149,306 | ||
| Aircraft Operations | 176,327 | ||
| Metric tonnes of cargo | 38,994 | ||
| Statistics: Infraero[1] Sources: Airport Website[2] |
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Brasília-Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport (IATA: BSB, ICAO: SBBR) is the airport serving Brasília, Brazil. Since April 22, 1999 the airport is named after Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (1902–1976), the 21st President of Brazil.[3]
In 2010, the airport was ranked 3rd in terms of transported passengers and aircraft operations, and 8th in terms of cargo handled in Brazil, placing it amongst the busiest airports in the country. It is operated by Infraero.
Some of its facilities are shared with the Brasília Air Force Base of the Brazilian Air Force.
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Brasília was only a project when in 1956 President Juscelino Kubitschek landed for the first time in the Central Plateau. However, Vera Cruz Airport, built in 1955 by the then Deputy-Governor of Goiás, Bernardo Sayão, at the request of the chairman of the location of the New Federal Capital, Marechal José Pessoa, already existed. On October 2, 1955, the airport received the first crew of workers that would build the new capital. This facility was located where today is the Integrated Bus and Train Terminal of Brasília. It had a dirt runway of 2,700 meters and a passenger terminal in a makeshift shack cob wall covered with buriti-leaves.[4]
This facility, however, was only temporary. The relocation to a definitive site had already been identified as a priority and construction works started on November 6, 1956. The works lasted for only over six months and required the clearing of an area of 1,334 million square meters, 178,500 square meters of earthwork, base-stabilized 40,900 m², covering 73,500 m², topographical services, positioning and leveling. The runway was designed to have a length of 3,300m but initially it had only 2,400m, and was 45m wide. The passenger terminal was built on wood. On April 2, 1957, the presidential aircraft landed for the first time at the site and the official inauguration took place on May 3, 1957. That year, on the same location the Brasília Air Force Base was also commissioned.[4]
In 1965 Oscar Niemeyer made a project to Brasília Airport to replace the wooden terminal. However, due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, the military-government chose to build the project of Tércio Fontana Pacheco, an architect of the Brazilian Air Force Ministry. The airport is thus one of the few important buildings in Brasília that is not related to Niemeyer.[5] This building was opened in 1971 and since 1990 it is under renovation following an architectural concept of the architect Sergio Roberto Parada.
In 1990 Brasília International Airport underwent its first major renovation and began to gain its present form with a central body and two satellites. The first phase included the construction of an access-viaduct to the passenger terminal and metal cover inaugurated in 1992 and the first circular satellite, inaugurated in 1994. In the second phase, the main body of the passenger terminal was renovated to include a shopping-mall and the satellite received nine jetways. In 2005, a second runway was opened. Presently, the second satellite is under construction.[4]
Because in its design, the present terminal is capable of handling 9 million passengers per year and actually handling 14 million with numbers constantly increasing, the former terminal for general aviation, originally built in 1988, was renovated and transformed into Passenger Terminal 2. It was opened for traffic on August 2, 2010.[6]
On April 26, 2011 it was confirmed that in order to speed-up much needed renovation and up-grade works, private companies will be granted a concession to explore some Infraero airports, among them Brasília.[7] The plan was confirmed on May 31, 2011 and it was added that Infraero would retain 49% of the shares of each privatized airport and that negotioations are expected to be concluded on the first half of 2012.[8]
The Brazilian Integrated Air Traffic Control and Air Defense Center section 1 (Cindacta I) is located in the vicinity of the airport.[9]
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
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| American Airlines | Miami | 1 |
| Avianca Brazil | Aracaju, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Chapecó, Cuiabá, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Ilhéus, João Pessoa, Juazeiro do Norte, Porto Alegre, Porto Velho, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador da Bahia, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos | 1 |
| Azul Brazilian Airlines | Campinas-Viracopos, Foz do Iguaçu, Porto Alegre | 2 |
| Copa Airlines | Panama City | 1 |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta | 1 |
| Gol Airlines | Aracaju, Belém-Val de Cães, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Boa Vista, Campinas-Viracopos, Campo Grande, Cruzeiro do Sul, Cuiabá, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Fortaleza, Goiânia, João Pessoa, Juazeiro do Norte, Macapá, Maceió, Manaus, Marabá, Natal, Palmas, Porto Alegre, Porto Velho, Recife, Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Rosário, Salvador da Bahia, São Luís, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Teresina, Uberlândia, Vitória | 1 |
| Passaredo Linhas Aéreas | Alta Floresta, Barreiras, Belém-Val de Cães, Carajás, Londrina, Porto Alegre, Ribeirão Preto, Salvador da Bahia, Santarém, São José do Rio Preto, Sinop | 1 |
| PLUNA | Montevideo | 1 |
| SETE Linhas Aéreas | Goiânia, Gurupi, Minaçu, São Félix do Araguaia | 2 |
| TACA Perú | Lima | 1 |
| TAM Airlines | Aracaju, Belém-Val de Cães, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Boa Vista, Campinas-Viracopos, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, Goiânia, Imperatriz, João Pessoa, Macapá, Maceió, Manaus, Marabá, Miami, Natal, Palmas, Petrolina, Porto Alegre, Porto Velho, Recife, Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador da Bahia, São José do Rio Preto, São Luís, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Teresina, Vitória | 1 |
| TAM Airlines operated by Pantanal Linhas Aéreas | São Paulo-Congonhas | 1 |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon | 1 |
| TRIP Linhas Aéreas | Araguaína, Manaus, Uberaba, Uberlândia, Vitória | 1 |
| Webjet | Belo Horizonte-Confins, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Foz do Iguaçu, Porto Alegre, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador da Bahia, São Paulo-Guarulhos | 1 |
The airport is located 11 km (7 mi) from downtown Brasília.
On 31 August 2009, Infraero unveiled a BRL514.8 million (USD306.06 million; EUR224.76 million) investment plan[16] to up-grade Pres. Juscelino Kubitscheck International Airport focusing on the preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup which will be held in Brazil, Brasília being one of the venue cities:
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