Brasília International Airport

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Brasília–Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport
Aeroporto Internacional de Brasília–Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek
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IATA: BSB – ICAO: SBBR
Summary
Airport type Public/Military
Operator Inframérica
Serves Brasília
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 1,066 m / 3,497 ft
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Website www.bsb.aero
Map
Location in Brasília
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11R/29L 3,300 10,827 Asphalt
11L/29R 3,200 10,499 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 19,821,796
Aircraft Operations 186,377
Metric tonnes of cargo 39,467
Statistics: Aeroporto de Brasília[1]
Sources: Airport Website,[2] ANAC[3]

Brasília–Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport (IATA: BSB, ICAO: SBBR) is the airport serving Brasília, Brazil. Since 22 April 1999 the airport is named after Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (1902–1976), the 21st President of Brazil.[4] It is located in the Lago Sul administrative region of the Federal District of Brazil.

Brasília Airport is the second busiest of Brazil.[citation needed]

Some of its facilities are shared with the Brazilian Air Force.

History

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Airport diagram

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 2 October 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 metres (8,900 ft) and a passenger terminal in a makeshift, cob-wall shack covered with buriti-leaves.[5]

This facility, however, was only temporary. The relocation to a definitive site had already been identified as a priority and construction works started on 6 November 1956. The works lasted for only over six months and required the clearing of an area of 1,334 million square metres (14,360×10^6 sq ft), 178,500 square metres (1,921,000 sq ft) of earthwork, base-stabilized 40,900 square metres (440,000 sq ft), covering 73,500 square metres (791,000 sq ft), topographical services, positioning and leveling. The runway was designed to have a length of 3,300 metres (10,800 ft) but initially it had only 324 metres (1,063 ft), and was 45 metres (148 ft) wide. The passenger terminal was built of wood. On 2 April 1957, the presidential aircraft landed for the first time at the site and the official inauguration took place on 3 May 1957. That year, on the same location the Brasília Air Force Base was also commissioned.[5]

In 1965 Oscar Niemeyer proposed a project for 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.[6] This building was opened in 1971 and since 1990 it has been 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.[5] In April 2014 the South Concourse, which serves domestic flights, was opened.

Until April 2014 the terminal was capable of handling 9 million passengers per year, but actually handled around 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 2 August 2010.[7]

Following a decision made on 26 April 2011 by the Federal Government for private companies being granted concessions to explore some Infraero airports,[8] on 6 February 2012, the administration of the airport was conceded, for 25 years, to the Consortium Inframérica, formed by the Brazilian Engineering Group Engevix (50%) and the Argentinean Group Corporación América (50%).[9] Inframérica also won the concession of Gov. Aluízio Alves International Airport in Natal.[10] Infraero, the state-run organization remains with 49% of the shares of the company incorporated for the administration.[11][12]

The Brazilian Integrated Air Traffic Control and Air Defense Center section 1 (Cindacta I) is located in the vicinity of the airport.[13]

On 31 August 2009, Infraero unveiled a BRL514.8 million (USD306.06 million; EUR224.76 million) investment plan[14] to renovate Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport, focusing on the preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Brasília being one of the venue cities, and the Summer Olympics in 2016 which are held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:

  • Enlargement of apron and taxiways (BRL 34.5 million). Completed in April 2013
  • Renovation of the existing passenger terminal (BRL 22.5 million). Completed in November 2015
  • Enlargement of the passenger terminal. (BRL 439 million) Completed in April 2015
  • Parking (BRL 18 million) Completed in April 2014

Between 2012 to 2014, the consortium INFRAMERICA invested R$1.2 billion [15] to remodeling the terminal, increasing from 13 to 29 fingers, 40 to 70 airplane positions.

Future developments

For 2016-19 are planned investments with international area, new parking build, four new hotels, business area and other facilities.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations Terminal
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 1
American Airlines Miami 1
Avianca Brazil Aracaju, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Chapecó, Cuiabá, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Ilhéus, João Pessoa, Juazeiro do Norte, Natal, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador da Bahia, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos 1
Azul Brazilian Airlines Araguaína, Barreiras, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Campinas, Foz do Iguaçu, Manaus, Recife, Salvador da Bahia, Sao-Paulo Guarulhos, Uberaba, Uberlândia, Vitória 2
Copa Airlines Panama City 1
Gol Transportes Aéreos Aracaju, Belém, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Boa Vista, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campinas, Campo Grande, Cruzeiro do Sul, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Goiânia, João Pessoa, Juazeiro do Norte, Macapá, Maceió, Manaus, Marabá, Natal, Palmas, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Porto Velho, Punta Cana, Recife, Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador da Bahia, São Luís, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos, São José do Rio Preto, Teresina, Uberlândia, Vitória
Seasonal: Santiago
Charter: Aruba, Curaçao		 1
LATAM Brasil Altamira, Aracaju, Belém, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Bauru-Arealva, Boa Vista, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campinas, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, Goiânia, Ilhéus, Imperatriz, João Pessoa, Juazeiro do Norte, Macapá, Maceió, Manaus, Marabá, Miami (ends 31 August 2016),[16] Natal, Navegantes, Orlando–MCO (ends 3 June 2016),[17] Palmas, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Porto Velho, Punta Cana, Recife, Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Santarém, Salvador da Bahia, São José dos Campos, São José do Rio Preto, São Luís, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Teresina, Uberlândia, Vitória 1
Passaredo Linhas Aéreas Araguaína, Barreiras, Cuiabá, Ribeirão Preto, Sinop 1
TAP Portugal Lisbon 1

Cargo

Airlines Destinations
ABSA Cargo Airline Manaus, São Paulo-Guarulhos
Rio Linhas Aéreas Cuiabá, São Paulo-Guarulhos
TAM Cargo Manaus, São Paulo-Guarulhos

Accidents and incidents

Accidents with fatalities

  • 22 December 1962: a Varig Convair CV-240-2 registration PP-VCQ flying from Belo Horizonte-Pampulha to Brasília descended below the prescribed altitude while on final approach to Brasília, struck trees, skidded and fell to one side. One crew member died.[18]
  • 25 May 1982: a VASP Boeing 737-2A1 registration PP-SMY on landing procedures at Brasília during rain, made a hard landing with nose gear first. The gear collapsed and the aircraft skidded off the runway breaking in two. Two passengers out of 118 occupants died.[19]
  • 29 September 2006: Gol Airlines flight 1907, a Boeing 737-8EH registration PR-GTD en route from Manaus to Brasília collided with a business jet Embraer Legacy 600 on its first leg, fell, disintegrated in midair, and crashed into the Amazon forest in the north of the State of Mato Grosso, killing all of the 154 passengers and crew on board of the Gol aircraft.[20]

Incidents

Access

The airport is located 11 km (7 mi) from downtown Brasília.

Gallery

South Concourse, which opened in April 2014, is used for domestic flights.
Neon lights in the evening inside South Concourse.

See also

References

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External links

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