Bogotá airport

Aeropuerto Internacional El Dorado Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento
Characteristics
ICAO code	SKBO
IATA code	BOG
Coordinates	4 ° 42 '6 "  N , 74 ° 8' 49"  W Coordinates: 4 ° 42 '6 "  N , 74 ° 8' 49"  W.
Height above MSL	2549 m (8363  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	15 km northwest of Bogotá
Street	Avenida El Dorado (Calle 26)
Basic data
opening	1959
operator	Operadora Aeropuerto Internacional - Opain SA
surface	690 ha
Terminals	2
Passengers	30,989,932 (2017)
Air freight	1,022,766 t (2017)
Flight movements	322,129 (2017)
Capacity ( PAX per year)	40 million passengers
Runways
13L / 31R	3800 m × 45 m asphalt
13R / 31L	3800 m × 45 m asphalt

The El Dorado Airport ( Spanish Aeropuerto Internacional El Dorado Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento , IATA code : BOG ; ICAO code : S KBo ) is an international commercial airport and the largest and most important in Colombia . Skytrax named El Dorado the best airport in South America in 2018. He is at 2549  m above sea level. NHN in the north-west of the capital Bogota in the Andes - Plateau .

status

Former President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla had the airport planned and built during his reign from 1953 to 1957, and it was opened in 1959. In 1981 a second terminal was opened under the name Puente Aéreo . In 1998, a second runway was opened . Since then, the residents of the nearby district of Fontibón have been particularly affected by aircraft noise. Today El Dorado is the third largest airport in Latin America with over 30 million passengers annually , behind the airports of São Paulo and Mexico City . The Colombian Anti-Drug Police ( Dirección de Antinarcóticos ) is conspicuously present and monitors every corner of the airport.

Conversion and expansion of El Dorado I

Since the airport was no longer able to cope with the massive volume of passengers, the first renovation and expansion work on El Dorado began in 2007, operated by the airport operator Opain SA, which will take place in four phases until mid-2017. The previous 27 parking positions will then increase significantly to a total of 90 and the northern runway will also be extended by 800 meters. A third runway has been under discussion since 2017.

Inside the airport building, the airport's public areas were completely renovated with investments totaling one billion US dollars by July 2014. A new arrival hall is already in operation, a new fire station , a new office building and a new cargo center with 21 aircraft positions have been built. The space of the old cargo area was needed for the new international terminal. Once it is completed by mid-2017, Bogota-El Dorado will become the most modern and largest airport in all of Latin America. Thanks to the expansion and modernization, the operator Opain SA will be able to handle 22 million passengers per year in the future.

In December 2015 the new control tower ( Torre Muisca ) was opened, which controls 90 take-offs and landings per hour. Until then, only 58 operations could be performed per hour. The air traffic controllers will then not only control the entire Colombian airspace, but also help to avoid flight delays.

The most important user at the airport - with 61 percent of the traffic volume - is the Colombian airline Avianca, which has completed its merger with the Central American TACA and joined the Star Alliance as Avianca-Taca at the end of June 2010 .

El Dorado II project

Downpour over El Dorado

It was already clear in 2011 that the expansion of the airport would be too small in view of the expected growth in tourism. In order to permanently solve the problem, a second airport with three runways south of the northwest approach lane of El Dorado I for 7.5 million passengers per year will be built by 2023, for the time being as New Bogota (El Dorado II) Airport or El Dorado II International Airport . A feasibility study is available for this.

The expansion of an area previously used for agriculture will be implemented in two phases. In phase I, 799 ha will initially be built on from mid-2018 , in phase II until completion from 2022 to 2023 a total of 1,980 ha will then be built on. The total cost will be over $ 1.06 billion. The executing companies are the British Mott MacDonald (51%), the Spanish Aertec Solutions (24%) and the Colombian C&M Consultores (25%). A master plan is already in place.

Construction work began in early 2018 and the first take-off and landing runway is expected to go into operation in 2022. El Dorado II is being built between the suburbs of Facatativá and Madrid , almost 40 km from Bogotá city center. First and foremost, low-cost airlines such as Viva Air Colombia , Satena , EasyFly and Searca (charter) should operate from there with national and international flights. The transport connection with El Dorado I and the center of Bogotá will then be established with the future local transport S-Bahn Bogotá , which will make it easier for passengers to change trains.

Airlines and Destinations

The airport serves Avianca , Copa Airlines Colombia (formerly AeroRepública ), EasyFly , LATAM Airlines Colombia , Satena and Viva Air Colombia as an aviation hub from where they fly to national and international destinations.

In Europe, destinations in six countries are served: Daily Madrid-Barajas ( Iberia together with Avianca), Barcelona-El Prat (Avianca), Paris-Charles de Gaulle ( Air France ), Frankfurt am Main ( Lufthansa ), London Heathrow and five times a week Munich (Avianca). Amsterdam Schiphol ( KLM ) and Istanbul-Ataturk ( Turkish Airlines ) are served five times a week .

In addition, Avianca offers direct flights several times a week from Madrid to Cali (six times a week) and Medellín (three times a week).

Infrastructure

The airport has two runways at a height of 2546 meters and three check-in halls for passengers. One for domestic flights, one for international air traffic and one for Avianca only ( Terminal Puente Aéreo with 14 piers). The airport operator Opain SA is a consortium consisting of Colombian companies and Flughafen Zürich AG . El Dorado was the first ever Latin American airport for air freight . Avianca dominates the business at Bogotá Airport, which has the largest cargo turnover among Latin America's airports, primarily through flowers for the USA and Europe, with over 600,000 tons per year. The airport is subject to airspace class A .

Incidents

• On April 19, 1960, a Curtiss C-46D of Lloyd Aéreo Colombiano ( aircraft registration HK-390 ) crashed on its final approach to Bogotá airport. The machine was on the flight from Medellin-Olaya Herrera . The cause was a loss of speed with the following stall . Of the 51 occupants, 37 were killed, 6 crew members and 31 passengers.

• On December 18, 1966, a Lockheed L-1649 Starliner from Aerocondor Colombia (N7301C) hit the runway from Miami to Bogotá 10 to 20 m from the runway. At the time of the accident, there were clouds of fog over parts of the airport. The captain of the aircraft leased from the USA did not have a valid certificate of fitness to fly . Of the 59 people on board, 17 died.

• On August 27, 1973, a Lockheed L-188A Electra of Aerocondor Colombia (HK-777) was flown into a mountain about 12 kilometers southeast of the destination airport Bogota-El Dorado (CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain ). All 42 inmates were killed.

• On February 22, 1975, a Canadair CL-44 / CC-106 Yukon of Aerocondor Colombia (HK-1972) hit a tree 10 kilometers from the departure airport in Bogota-El Dorado and fell 1200 meters further into a mountain. All five crew members of the cargo plane were killed.

• On 10 July 1975, a cargo aircraft of the type turned Lockheed L-188AF Electra of Aerocondor Colombia (HK 1976) fell shortly after takeoff from the airport Bogota El Dorado suddenly to the right, back and crashed into a Douglas DC-6 of Aero Costa ( HK-756) . Both planes caught fire and were destroyed. Two of the four crew members on board the Electra were killed.

• On November 27, 1989, a Boeing 727-21 of the Avianca (HK-1803) crashed on the way from El Dorado Airport to Cali about 16 kilometers southwest of the starting airport after a bomb explosion. All 107 inmates were killed in the attack on behalf of the drug lord Pablo Escobar . In addition, three other people were killed on the ground by debris (see also Avianca flight 203 ) .

• On December 11, 1991, a Curtiss C-46 of the Líneas Aéreas Suramericanas (HK-2716) was flown into a hill during the approach to Bogotá-Eldorado airport (CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain ). The machine came on a positioning flight from Medellin-Rionegro Airport . All 8 occupants (4 crew members and 4 passengers each) were killed.

• On April 20, 1998, a Boeing 727-230 of TAME Ecuador (HC-BSU) , which was used on an Air France flight , was flown into Cerro el Cable after take-off from El Dorado airport, a mountain close to that of tourists popular Monserrate (CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain ). Instead of turning right 3.6 km after the end of the runway, the pilots flew straight ahead 10 km into the eastern Andes until the impact . All 53 occupants were killed (see also Air France flight 422 ) .

Web links

Commons : El Dorado International Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• El Dorado Airport website (Spanish, English)
• Civil Aeronautic Administrative Special Unit - AEROCIVIL (Spanish)
• Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Estadísticas de las Actividades Aeronáuticas - Estadisticas Trafico de Aeropuertos Diciembre 2017.xls . aerocivil.gov.co. Accessed November 3, 2018 (Spanish)
2. ^ Name change by decree , accessed on April 11, 2015
3. ↑ Best Airports in South America worldairportawards.com, accessed May 30, 2018 (English)
4. ↑ Website Opain SA , accessed on April 11, 2015 (Spanish)
5. ↑ El Dorado, moderno, pero insuficiente semana.com. Retrieved April 19, 2018 (Spanish)
6. ↑ Swiss help Colombia with the quantum leap . nzz.ch. Accessed April 11, 2015
7. ↑ Illustrative video of the future El Dorado II . elespectador.com. Accessed April 11, 20915 (Spanish)
8. ↑ New control tower . eltiempo.com. Retrieved December 18, 2015 (Spanish)
9. ↑ Control tower construction (official video) vimeo.com. Retrieved December 18, 2015 (Spanish)
10. ^ Latin America's Avianca-TACA and Copa Airlines to Join Star Alliance . airlinesandfdestinations.com. Accessed on January 28, 2017 (English)
11. ↑ New airport already too small . aerotelegraph.com. Accessed April 11, 2015
12. ↑ NUEVO AEROPUERTO EL DORADO II BOGOTÁ -COLOMBIA icao.int, accessed on May 7, 2019 (Spanish)
13. ↑ New Bogota (El Dorado II) Airport centreforaviation.com, accessed on January 8, 2019 English)
14. ↑ Bogotá contará con un segundo aeropuerto semana.com, from October 9, 2017 (Spanish)
15. ↑ PLAN MAESTRO DEL AEROPUERTO EL DORADO icao.int, accessed on April 16, 2018 (Spanish)
16. ↑ Plan Maestro Nuevo Aeropuerto El Dorado II Illustrative video about El Dorado II, accessed on April 16, 2018
17. ^ Este será el plan para construir el aeropuerto El Dorado II . eltiempo.com. From March 14, 2016 (Spanish)
18. ↑ Entre Madrid y Facatativá quedaría aeropuerto El Dorado II . caracol.com.co. Accessed April 11, 2015 (Spanish)
19. ↑ Se construirá un segundo aeropuerto para Bogotá , semana.com, accessed on December 6, 2015 (Spanish)
20. ↑ Colombia: Avianca increases flight frequencies to Madrid latina-press.com, accessed on January 8, 2019
21. ↑ Cheap business class flights to Colombia with Air France insideflyer.de, accessed on January 8, 2019
22. ↑ Germany's Lufthansa to increase seat capacity on Colombia route thecitypaperbogota.com, accessed on January 8, 2019 (English)
23. ↑ Colombia offers Dreamliner service to Blighty and beyond thecitypaperbogota.com, accessed on January 8, 2019 (English)
24. ↑ Avianca is now flying from Bogotá to Munich flight-news.com, from November 17, 2018
25. ↑ Cartagena new destination in Colombia world-of-flights.de, accessed on January 8, 2018
26. ^ Turkish Airlines Launches a New Route to Bogota and Panama , turkishairlines.com, accessed on March 17, 2016
27. ↑ Airfreight fortunes flying high in Latin America tiaca.org, accessed on April 11, 2019 (English)
28. ↑ Avianca's air cargo division is growing dvz.de. Accessed April 11, 2019
29. ↑ Accident Report C-46 HK-390 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 12, 2019.
30. ^ Accident report L-1649 Starliner N7301C , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 23, 2016.
31. ^ Accident report L-188A HK-777 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 3, 2019.
32. ^ Accident report CL-44 HK-1972 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 13, 2019.
33. ↑ accident report L-188AF HK-1976 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 13 of 2019.
34. ^ Accident report DC-6 HK-756 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 13, 2019.
35. ^ Accident report B-727-100 HK-1803 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 3, 2019.
36. ↑ Accident Report C-46 HK-2716 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 11, 2019.
37. ^ Accident report B-727-230 HC-BSU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 5, 2019.