Brasília Airport

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Aeroporto Internacional de Brasília - Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek
Aeroporto do Brasilia logo.svg
Aerial view of Brasília Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code SBBR
IATA code BSB
Coordinates

15 ° 52 ′ 16 ″  S , 47 ° 55 ′ 7 ″  W Coordinates: 15 ° 52 ′ 16 ″  S , 47 ° 55 ′ 7 ″  W
Height above MSL 1060 m (3478  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 12 km south of Brasília
Street DF-002 / DF-025
Local transport bus
Basic data
opening May 3, 1957
operator Inframérica
Terminals 2
Passengers 17,855,163 (2018)
Air freight 54,081 t (2018)
Flight
movements 		153,796 (2018)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		21 million
Runways
11R / 29L 3300 m × 45 m asphalt
11L / 29R 3200 m × 45 m asphalt
website
https://www.bsb.aero



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The Brasília airport , official name Aeroporto Internacional de Brasília - Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek , is the international airport of the Brazilian capital Brasília . The airport, named after the former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek , houses over 130 shops and four theaters and is one of the most modern airports in the country. In the 2000s, the number of passenger handling increased to over seventeen million in 2017. This made it the third largest in Brazil this year in terms of passenger numbers after the two airports São Paulo-Guarulhos and São Paulo-Congonhas . It is the hub of LATAM Airlines Brasil .

history

Building history

Even before the city of Brasília was founded, there was an airport called Vera Cruz, which was commissioned in 1955 by the governor of Goiás Bernardo Sayão. At that time it consisted of only one sand runway, 2700 meters long. A year later, President Juscelino Kubitschek landed to get an idea of ​​the area that was earmarked for the capital city.

With the completion of the Catetinho , the official residence of the President, construction work began on the new airport in neighboring Lago Sul on November 6, 1956. On April 2, 1957, the President's plane landed on the completed runway. An official opening took place on May 3rd. In the same year, the facilities of the Brazilian Air Force , which work with the airport, opened.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the airport was given its present form with a central structure and two separate wings for departure and arrival. In the first construction phase, a bridge was inaugurated in 1992, which enables passengers to access the terminals. In a second section, the main wing was renovated in 1994 and nine passenger boarding bridges were added. A second runway was set up in 2006 as a result of the increasing number of passengers.

Traffic figures

Source: Aeroporto de Brasília
Traffic figures for Brasília International Airport 2003–2018
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons )
(with airmail)		 Flight movements
2018 17,855,163 54,081 153,796
2017 16,912,680 49,042 148,619
2016 17,947,153 36.093 161.167
2015 19,821,796 39,480 186.377
2014 18.146.405 40,795 183,874
2013 16,489,987 43,623 179,656
2012 15,891,530 - -
2011 15,398,737 - -
2010 14,347,061 - -
2009 12,213,825 - -
2008 10,443,393 - -
2007 11,119,872 - -
2006 9,699,911 - -
2005 9,426,569 - -
2004 9,926,786 - -
2003 6,840,843 - -

Airlines

Brasília Airport is served by the following companies:

Incidents

  • On May 25, 1982 a VASP Boeing 737-200 (PP-SMY) touched down with the nose landing gear first during landing at Brasília Airport in rainy weather. The nose landing gear broke, causing the machine to come off the runway and the fuselage to break apart. Of the 118 people on board, two passengers were killed.

See also

Web links

Commons : Brasília International Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The Airport - Data and Information. BSB.aero, accessed on June 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e The Airport - Statistics. BSB.aero, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Airport Guide - Airlines Companies. BSB.aero, accessed February 2, 2019 .
  4. ^ Accident report B-737-200 PP-SMY , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 23, 2019.