Sao Paulo-Guarulhos Airport

Aeroporto Internacional de ; São Paulo / Guarulhos ; Governador André Franco Montoro
Characteristics
ICAO code	SBGR
IATA code	GRU
Coordinates	23 ° 25 '55 " S , 46 ° 28' 10" W Coordinates: 23 ° 25 '55 " S , 46 ° 28' 10" W
Height above MSL	750 m (2461 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	25 km northeast of São Paulo
Street	BR-116 BR-610
Local transport	Bus ; S-Bahn : ; CPTM Linha 13
Basic data
opening	20th January 1985
operator	Concessionária do Aeroporto Internacional de Guarulhos SA
surface	1377.41 ha
Terminals	3
Passengers	43.002.119 (2019)
Air freight	339,828 t (2014)
Flight ; movements	292,047 (2019)
Runways
09R / 27L	3000 m × 45 m asphalt
09L / 27R	3700 m × 45 m asphalt

The São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport ( IATA : GRU , ICAO : SBGR ), also known as Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo / Guarulhos or Aeroporto de Cumbica , is a Brazilian airport in Cumbica, a suburb of Guarulhos , and thus is in the metropolitan region of São Paulo . It is the largest airport in the country , ahead of Congonhas Airport , which is also located in the São Paulo metropolitan area . It is also the home airport and hub of LATAM Airlines Brasil .

The airport has an area of 1377 hectares , of which more than 500 hectares are urban.

history

São Paulo-Guarulhos Airport opened on January 20, 1985. In 1989, the 3700-meter-long, second runway 09L / 27R was put into operation, followed four years later by Terminal 2.

Terminal 4, which has since been renamed Terminal 1, was inaugurated in 2012. On February 6, 2012, a consortium made up of the Brazilian infrastructure company Invepar and the South African airport operator Airports Company South Africa was awarded a concession to operate the airport. On June 14, 2012, a 20-year contract was signed. The consortium received a 51 percent share in the operator Concessionária do Aeroporto Internacional de Guarulhos SA, while the remaining 49 percent remained with the state airport operator Infraero .

On November 15, 2013, GRU Airport - Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo was introduced as the new name for the airport. On May 11, 2014, after 18 months of construction, the new Terminal 3 went into operation.

Airport facilities

In the airport infrastructure of Guarulhos there are two parallel runways for take-offs and landings, one three kilometers in length, the other 3.7 km. There is still the prospect of building an auxiliary runway of 2.075 km. The Terminal 1 - TPS 1 has about 7.5 ha, while the terminal 2 - TPS 2 ca. has 8 ha. Both terminals operate 24 hours a day. GRU received a new terminal one month before the start of the 2014 World Cup . Construction started in 2012 and opened on May 11, 2014. The new airport area was not yet fully occupied and should be ready for the onrush of travelers to the World Cup. The construction work on Terminal 3 by the contractual partner GRU Airport lasted one year and nine months after the contracts were signed. In October 2014, further construction projects began, the modernization of Terminals 1 and 2. This is expected to take 18 months and a submission deadline in the first half of 2016. The airport is already one of the most used in Latin America .

Terminals, airlines and destinations

Airport layout

Airline	target	terminal
Aerolíneas Argentinas	Buenos Aires , Mendoza , San Carlos de Bariloche , Trelew	1B
Aeroméxico	Cancun , Mexico airport -City	1B
Air Algérie	Algiers	2D
Air Canada	Toronto-Pearson	3E
Air China	Peking-Capital , Madrid-Barajas	3E
Air Europa	Madrid-Barajas	2D
Air France	Paris	3G
Alitalia	Milan, Rome	3G
American Airlines	Dallas / Fort Worth , Miami , Los Angeles , New York-JFK	3G
Arik Air	Lagos
Asiana	Seoul Incheon
Austral Líneas Aéreas	Buenos Aires
Avianca	Bogotá	1A
Azul	Araçatuba, Araxá, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Cuiabá, Curitiba , Ipatinga, Juiz de Fora, Londrina, Manaus , Natal, Porto Velho, Recife, Rio de Janeiro (Santos Dumont), Rondonópolis, Salvador, Uberaba, Uberlândia	4th
Boliviana de Aviación	Santa Cruz de la Sierra , La Paz , Cochabamba	2C
British Airways	London Heathrow	3G
Copa Airlines	Panama City	1B
Cubana de Aviación	Havana	2C
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York-JFK	2C
El Al	Tel Aviv	3H
Emirates	Dubai	3G
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi	3F
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa	2C
Gol Linhas Aéreas	Aracaju , Aruba, Asunción, Belém-Val de Cães, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Bogotá , Bridgetown-Barbados, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campina Grande, Campo Grande, Cancun, Caracas, Caxias do Sul, Córdoba, Cuiabá, Curaçao, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Fernando de Noronha , Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Foz de Iguaçu, Goiânia, Ilheus, João Pessoa, Las Vegas, Lima, Londrina, Los Angeles, Macapa, Maceió, Manaus, Maringa, Montevideo, New York (JFK), Natal, Navegantes, Orlando, Petrolina, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Porto Velho, Punta Cana, Punta del Leste, Recife, Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro-Galeao , Rosário, Santarem, Salvador da Bahia, San Juan, São Luís , Santa Cruz de la Sierra-Viru Viru, Santiago de Chile , Santo Domingo, Sint Maarten , Teresina, Uberlandia, Vitória	1A
Iberia	Barcelona , Madrid	3F
KLM	Amsterdam	3G
Korean Air	Los Angeles, Seoul-Incheon	3G
LAN Argentina	Buenos Aires	3E
LAN Chile	Santiago de Chile	3E
LAN Colombia	Bogota	3E
LAN Express	Santiago de Chile	3E
LAN Perú	Lima, San Francisco	3E
Lufthansa	Frankfurt am Main	3F
Passaredo	Araguaia, Barreiras, Bauru, Brasilia, Cuiabá, Franca, Goiânia, Marilia, Palmas, Presidente Prudente, Ribeirão Preto, Rondonopolis, São José do Rio Preto, Vitoria da Conquista, Salvador da Bahia, Uberlândia	4th
Philippine Airlines	Manila	1B
Pop Brasil Linhas Aéreas	Belo Horizonte, Natal, Porto Seguro	1A
Qatar Airways	Doha	3E
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca	2D
Singapore Airlines	Barcelona, Singapore	3G
South African Airways	Johannesburg , Cape Town	3F
Sky Airline	Santiago de Chile	1B
Swiss International Air Lines	Zurich	3
TAAG Angola Airlines	Luanda	2C
TACA Peru	Lima	2C
TAM Linhas Aéreas	Aracaju, Belém-Val de Cães, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Campo Grande, Cuiaba, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Foz de Iguaçu, Goiânia, Ihéus, João Pessoa, Londrina, Maceió, Manaus, Natal, Navegantes Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Recife, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Branco Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador da Bahia, São Jose do Rio Preto, São Luís, Vitória	2D
TAM Linhas Aéreas	Asunción, Barcelona, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Buenos Aires-Aeroparque, Cancun, Caracas Ciudad del Este, Cordoba, Frankfurt-Am-Main, Lima, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Miami, Milan-Malpensa, Mexico City, Montevideo, Munich (from June 25, 2019), New York-JFK, Orlando, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Punta del Este, Rosario, Santiago de Chile, Toronto-Pearson	3E
TAM Pantanal	Belo Horizonte, Cuiaba, Curitiba, Fortaleza, João Pessoa, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, São José do Rio Preto, Teresina
TAME	Guayaquil, Quito	2C
TAP Portugal	Lisbon , Porto	3F
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul	3E
United Airlines	Chicago-O'Hare, Houston, Newark, Washington-Dulles	3F
WhiteJets	Belo Horizonte, Campinas, Cancun, Florianopolis, Maceió, Natal, Porto Seguro, Punta Cana, Orlando, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Varadero	1A

Traffic figures

Source: Infraero , GRU Airport

**Traffic figures from the Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo 2006–2019**
year	Passenger volume			Air freight ( tons ) (with airmail )	Aircraft movements (with military)
year	National	International	total	Air freight ( tons ) (with airmail )	Aircraft movements (with military)
2019	28,238,490	14,763,629	43.002.119	-	292,047
2018	25.375.118	13,577,308	38,952,804	-	292,818
2017	23,747,000	13,997,000	37,744,000	-	263,326
2016	23,101,826	13,494,500	36,596,326	-	267,746
2015	25,365,000	13,620,000	38,985,000	-	295.030
2014	25,956,000	13,581,000	39,537,000	339,828	304,586
2013	23,438,000	12,524,000	35,962,000	343,785	284.184
2012	21,234,352	11,542,978	32,777,330	470.453	273,884
2011	18,647,834	11,355,594	30.003.428	511.484	270,600
2010	16,468,645	10,380,540	26,849,185	430,850	250,493
2009	-	-	21,727,649	382.723	209,636
2008	-	-	20,400,304	475.209	194.184
2007	-	-	18,795,596	488.485	187.960
2006	-	-	15,759,181	495,879	154,948

gallery

Terminal 1 (TPS1) outside
TPS1 inside - main hall

Terminal 2 (TPS2) outside
TPS2 inside - main hall
The tower

Web links

Commons : São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official airport website (English, Portuguese, Spanish)
Information page about the airport
Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Terminals. GRU.com.br, accessed October 25, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Operational Information. GRU.com.br, accessed April 4, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Estatísticas. Infraero.gov.br , accessed August 17, 2019 (Portuguese).
^ History. GRU.com.br, accessed June 17, 2018 .
↑ Histórico. GRU.com.br, accessed June 17, 2018 (Portuguese).
^ Shareholder Composition. GRU.com.br, accessed June 17, 2018 .
↑ Airlines. GRU.com.br, accessed June 17, 2018 .

[terminals-1] Terminals. GRU.com.br, accessed October 25, 2018 .

[information-2] Operational Information. GRU.com.br, accessed April 4, 2020 .

[estatisticas-3] Estatísticas. Infraero.gov.br , accessed August 17, 2019 (Portuguese).

[history-4] History. GRU.com.br, accessed June 17, 2018 .

[historico-5] Histórico. GRU.com.br, accessed June 17, 2018 (Portuguese).

[shareholders-6] Shareholder Composition. GRU.com.br, accessed June 17, 2018 .

[airlines-7] Airlines. GRU.com.br, accessed June 17, 2018 .