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Congonhas International Airport
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| Congonhas International Airport Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo / Congonhas |
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| IATA: CGH - ICAO: SBSP | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Infraero | ||
| Serves | São Paulo | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,631 ft (802 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 17R/35L | 6,365 | 1,940 | Asphalt |
| 17L/35R (closed) | 4,708 | 1,435 | Asphalt |
Congonhas International Airport or Congonhas/São Paulo International Airport (IATA: CGH, ICAO: SBSP) is São Paulo's second airport, situated 8km from the city downtown at Avenida Washington Luís s/nº - Campo Belo. It is administered by Infraero, and as of 2005 was the busiest airport in Brazil with 17,500,000 passengers passing through it.
In 1957 the airport was the third busiest in the world for cargo and freight.
Its name came from a plant that was common in the area where the airport was built in 1919. It was the city's main airport until 1985, when Guarulhos International Airport was built because of congestion at Congonhas and because it could not handle transatlantic flights.
The airport continues to be important to the city for regional and short-distance domestic flights. Even with the construction of Guarulhos International Airport (35km away from the city's downtown), Congonhas airport continues to face the problem of congestion both for the number of passengers and the number of flights.
Its halls are considered one of the more outstanding examples of modern architecture in São Paulo.
Congonhas is the main hub of the largest airlines in Brazil: TAM Linhas Aéreas, Gol and VARIG.
- Number of Passengers: 17,147,628 (2005)
- Main Terminal: 51,535 m² [1]
- Main destinations: Belo Horizonte (flights every 15min), Brasília (flights every 30min), Rio de Janeiro (flights every 15 min)
- BRA Transportes Aéreos
- Gol Transportes Aéreos
- OceanAir
- Pantanal Linhas Aereas
- TAM Linhas Aéreas
- Aracaju
- Belém
- Belo Horizonte-Confins
- Belo Horizonte-Pampulha
- Brasília
- Campinas
- Campo Grande
- Cuiába
- Curitiba
- Goiania
- Florianopolis
- Fortaleza
- Foz do Iguaçu
- Ilheus
- João Pessoa
- Joinville
- Londrina
- Maceió
- Manaus
- Marabá
- Maringá
- Natal
- Navegantes
- Porto Alegre
- Porto Seguro
- Porto Velho
- Recife
- Ribeirão Preto
- São José do Rio Preto
- Rio de Janeiro-Galeão
- Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont
- Salvador
- São Luis
- Uberlândia
- Vitória
- TRIP Linhas Aereas
- Varig
- Official site
- World Aero Data airport information for SBSP
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