Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport

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The Rio de Janeiro - Antonio Carlos Jobim airport (also: Galeão ) ( IATA: GIG, ICAO code: SBGL ) is before the Aeroporto Santos Dumont 's main international commercial airport in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The powered Infraero airport is one of the most important and largest in the country and serves as a hub for TAM and GOL.

History

The history of the airport Galeão begins in 1924 with the laying of a flight school on the Ilha do Governador (Governor Island) in the Bay of Guanabara. In the environment, the first production of Brazilian aircraft of the type Muniz and the licensed production of aircraft Fokker brands and Focke- Wulf began. 1945 Galeão base of the Brazilian Air Force and international commercial airport. At this time the passengers were still picked up by barge on the water plane and transferred to buses. A terminal building was built in 1950.

In the 1970s, the airport is a major hub for international air travel in the country and was the end of the decade also target the Concorde. The former terminal building was converted into an office building for the air freight traffic with the opening of the current Terminal 1 on 20 January 1977. Terminal 1 was modernized in 1992 and currently has a capacity of seven million passengers a year. In early 1999 got the airport as an additional name to the Brazilian musician Antônio Carlos Jobim. That same year, Terminal 2 went with a capacity of eight million passengers in operation.

Infrastructure

Galeão Airport has two semi-circular flight terminals, each having twelve gates. There are two take-off and landing runways (10/ 28 to 4000 m, concrete, and 15/33 with 3180 meters, asphalt ) at a height of 9 m. The complex has an area of ​​17,881,696.63 square meters. The operator specifies the length of the runway 10/28 partly with 4240 m.

Airlines and destinations

The two largest airlines TAM and GOL are on site, both of which maintain a base in Rio and offer from here, in addition to numerous regional destinations such as Brasília and Belo Horizonte, and international connections, for example to Miami and Paris. With Frankfurt am Main Airport is currently connected by daily direct flights from TAM Linhas Aéreas and Lufthansa. Since the winter flight schedule 2011/2012 Condor operated this route, but not daily. Lufthansa serves the route, with the exception of the period from 2005 to end of October 2011, since 1956.