Desierto de Atacama Airport
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The Desierto de Atacama Airport, and Airport Copiapo, in Spanish Aeropuerto Desierto de Atacama, resulting in German means something like airport Atacama Desert, (IATA: CPO, ICAO: SCAT ) is a regionally very significant commercial airport in the Región de Atacama in Chile. It is located about 50 kilometers northwest of Copiapó at the Pan-American Highway and near the town of Caldera. It is within a radius of more than 120 kilometers of the only commercial airport. The airport is used exclusively civil and currently manufactures from only domestic flights.
The Aeropuerto Desierto de Atacama was inaugurated in January 2005, replacing the outdated and too small airfield Chamonate. The terminal of the airport is relatively remote from modern architecture and consists of a curved structure made of wood, metal and steel. They therefore allows plenty of daylight into the rather small building, which is 3100 square meters. The building is built without jetways, so you have to climb the aircraft stairs. Otherwise, the airport, which is rather sparsely equipped with a control tower has. More aeronautical building as Hangers are not needed at the airport and were therefore not built.
The only start and the airport runway has a length of about 2200 meters, so it is designed and tailored to aircraft such as the Airbus A319 and A320 or Boeing 737. She is also provided with a instrument runway system. Front of the terminal, a car park was built with 170 parking spaces.
LAN Airlines, Chile's flag carrier is the largest airline site, the (2011 ) is responsible for well over 60 percent of the passengers and serves the objectives La Serena and Santiago de Chile directly. The Chilean Sky Airline low cost airline, which pays for more than 25 percent of the passengers, serving a few domestic destinations. The remaining ten percent also fly with the Chilean Princepal Airlines, which flies only to Santiago de Chile. This flight line area represents almost 75 percent of aircraft movements, the remaining good 25 percent is allocated to general aviation. The busiest by far distance from the airport is the route to the capital Santiago de Chile, which is served by all active at the airport scheduled airlines.