Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport
nativename = Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade


IATA = PLU
ICAO = SBBH
type = Public/Military
owner =
operator = Infraero
city-served = Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
location = Pampulha
elevation-f = 2,589
elevation-m = 789
coordinates = coord|19|51|04|S|043|57|02|W|type:airport|display=inline
website = [http://www.infraero.gov.br/usa/aero_prev_home.php?ai=204 www.infraero.gov.br]
metric-rwy = y
r1-number = 13/31
r1-length-m = 2,505
r1-length-f = 8,220
r1-surface = Asphalt
footnotes = Sources: Infraero, [http://www.infraero.gov.br/usa/aero_prev_home.php?ai=204 Belo Horizonte Airport] , official site] DAFIFWAD|SBBH|source=DAFIF] GCM|PLU|source=DAFIF]

Belo Horizonte Airport airport codes|PLU|SBBH, also known as Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, [pt icon [http://www.guiadeaerodromos.com.br/ Guia de Aeródromos Brasileiros] ] is an airport located in the Pampulha region, eight kilometers from the city center of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It has 186 daily scheduled flights connecting Belo Horizonte to the rest of the country and smaller cities in the state’s interior.

On November 16, 2004, Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has officially changed the airport's name to Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in homage to Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond de Andrade, born in Itabira, a city of the state of Minas Gerais.

In April 2005, the state's government has decided to move most of its traffic to Tancredo Neves International Airport (Confins), because Pampulha couldn't support the amount of traffic it was handling.

In 2007, the airport handled 759,824 passengers and 52,812 aircraft movements [ Infraero airport statistics for 2007 http://www.infraero.gov.br/upload/arquivos/movi/mov.operac.1207.pdf] .

Airlines and destinations

* TAM Airlines ("TAM Linhas Aéreas") (Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont)
* Total Linhas Aéreas (Altamira, Araguaína, Araxá, Belém, Brasília, Carajás, Diamantina, Governador Valadares, Ipatinga, Manaus, Montes Claros, Parintins, Patos de Minas, Porto Trombetas, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Santarém, Tucuruí, Uberaba, Uberlândia, Vitória)
* Webjet Linhas Aéreas (Rio de Janeiro-Galeão)

ee also

* List of the busiest airports in Brazil

References

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