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São Paulo/Guarulhos – Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport
Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo/Guarulhos – Governador André Franco Montoro
IATA: GRU – ICAO: SBGR Summary Airport type Public/Military Operator Infraero Serves São Paulo Location Guarulhos, Brazil Hub for Gol Airlines
TAM AirlinesElevation AMSL 750 m / 2,459 ft Coordinates 23°25′55″S 046°28′10″W / 23.43194°S 46.46944°WCoordinates: 23°25′55″S 046°28′10″W / 23.43194°S 46.46944°W Website Map Location in Brazil
GRURunways Direction Length Surface m ft 09R/27L 3,000 9,843 Asphalt 09L/27R 3,700 12,139 Asphalt Statistics (2010) Passengers 26,849,185 Aircraft operations 250,493 Metric tonnes of cargo 357,847 Statistics: Infraero [1]
Sources: Airport Website[2]São Paulo/Guarulhos – Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport (IATA: GRU, ICAO: SBGR), formerly called Cumbica Airport after the district where it is located and the Air Force Base that still exists at the airport complex, is the main airport serving São Paulo, Brazil. It is located in the adjoining municipality of Guarulhos in Greater São Paulo. Since November 28, 2001 the airport is named after André Franco Montoro (1916-1999), former Governor of São Paulo.[3]
In 2010, the airport was ranked 1st in terms of transported passengers, aircraft operations, and cargo handled in Brazil, placing it amongst the busiest airports in the country. However, Guarulhos was also rated third place in most flight delays among major world airports by Forbes magazine in January 2008,[4] and in 2011, according to the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil, 25% of the flights left with delays greater than 15 minutes.[5] Guarulhos has slot restrictions operating with a maximum of 45 operations/hour, being one of the three airports with such restrictions in Brazil.[6]
It is operated by Infraero and some of its facilities are shared with the São Paulo Air Force Base of the Brazilian Air Force.
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History
On June 6, 1967, in response the growth of the air traffic in Brazil, the Brazilian military government initiated studies concerning the renovation of the airport infrastructure in Brazil. As part of the conclusions of these studies, because of their location, strategic importance, and security issues, new passenger facilities would be constructed in the areas of Galeão Air Force Base in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo Air Force Base in São Paulo.
In relation to São Paulo, the initial planning of the airport involved 3 runways and 4 passenger terminals. However, the first phase of the construction comprising two runways and two terminals started only on August 11, 1980. The airport was officially inaugurated on January 20, 1985. Quickly Guarulhos became the city's primary airport supplanting São Paulo-Congonhas Airport.
In 1989 the runways were extended and the terminals renovated, enlarged, and had their capacity increased from 7.5 million to 8.25 million passengers/year. The whole complex has 3,425 acres (14 km²), of which 5 km² is urbanized area.
Since 2001 the construction of terminal 3, capable of handling 12 million passengers/year has been planned but due to a myriad of political and economic problems, only in 2011 the actual construction will begin.
In 2010, the airport served more than 26.8 million passengers, an increase of 24% over 2009 and passenger volumes were 31% in excess of its capacity rated at 20.5 million per year at its present configuration.[1] In order to relieve overcrowding at Terminals 1 and 2 Infraero announced on May 17, 2011 that the former cargo terminals of defunct airlines VASP and Transbrasil and presently used by Federal Agencies will be renovated and adapted for use as domestic passenger terminals with remote-only positions. This interim terminal arrangement is expected to be operational by December 2011 and is intended to remain in service until planned Terminal 3 is operational.[7]
On April 26, 2011 it was confirmed that in order to accelerate much needed renovation and upgrade works, private companies will be offered partial ownership of some Infraero airports, including Guarulhos.[8] The plan was confirmed on May 31, 2011 and it was added that Infraero will retain 49% of each privatized airport and that negotiations are expected to be concluded in the first half of 2012.[9]
The Tropic of Capricorn passes directly through the southern tip of the airport.[10]
Statistics
Year 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 Passengers 26,849,185 21,727,649 20,997,813 19,560,963 16,580,842 16,855,026 12,940,193 12,552,268 12,808,437 13,098,609 Cargo (TM) 357,847 394,852 489,650 424,157 495,879 497,072 435,594 418,927 390,085 352,000 Terminals, airlines and destinations
Passenger
Airlines Destinations Terminal/
WingAerolíneas Argentinas Buenos Aires-Aeroparque, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza 1A Aeroméxico Mexico City 1A Aerosur Santa Cruz de la Sierra-Viru Viru 2D Air Canada Toronto-Pearson 2D Air China Beijing-Capital, Madrid 2D Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 1A Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino 1A American Airlines Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, New York-JFK 2D Avianca Bogotá 1A Avianca Brazil Belo Horizonte-Confins, Bogotá, Brasília, Campo Grande, Chapecó, Cuiabá, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Florianópolis, Juazeiro do Norte, Natal, Passo Fundo, Petrolina, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador da Bahia 1B Boliviana de Aviación Cochabamba, Santa Cruz de la Sierra-Viru Viru 2D British Airways London-Heathrow 1A Continental Airlines Houston-Intercontinental, Newark 2D Copa Airlines Panama City 2D Delta Air Lines Atlanta, Detroit, New York-JFK 1A Emirates Dubai 2D Gol Airlines Aracaju, Asunción, Belém-Val de Cães, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Buenos Aires-Aeroparque, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campo Grande, Caxias do Sul, Cuiabá, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Foz de Iguaçu, Goiânia, Ilhéus, João Pessoa, Macapá, Maceió, Manaus, Maringá, Montevideo, Natal, Navegantes, Petrolina, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Porto Velho, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador da Bahia, Santa Cruz de la Sierra-Viru Viru, Santiago de Chile, São Luís, Teresina, Vitória 2C Gol Airlines operated by Varig Aruba, Barbados, Caracas, Punta Cana, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão 2C Iberia Barcelona, Madrid 1A KLM Amsterdam 1A Korean Air Los Angeles, Seoul-Incheon 1A LAN Airlines Santiago de Chile 2D LAN Argentina Buenos Aires-Aeroparque 2D LAN Perú Lima 2D Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich 2D Passaredo Linhas Aéreas Cuiabá, Fortaleza, Goiânia, Ji-Paraná, Juazeiro do Norte, Palmas, Ribeirão Preto, Rondonópolis, Salvador da Bahia, São José do Rio Preto, Uberlândia, Vitória da Conquista 2C PLUNA Montevideo
Seasonal: Punta del Este [begins December 1][11]2C Qatar Airways Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Doha 2D Singapore Airlines Barcelona, Singapore 1A South African Airways Johannesburg 2D Swiss International Air Lines Zürich 2D TAAG Angola Airlines Luanda 2D TACA Perú Lima 2D TAM Airlines Aracaju, Belém-Val de Cães, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Boa Vista, Brasília, Bogotá, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campo Grande, Caracas, Cuiabá, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Foz de Iguaçu, Frankfurt, Goiânia, Ilhéus, João Pessoa, Lima, London-Heathrow, Londrina, Maceió, Madrid, Manaus, Mexico City, Miami, Milan-Malpensa, Montevideo, Natal, New York-JFK, Orlando, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Recife, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador da Bahia, Santiago de Chile, São José do Rio Preto, São Luís, Vitória 1B TAM Airlines Paraguay Asunción, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Ciudad del Este 1B TAP Portugal Lisbon, Porto 2D TRIP Linhas Aéreas Araçatuba, Araxá, Belo Horizonte-Pampulha, Brasília, Campinas-Viracopos, Criciúma, Cuiabá, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Foz do Iguaçu, Gov. Valadares, Ipatinga, Joinville, Juiz de Fora, Londrina, Manaus, Marília, Maringá, Porto Alegre, Porto Velho, Presidente Prudente, Recife, Rondonópolis, Salvador da Bahia, São José do Rio Preto, Uberlândia, Varginha, Vitória 1A Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk 2D United Airlines Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles 1A Webjet Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Foz do Iguaçu, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador da Bahia 1A Whitejets a Recife [begins December 26][12], Rio de Janeiro-Galeão [begins December 26][12]
Seasonal: Bariloche, Cancún, Maceió, Natal, Orlando, Porto Seguro, Punta Cana, Recifea.^ Airline operating regular and charter flights.
Scheduled cargo
Airlines Destinations ABSA Fortaleza, Manaus, Miami, Recife Rio Linhas Aéreas Brasília, Manaus, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador da Bahia Total Linhas Aéreas Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Florianópolis, Porto Alegre VarigLog Manaus Accidents and incidents
- 28 January 1986: a VASP Boeing 737-2A1 registration PP-SME flying from Guarulhos to Belo Horizonte unknowingly tried to take-off from Guarulhos under foggy conditions from a taxiway. The take-off was aborted, but the aircraft overran, collided with a dyke and broke in two. One passenger died.[13]
- 21 March 1989: a Transbrasil cargo Boeing 707-349C registration PT-TCS operating flight 801, flying from Manaus to São Paulo-Guarulhos, crashed at the district of Vila Barros in Guarulhos, shortly before touch-down at runway 09R. That day, at 12:00 the runway was going to be closed for maintenance and the crew decided to speed up procedures to touch-down before closure (it was already 11:54). In a hurry, one of the crew members, by mistake, activated the air-dynamic brakes and the aircraft lost too much speed to have enough aerodynamic support (Stall). As a consequence the aircraft crashed at approximately 2 km from the airport. There were 25 fatalities which of these three were crew members and 22 were civilians on the accident site. As well as the 22 fatalities, there were also over 100 injured on the ground.[14]
- 14 September 2002: a Total Linhas Aéreas ATR42-312 registration PT-MTS on a cargo flight between São Paulo-Guarulhos and Londrina crashed while en route near Paranapanema. The crew of 2 died.[15]
Access
The Helio Smidt Freeway (SP-019) that serves as access to the airport.
The airport is located 25 km (16 mi) from downtown São Paulo.
Car
The airport has its own highway system: Rodovia Hélio Smidt Highway which connects the airport to Presidente Dutra Highway or Ayrton Senna Highway. Residents of Guarulhos can access the road via Monteiro Lobato Avenue.
Bus
Bus transportation is available through the Airport Bus Service, an executive bus line, administered by EMTU and operated by Consórcio Internorte - Área 3. This service provides transportation between Guarulhos and Congonhas airports, via Tietê Bus Terminal, Palmeiras-Barra Funda Intermodal Terminal, Itaim Bibi, Praça da República, Tatuapé subway station and the circuit of hotels along Paulista Avenue and Rua Augusta. The ride takes about one hour, depending on traffic.[16]
Pássaro Marron, a syndicate of the Internorte Consortium, offers a regular bus line (with a much cheaper price, about a tenth less) connecting Tatuapé subway station with Guarulhos airport every 30 minutes. Ticket counters for this service can be found at the Arrivals areas of both Terminals 1 and 2.
Gol Airlines and TAM Airlines offer for their passengers free bus transfers between Guarulhos and Congonhas airports at regular times.[17][18]
Viação Cometa offers daily departures to and from the airport and the cities of Santos, São Vicente, and Praia Grande.
Caprioli Turismo operates buses between the airport to the city of Campinas daily.
Pássaro Marron offers bus service to São José dos Campos with departures every two hours.
Viação Transdutra offers a line connecting the city of Arujá directly to the airport.
Taxi
Taxi stands are located at the two terminals outside the Baggage Claim areas. It is recommended that travelers use one of the airport taxi companies operated by Guaracoop, a cooperative of taxi drivers that hold the monopoly to operate taxi routes at the airport.
São Paulo Airport Transfers offers transfer services for passengers requiring meet & greet and higher quality vehicles.
Transfer times to popular destinations such as Jardins and Avenida Paulista can take up to two hours during peak traffic, or about 45 minutes in early morning or late evening.
Car Rental
There are car rental facilities at the airport.
Future developments
Panoramic view of the airportOn 31 August 2009, Infraero unveiled a BRL1,489.5 million (USD784.7 million; EUR549.8 million) investment plan to upgrade Guarulhos International Airport, focusing on preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup which will be held in Brazil, São Paulo being one of the venue cities. The investment will be distributed as follows:[19]
- Construction of further taxiways. Value 19M. Completion: April 2011 (work not yet completed in August 2011).
- Enlargement of apron and taxiways. Value 370.5M. Completion: July 2011 (work not yet completed in August 2011).
- Construction of passenger Terminal 3. Value 1,100M. Completion: March 2014.
Central to this investment plan is Terminal 3, which is projected to add 12 million passenger capacity to the 17 million of the existing two terminals. Plans for a third runway were pronounced to be "technically impracticable" and were cancelled in January 2008.
A train service development and construction has also been given high priority. This include an Airport Express Line linking the airport to downtown São Paulo and a Rio–São Paulo high-speed rail connecting Guarulhos to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão and Campinas-Viracopos airports.[20]
See also
References
- ^ a b Infraero Airport Statistics
- ^ Official Airport Website
- ^ "Lei n˚10.314, de 28 de novembro de 2001" (in Portuguese). Lei Direto. 28 November 2001. http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/LEIS/LEIS_2001/L10314.htm. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
- ^ Wingfield, Brian (14 January 2007). "The World's Most-Delayed Airports". Forbes.com. http://www.forbes.com/logistics/2008/01/14/airports-brazil-delays-biz-logistics-cx_bw_0114airports.html. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
- ^ "Cumbica é o campeão nacional de voos atrasados" (in Portuguese). Veja. 18 August 2011. http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/brasil/no-aeroporto-de-guarulhos-1-em-cada-4-voos-atrasa. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ Komatsu, Alberto (16 March 2010). "ANAC vai por limite de pouso e decolagem em mais seis aeroportos" (in Portuguese). Valor Online. http://www.valoronline.com.br/?impresso/empresas/95/6158316/anac-vai-por-limite-de-pouso-e-decolagem-em-mais-seis-aeroportos. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
- ^ Salomon, Marta (18 May 2011). "Galpão vira terminal em Guarulhos" (in Portuguese). O Estado de São Paulo. http://economia.estadao.com.br/noticias/economia,galpao-vira-terminal-em-guarulhos,67459,0.htm. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
- ^ Bitencourt, Rafael (26 April 2011). "Governo define concessão de obras em 3 aeroportos, diz Palocci" (in Portuguese). Valor Online. http://www.valoronline.com.br/online/transportes/15/417433/governo-define-concessao-de-obras-em-3-aeroportos-diz-palocci. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Salomon, Marta; Monteiro, Tânia (1 June 2011). "Governo pretende privatizar três aeroportos e abrir o capital da Infraero" (in Portuguese). O Estado de São Paulo: Economia. http://www.estadao.com.br/estadaodehoje/20110601/not_imp726552,0.php. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ^ "View of São Paulo-Guarulhos airport centered on the Tropic of Capricorn". Google Maps. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-23.437778,-46.468048&spn=0.045991,0.077162&z=14. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ^ Galeno, Biaphra (21 September 2011). "Pluna anuncia voos entre GRU e Punta del Este" (in Portuguese). Panrotas. http://www.panrotas.com.br/noticia-turismo/aviacao/pluna-anuncia-voos-entre-gru-e-punta-del-este_71589.html. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
- ^ a b "Whitejets entra nos voos regulares no Brasil: aposta é no eixo Rio-São Paulo-Recife" (in Portuguese). Presstur. 25 October 2011. http://www.presstur.com/site/news.asp?news=33406. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ "Accident description PP-SME". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19860128-0. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
- ^ "Accident description PT-TCS". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19890321-0. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ "Accident description PT-MTS". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20020914-0. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
- ^ "Sistema Aeroporto" (in Portuguese). EMTU. http://www.emtu.sp.gov.br/aeroporto/. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ "Transporte para aeroportos" (in Portuguese). Gol Airlines. http://www.voegol.com.br/pt-br/servicos/transporte-para-aeroportos/paginas/default.aspx. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- ^ "Traslados Nacionais". TAM Airlines. http://www.tam.com.br/b2c/vgn/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=5ef993f30bb2d210VgnVCM1000009508020aRCRD. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
- ^ Rittner, Daniel; Braga, Paulo Victor (31 August 2009). "Infraero vai gastar R$5 bi em reforma de aeroportos" (in Portuguese). Valor Econômico: pp. A4. http://www.valoronline.com.br.
- ^ "Trem de alta velocidade" (in Portuguese). Ministério dos Transportes. http://www.tavbrasil.gov.br/. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
External links
- Airport information for SBGR at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- Airport information for SBGR at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- Current weather for SBGR at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for GRU at Aviation Safety Network
- São Paulo-Guarulhos Airport Photo Archive at airliners.net
Gallery
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Inaugural plaque at the airport
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The control tower
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Guarulhos Airport at dusk
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Approach Lighting System CAT II at Guarulhos Airport
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External view of Terminal 1 (TPS1)
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Internal view of Terminal 1 (TPS1)
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External view of Terminal 2 (TPS2)
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