Afonso Pena International Airport

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Afonso Pena International Airport

IATA: CWB - ICAO: SBCT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Infraero
Serves		Curitiba
Elevation AMSL		2,988 ft (911 m)
Coordinates		25°31′42.51″S, 049°10′32.79″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
11/29	5,905	1,800	Asphalt
15/33	7,267	2,215	Asphalt

Afonso Pena International Airport (IATA: CWB, ICAO: SBCT) is Curitiba's major airport, located 18km southeast from the downtown, in the city of São José dos Pinhais. It is one of the most modern Brazilian terminals. The airport includes a small museum, a playcenter and a minishopping with 60 stores inside the main terminal.

As with many important Brazilian airports, Afonso Pena (named after the Brazilian President Afonso Pena, in 1996), was built in the Second World War by the Americans, to give cover in the war. In 1974, the airport passed to the administration of Infraero. In 1996, Infraero built a new passenger terminal, and the old terminal was refurbished and is currently being used as a cargo terminal.

The main problems of the airport are the imprevisible and unstable weather conditions of the region, the mist in the morning hours of winter days and the 11/29 runway, the auxiliary one, too small and with old equipment (the 15/33 operates CAT lll).^{[citation needed]}

[edit] General Information

Terminal: 26,000 m², with 6 fingers, capable of handling 4.5 million annual passengers
Parking places: 800
Runways
- 15/33 2,215 m x 45 m
- 11/29 1,880 m x 45 m
Annual passengers: 3.532.234 (2006)
Monthly flight operations: 5500
Monthly cargo tonnage: 2000 t
Distance to downtown Curitiba: 18 km

[edit] Airlines

BRA (São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, many other destinations)
Gol (São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Foz do Iguaçu, Londrina, Maringá, Asuncion, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Florianópolis, Santa Cruz de la Sierra)
NHT Linhas Aéreas
OceanAir (Maringa, Londrina, São Paulo, Campo Grande, many other destinations)
TAM (Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Buenos Aires, Campinas, Florianopolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, Londrina, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos)
TRIP Linhas Aéreas
Varig (São Paulo-Congonhas)
WebJet Linhas Aéreas (Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão)
American Airlines (São Paulo)