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, and in 2011, according to the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil, 25% of the flights left with delays greater than 15 minutes. Guarulhos has slot restrictions operating with a maximum of 45 operations/hour, being one of the three airports with such restrictions in Brazil.
It is operated by Infraero and some of its facilities are shared with the São Paulo Air Force Base of the Brazilian Air Force.
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. 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.
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.
The Tropic of Capricorn passes directly through the southern tip of the airport.
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/
Wing
Aerolíneas 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
El Al Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion [ends November 10] 1B
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] 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], Rio de Janeiro-Galeão [begins December 26]
Seasonal: Bariloche, Cancún, Maceió, Natal, Orlando, Porto Seguro, Punta Cana, Recife
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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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| Panoramic view of the Guarulhos International Airport |
On 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:
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.
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