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Eldorado Airport
Airport Directory » Colombia » Bogota » Eldorado AirportEl Nuevo Dorado International Airport (IATA: BOG, ICAO: SKBO), antecedently named El Dorado International Airport, is an international airport turn up in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the biggest Latin American airport in terms of freight motilities 578,812 short ton (2008) and the 4th in terms of rider traffic, only behind Mexico's Benito Juarez International Airport, São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport and Congonhas-São Paulo Airport; transporting 13,456,331 riders in 2008; as good as the biggest airport in Colombia and the independent international and domestic air gateway in the state, assisting as an eminent hub for Avianca (the national flag bearer of Colombia), AeroRepública, Aires, EasyFly and other eminent Cargo Companies. It is bring off by Opain (acronym of Operadora Aeroportuaria Internacional), a syndicate composed of Colombian building / technologist companies and the Swiss Flughafen Zürich AG. Opain will also function the airport for the next 20 yr.
El Dorado is, politically and economically, the most eminent airport in Colombia and assists as the commonwealth's primary international gateway, accounting for 49% of the aggregative air traffic in the commonwealth. It cares all domestic and international voyages into Bogotá, D.C. and shoot a line the world's 3rd biggest districting field 6.9 foursquare klicks (1,700 acres) of district. El Dorado is turn up approximately 15 klicks (9.3 mi) due west of the town centre. The airport savours a connexion with Avenida El Dorado (Calle 26) 1 of Bogotá's fastest landing track which runs across the town in the east-west axis onto the town centre and lasting public transportation system (coaches and cab). By the finish of the yr 2008, set about the building of the TransMilenio, which will link the airport with the massive transit of the town.
Facilities
The airport has 2 rider depots, the independent depot, El Dorado, named after the famed fable of El Dorado, was built in 1959 and cares all international reaches, as good as all other air hose and all of Avianca's international voyages. Check-in counters, ticket counters, in-migration business office and usages are turn up on the lower stage while info boards, info business office, waiting appartment and out-migration are turn up on the upper stage.
The independent construction has 2 concourses, the national concourse and the international concourse. The national concourse has 11 entrances and additional five for regional voyages. The international concourse has nine entrances. This independent construction has a rider area of 54,000 square foot (5,000 mtwo) and supplies different services such as travel agency, drug shops, eating house and cafeterias, book shops and trade stores, ATM machines and Duty Free stores. Telecom offers phone service for international and national names, as good as telefax and Internet service ($11 USD for 24 60 minutes of WiFi access). At the subject and international reaches, riders is able to encounter holidaymaker info business office and transportation system services within the town.
The 2nd depot is the Puente Aéreo Terminal (Air Bridge Terminal, in English) which opened in 1981, is a in private owned depot that solely assists Avianca's and its subordinate SAM's, domestic and regional voyages. Initially, the depot solely assisted riders on the Miami, New York-JFK, Cali, Medellín, Pasto, and Montería paths. Newly restituted (Oct, 2006), after an investing of $7.5 million USD. El Puente Aéreo has get the most modern domestic depot in Latin America. The depot manages a aggregative of more than 120 daily voyages with capability to deal 4.4 million riders each year. It adds, as good, a build area of 4,416 square foot (410.3 mtwo) and 14 domestic entrances. Some of the benefits of the Puente Aéreo Terminal include enter link up clips between domestic voyages. The depot also provides additional services for travellers and visitants, such as access to storing installations, national and international names, cab services, ATM machines, eating house and fast nutrient eating house and book stores.
History
The El Dorado Passenger Terminal was projected during the authority of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Its building set about in 1955 and moved into in service at the stop of 1959, replacing the meanwhile depot, and getting together other parts of the then trade name new airport. The new depot dwell of several taxi strip, upkeep platforms, parking area , a basement, rider hallways, Mezzanine area and other comforts. Its 2nd floor dwell of the going area with, executive director waiting appartment, and eating house. The Third floor dwell principally of business office for the air hose and the business office of other airport related to services. The 4th floor maintained the Offices of Management and Dependencies of the pull off corporation which described through to the Fifth floor. The Sixth floor incorporated principally the dependences of meteorology and influence station of air piloting helps of the ECA. The Seventh floor maintained the path command installations for the landing track and taxi strip, and the Eighth floor incorporated air traffic radio detection and ranging comptrollers. The Ninth floor incorporated the airport's electrical upkeep and business office, and the Tenth floor maintained the control tower and area air traffic comptrollers.
In 1973, the airport hit a milepost by assisting well-nigh 3 million riders, and functioning well-nigh 5 million pieces of baggage. That yr prove to be 1 of most prosperous for the industry of air power, registering high rider development in both domestic and international burdens. In the yr, the necessity for a 2nd landing track at El Dorado was show under related that the explosive development would guide to overcongestion in due clip.
In 1981, Avianca attempted the building of the Puente Aéreo Terminal kick off by President Julio César Turbay Ayala, to assist its eminent, high denseness voyages from Bogotá to Cali, Medellín, Miami and New York City.
In 1990, the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics travel to the 3rd floor in the independent construction. During this same yr, the Centro de Estudios Aeronáuticos (CEA) was build and at the east division of the airport the construction for the National Center for Aeronavigation.
In 1998, the 2nd landing track was officially opened.
Over the past few yr, the baggage demand area has been continued on both the northern and southern parts of the airport, and the Departure lounges towards the due west have also been greatly spread out, adding more eating house and stores.
Traffic and statistics
| Rank | City | Passenger |
Rank Change |
% Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One | Miami, United States | 572,942 | ▬ | ▲ 1.39% |
| Two | Panama City, Panama | 485,528 | ▲ One | ▲ 7.33% |
| Three | Caracas, Venezuela | 475,862 | ▼ One | ▼ 1.72% |
| Four | Madrid, Spain | 430,898 | ▬ | ▲ 7.87% |
| Five | Lima, Peru | 413,144 | ▬ | ▲ 22,27% |
| Six | Quito, Ecuador | 285,494 | ▬ | ▼ 8.06% |
| Seven | New York, United States | 228,404 | ▬ | ▲ 11.24% |
| Eight | Mexico City, Mexico | 226,899 | ▬ | ▲ 10.72% |
| Nine | Paris, France | 173,740 | ▬ | ▲ 0.79% |
| Ten | São Paulo, Brazil | 161,977 | ▲ One | ▲ 49.30% |
| 11 | Ft. Lauderdale, USA | 133,749 | ▲ Three | ▲ 33.88% |
| Twelve | Santiago, Chile | 117,037 | ▲ One | ▲ 12.14% |
| 13 | Atlanta, USA | 104,712 | ▼ One | ▼ 3.23% |
| 14 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 99,945 | ▼ Four | ▼ 8,66% |
| 15 | San Jose, Costa Rica | 97,914 | ▬ | ▲ 7.84% |
| 16 | Guayaquil, Ecuador | 94,450 | ▬ | ▲ 4.64% |
| 17 | Houston, USA | 87,345 | ▬ | ▲ 11.54% |
| 18 | Oranjestad, Aruba | 70,764 | ▬ | ▲ 9.57% |
| 19 | Los Angeles, USA | 61,463 | ▲ | ▲ 22.31% |
| 20 | Valencia, Venezuela | 59,945 | ▲ | ▲ |
Avianca's briny hub
On December 10, 1998, Avianca officially opened its hub in Bogotá, offering an judged 6,000 possible connexions per hebdomad, including greater figure of oftenness, schedules and destinations assisted. Thus, the air hose set about to net income from the geographic place, population, and base of Colombia’s capital town in say to benefit the commonwealth, as good as international traveler. Connections between domestic and international destinations are now functioned direct and through codesharing understandings with air hose such as Delta Air Lines, Mexicana, Lacsa (division of Grupo Taca), Iberia and Air Canada.
Operations out of the Bogotá hub let travellers to easy tie:
- Between Domestic Destinations (such as Medellín to San Andres).
- From a domestic destination to an international destination (Such as Cali to Los Angeles).
- From an international destination to a domestic town (Such as Ft. Lauderdale to Baranquilla).
- Between 2 international destinations (Such as Paris to Guayaquil).
- and allowing for simpler codeshare connexions (such as Atlanta to Cartagena with Delta Air Lines and Avianca).
The hub also characteristics installations for easy theodolites, such as exclusive check-in counters for travellers in theodolite, as good as coaches for the internal transportation system between Puente Aéreo and El Dorado depots, and a special lounge for international theodolite riders to avoid having to go through Colombian usages and in-migration between theodolites.
Airport enlargement
On August 24, 2006, the Colombian authority presented a contract for a viable external investing of at smallest 650 million USD for the airport's enlargement and modernisation to Opain (acronym of Operadora Aeroportuaria Internacional), a syndicate composed of Colombian building / technologist companies and the Swiss Flughafen Zürich AG. Opain will also function the airport for the next 20 yr.
The enlargement program includes:
- The building of a new international depot and the modernisation of the current depot (hereafter national depot) will have a aggregative of 133,875 square foot (12,437.4 mtwo) for riders, 16 entrances, 144 Check-in counters and 58,924 parking zone. The airport shall be fit out with the most modern luggage deal engineering as good as voyage data system and security and guarding chemical mechanism. The airport will have a capacity of 16 million riders a yr.
- The building of a new freight depot, which will permit easier access for motortrucks, 68,000 square foot (6,300 mtwo) for storage, 7,000 square foot (650 mtwo) for business office and 26 parkland places for airplanes.
- The building of a new office construction annexed to the new international depot, the construction shall be six flooring tall and will have an area of 4,500 square foot (420 mtwo).
- The building of a new upkeep area (88,000 square foot (8,200 mtwo) with an appropriate turbine trial run and the sound barrier that are necessary to avoid sound pollution.
All the constructions shall be earthquake-resistant.
The Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics and the Ministry of Transport have to do a determination over a proposal do by Opain, in which the domestic help and international cargo area are to be location at the west division of the complex, make it easy for motortrucks and shipment vehicles to access the cargo area without having to go into the town. This proposal will permit as good, further enlargements of the rider depot.
Construction get down on September 20, 2007 and should finish in 2012.
The 1st division of this massive building program was opened to the public on March 20, 2008. After six calendar month of constant quantity work, the check-in area was spread out, the new CUTE system was set up as good as a new luggage care system. All these works were do in say to assist with the already chaotic airport until the new depot is build.
The 2nd division set about on March 20, 2008 and shall be open to the public on September 20, 2009. This includes a new international freight depot, the adecuation of the new national freight depot and the destruction of the existent national freight depot.
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