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La Aurora Airport
Airport Directory » Guatemala » Guatemala City » La Aurora AirportLa Aurora International Airport (IATA: GUA, ICAO: MGGT) assists Guatemala City, Guatemala. It is turn up 6 kilometre southward of Guatemala City's heart and 25 kilometre from Antigua. It is administrated by the Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil.
La Aurora International Airport is going through massive modernisation and enlargement works. The airport currently is able to accept a greater figure of voyages and bigger aircraft. It furnishes high standard installments to the traveler. The old depot has been restituted in accordance of rights with its original project. It has been partially pulverised and is was expanded by a new glass-designed concourse in the northward, able to go to up to 22 aircraft. The greater division of the labor has been finished in December 2008. Airlines function from the two depots the airport now has.
On June 2007 the airport was evidenced as Category I by the FAA.
Infrastructure and News
La Aurora is being restituted, alongside with other airports in Guatemala, such as Mundo Maya International Airport, Quetzaltenango Airport, Puerto Barrios Airport, and San José Airport.
In July 2007, seven new entrances were opened. These entrances were fit out with jetway spans and modern conveniences. A new parkland garage was also built and it is able to deal up to 500 vehicles.
There are trade name new ticket counters. 2007 conveyed eminent entrance enlargement (11 new entrances were available get down December 2007). The airport currently has 2 concourses. The northern concourse has twelve traditional entrances and three distant entrances. The central concourse, used for bigger aircraft, furnishes 4-6 entrances depending on the size of it of the aircraft.
Four auto renting corporations function out of La Aurora: Avis, Budget, Hertz and National. There are money exchange business office, bars, eating house, and stores. Restaurants include: Pollo Campero, & Cafe, McDonalds, Subway, Cafe Gitane, Cafe Barista, L'scala, Los Añejos Bar and Lounge, Cinnabon, Pizza Hut. The airport number will short ton of national trades shops as good as modern duty free shop shops such as La Riviera, amongst plenties of others. Other installations include info stalls and force, a local post office, a pharmaceutics, hotel reserve stations, money exchage business office, banks, and holidaymaker business office. The airport imposes a security fee (departure taxation) of US$3 or Q20.00 Guatemalan quetzales on all going away travellers.
The airport's landing track now measure out 3,000 metres. There have been attempts in the past to spread out the landing track but this has not yet been possible since there's a commercial area to the northward of the landing track and a little ravine near the southern side of the landing track.
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