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Simon Bolivar Airport
Airport Directory » Ecuador » Guayaquil » Simon Bolivar AirportJosé Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, once named Simón Bolívar International Airport (IATA: GYE, ICAO: SEGU) (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional José Joaquín de Olmedo) is an airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador, named after José Joaquín de Olmedo, a eminent Ecuadorian poet, and 1st city manager of the town of Guayaquil.
The airport, which has the newest depot in Ecuador, was renamed after José Joaquín de Olmedo in 2006, in readying for the startup of the new 50,000 sq. metre national and international depot on July 27, 2006. Although there was an inaugural voyage on July 28, 2006, most air hose did not function whole from the new depot until August 13, 2006. After that date, the old depot was closed, and work is to start out during the last one-fourth of 2006 to turn it into a rule heart. There are also architectural plans to construct a hotel next to the new depot.
The building of the new depot and enlargement of the landing track was eventually make up one's mind in 2003-2004, yr after doing the conclusion that the current base was not sufficient to cover the town's necessitates, but that it was not yet commercially viable to construct an all new airport in the Daule area .
The original labor in 2003-2004 contemplated the building of a 28,000 sq. metre international depot and the elongating functioning of the old depot, which shall be go forth to deal only domestic voyages. However, it was subsequently determined that the new depot would manage both subject and international traffic (so the bigger, 50,000 sq. metre construction) , and that the older depot shall be closed. The airport is be after to assist the town of Guayaquil for ten to 15 yr set about in 2006. After this, it is anticipated to attain capacity (5 million riders a yr), and when this fall out a new airport shall be built in the Daule area , some 20 km outside the town, near the main road that links Guayaquil to Salinas and other coastal cities.
The airport is turn up five kilometre northward of Guayaquil's center, on the Avenida de lahs Américas, and has a landing track with a length of 2,790 meters (9,154 foot), an lift of five m (16 foot), and is able to assist Boeing 747s, MD-11s and A340-600s.
The departure taxation from José Joaquín de Olmedo is as of 2009 US$27,75 (international), and there is no domestic taxation unless traveling to the Galapagos, in which example there is $10 holidaymaker card fee and $100 visitant fee account payable like a shot upon reaching in Baltra or San Cristobol (hard currency only).
Buses and cab link the airport to Guayaquil's town center.
José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport was named "Best Airport in Latin America 2008" by BussinessWeek Magazine.
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