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Airport information for Carrasco Airport Country: Uruguay Location: Montevideo Coordinates: 34.50.00S / 056.02.00W IATA Code: MVD Timezone: GMT -3 Direct flights form Carrasco Airport Direct flights to Carrasco Airport Find connecting flights to Carrasco Airport Find connecting flights from Carrasco Airport

You can fly to Carrasco from: Direct fligths from Porto Alegre Salgado Filho Airport Direct fligths from Panama City Tocumen Airport Direct fligths from Rosario Fisherton Airport Direct fligths from Madrid Barajas Airport Direct fligths from Asuncion Silvio Pettirossi Airport Direct fligths from Sao Paulo Guarulhos Airport Direct fligths from Lima J Chavez Airport Direct fligths from Santiago Arturo Merino Benitez Airport Direct fligths from Buenos Aires Jorge Newbery Airport Direct fligths from Curitiba Afonso Pena Airport Direct fligths from Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini Airport Direct fligths from Cordoba Pajas Blancas Airport Direct fligths from Rio de Janeiro Internacional Airport Direct fligths from Miami Airport Direct fligths from Punta Del Este Airport

You can fly from Carrasco to: Direct fligths to Madrid Barajas Airport Direct fligths to Buenos Aires Jorge Newbery Airport Direct fligths to Panama City Tocumen Airport Direct fligths to Lima J Chavez Airport Direct fligths to Cordoba Pajas Blancas Airport Direct fligths to Porto Alegre Salgado Filho Airport Direct fligths to Asuncion Silvio Pettirossi Airport Direct fligths to Santiago Arturo Merino Benitez Airport Direct fligths to Curitiba Afonso Pena Airport Direct fligths to Sao Paulo Guarulhos Airport Direct fligths to Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini Airport Direct fligths to Rio de Janeiro Internacional Airport Direct fligths to Miami Airport Direct fligths to Rosario Fisherton Airport



Carrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (IATA: MVD, ICAO: SUMU) is the biggest airport in Uruguay. It is turn up northward of Ciudad de lah Costa in the Canelones section, in close propinquity to (and east of) the capital town of Montevideo, which it assists. Ciudad de lah Costa is the name of the town where the airport is turn up, which continues into eastern Montevideo. The Carrasco International Airport assists more than 1,500,000 riders each yr, and by 2010 it is projected to assist more than 2,800,000 riders. In 2003, the authority reassigned the disposal, functioning and upkeep of the airport to a private investing group.

This airport currently bear down users an Airport Improvement Fee.

The jetway at the airport have glass walls which supply a spacious and modern experience. However, there is only a individual jetway at the airport. It is rather common for a airplane to be laden using rider jitneys. All coming voyages, even those which use the jetway, still transport riders to the in-migration and reaching lounge via shuttle jitney.

On three February 2007 building set about on a trade name new, modern, US$134 million dollar depot that shall be turn up parallel to Runway 06/24. The new depot, projected by Uruguayan designer Rafael Viñoly, will have auto parkland with capacity for 1200 vehicles, and is scheduled to open in July 2009 and will replace the current depot. This new depot construction will have 4 jetways, separate flooring for arrivals and going away and a big position area  on the top floor. Designed for an initial capacity of 3m it has appartment for enlargement for 2 additional jetways and up to 6m riders per yr before the construction necessitates existent expansion. A new US$7 million dollar freight depot is also being build.

Runway 06/24 has been better and continued to 3200 mts, which lets air hose to function non-stop voyages to the U.S. and Europe. Runway 01/19 was continued to 2250 mts and the 3rd landing track (seldom of all time used) has currently been move out of use since the new depot cuts across it.

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