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Airport information for Viru Viru Airport Country: Bolivia Location: Santa Cruz Coordinates: 17.38.28S / 063.08.02W IATA Code: VVI Timezone: GMT -4 Direct flights form Viru Viru Airport Direct flights to Viru Viru Airport Find connecting flights to Viru Viru Airport Find connecting flights from Viru Viru Airport

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Viru Viru International Airport (IATA: VVI, ICAO: SLVR) is an air power installation turn up in Santa Cruz de lah Sierra, Bolivia.

The thought to have an airport in Santa Cruz was conceptualized in 1976. Soon after, building of the airport set about. Viru Viru fill up a hole in the Bolivian air power industry: With Santa Cruz being the 2nd biggest town in the South American state, Viru Viru got an eminent relate between La Paz and the remainder of the state. Because La Paz is a high height town, it is able to be hard to hit by auto from other Bolivian towns, and many travellers pick out to wing from Viru Viru or else. Viru Viru is the biggest international airport in Bolivia.

Viru Viru is able to manage the biggest commercial jet plane. Most getting voyages are either domestic voyages, voyages from neighbour South American states, North American voyages and some European voyages.

In 2005, the airport assisted 985,794 riders.

Operators

On March 1, 1997 the Government of Bolivia moved into into a 25 yr contract with Airport Group International to function the 3 biggest airports in Bolivia – El Alto International Airport in La Paz, Jorge Wilstermann International Airport in Cochabamba and Viru Viru International Airport. Servicios de Aeropuertos Bolivianos Sociedad Anonima (SABSA) was made to function the grant. In 1999 Airport Group International was bought by TBI plc and, in 2004, Spain's Abertis/AENA bought TBI.

Incidents

On March 8, 2006, an Argentine air force Learjet 35 winging from El Alto International Airport in La Paz to Viru Viru crashed after start, assassination all 6 mortals onboard.

October 2007 Dispute

During the hebdomad of Oct. 14, 2007, some local inhabitants protesting the federal authority do an armed try to preclude some international voyages from going forth unless they do hard currency payments as "districting fees" to local functionaries. Governor of Santa Cruz Ruben Costas was cited as state the national air traffic command office’s “corruptness stages are merely unsustainable". The Bolivian armed forces clutched the airport on Oct. 18. Javier Garcia, the caput of general aviation, stated the airport will stay under federal command until it is clear there shall be no more perturbations.

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