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Viracopos Airport
Airport Directory » Brazil » Sao Paulo » Viracopos AirportViracopos/Campinas International Airport (IATA: VCP, ICAO: SBKP) is an international airport in Campinas, province of São Paulo, Brazil. The airport is turn up 99 kilometre (62 land mile) from the capital town of São Paulo and 20 kilometre (12 land mile) from Campinas, close by the huge Bandeirantes-Anhangüera main road complex, which links the capital town to the inside of São Paulo province.
Besides being a reasonably busy rider depot, it is the second-largest freight airport in Brazil. One of its briny characteristics is that it is seldom closed due to inclemency statuses (an mean five solar days per yr). It was opened in 1960, as antecedently São Paulo missed an airport capable of having (then) new long-range jet plane such as the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8.
So, before the pass completion of São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport in 1985, Viracopos was in theory the independent international gateway to São Paulo. In pattern, nevertheless, the field's distance from the town made it real inconvenient for riders and air hose. As a result, international rider service direct to Viracopos was limited, in malice of São Paulo being Brazil's biggest and economically most eminent town; most international riders to São Paulo just choose to wing or else to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport and then link up to the little Congonhas Airport, which lies in the bosom of São Paulo, real close to business district and to the leading downtown.
At that clip, Viracopos even looked on the Guinness Book of Records as the farthest airport from the town it allegedly assisted, a dubious statute title that currently belike balances with Stockholm-Västerås Airport, a secondary airport assisting (at smallest nominally) Stockholm, Sweden, turn up approximately 110 kilometre (68 land mile) from that town.
Viracopos is unusual in being bring up to with 2 IATA codifications. Besides VCP, the codification CPQ also refers to it. There is a differentiation between these 2 codifications in reserves systems. VCP, together with Congonhas CGH and Guarulhos GRU characteristic the multiple airport put around Sao Paulo (codification SAO). An air hose that registers services with the codification VCP has voyages exposed when riders or travel agent call for service from Sao Paulo, whereas voyages registered with the codification CPQ are exhibited as service from a non-SAO airport.
The Campinas district, like most of the inside of São Paulo province, is 1 of the most prosperous in Brazil, with an impressive economical end product, and its local domestic rider traffic is big enough to do Viracopos still a comparatively busy airport. However, there are no more scheduled international rider voyages functioning at Viracopos.
Facilities
Facilities at the airport include:
- 150-180 voyages per solar day
- 2,500 riders/solar day
- 40 load air hose corporations.
- 3,240 m (10,630 foot) landing track
- 60,000 square meter ((646,000 square foot) of freight depots.
- 1,700 square meter (18,300 square foot) for fauna load
- 1,480 cubic metres (52,200 square foot) of refrigerated infinite
- 65 m (213 foot)-high air traffic control tower.
As a major import/export hub, Viracopos savours 'evince lanes' for messenger traffic which are exceptionally quick and unbureaucratic for Brazilian criterion.
Accidents
- November 23, 1961 - A de Havilland Comet four fanjet with enrollment LV-AHR crashed after take-off, assassination all twelve crew and 40 riders on board. The accident was ascribed to airplane pilot mistake.Main article: 1961 Aerolineas Argentinas Campinas air calamity
Original article.