| Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade |
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| IATA: PLU – ICAO: SBBH | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public/Military | ||
| Operator | Infraero | ||
| Serves | Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | ||
| Location | Pampulha | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,589 ft / 789 m | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 13/31 | 2,505 | 8,220 | Asphalt |
| Sources: Infraero,[1] DAFIF[2][3] | |||
Belo Horizonte Airport[1] (IATA: PLU, ICAO: SBBH), also known as Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport,[2][4] is an airport located in the Pampulha region, eight kilometers from the city center of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many The ICAO (ˌaɪˌkeɪˈoʊ Airport code or location indicator is a four-letter Alphanumeric Code designating each airport around Infraero is a Brazilian Government corporation created in 1970 and responsible for administering the main Brazilian commercial airports Belo Horizonte ( Portuguese for "beautiful horizon", (bɛloɾiˈzõtʃi) is the capital of Minas Gerais state located in the Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, the second most populous and fourth largest by area in the federation |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld Pampulha is a man-made lagoon located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil The term above mean sea level ( AMSL) refers to the Elevation (on the ground or Altitude (in the Air) of any object relative to the A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A runway ( RWY) is a strip of land on an Airport, on which Aircraft can take off and land. A runway ( RWY) is a strip of land on an Airport, on which Aircraft can take off and land. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Infraero is a Brazilian Government corporation created in 1970 and responsible for administering the main Brazilian commercial airports DAFIF or the Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File is a complete and comprehensive database of up-to-date aeronautical data including information on airports airways An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many The ICAO (ˌaɪˌkeɪˈoʊ Airport code or location indicator is a four-letter Alphanumeric Code designating each airport around An airport is a location where Aircraft such as airplanes, Helicopters and blimps take off and land Pampulha is a man-made lagoon located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand Belo Horizonte ( Portuguese for "beautiful horizon", (bɛloɾiˈzõtʃi) is the capital of Minas Gerais state located in the Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, the second most populous and fourth largest by area in the federation |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld It has 186 daily scheduled flights connecting Belo Horizonte to the rest of the country and smaller cities in the state’s interior. [1]
On November 16, 2004, Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has officially changed the airport's name to Aeroporto de Belo Horizonte/Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in homage to Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond de Andrade, born in Itabira, a city of the state of Minas Gerais. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (pronounced /lu'iz i'nasju 'lulɐ da 'siwvɐ/; born October 27, 1945) known simply as Lula, is the thirty-fifth and Carlos Drummond de Andrade ( October 31, 1902 - August 17, 1987) was perhaps the most influential Brazilian Poet of
In April 2005, the state's government has decided to move most of its traffic to Tancredo Neves International Airport (Confins), because Pampulha couldn't support the amount of traffic it was handling. Tancredo Neves International Airport, popularly known as Confins International Airport, is located 38 km from downtown Belo Horizonte.
In 2007, the airport handled 759,824 passengers and 52,812 aircraft movements[5].
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Airlines and destinations
- TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) (Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont)
- Total Linhas Aéreas (Altamira, Araguaína, Araxá, Belém, Brasília, Carajás, Diamantina, Governador Valadares, Ipatinga, Manaus, Montes Claros, Parintins, Patos de Minas, Porto Trombetas, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Santarém, Tucuruí, Uberaba, Uberlândia, Vitória)
- Webjet Linhas Aéreas (Rio de Janeiro-Galeão)
See also
References
- ^ a b c Belo Horizonte Airport, official site
- ^ a b Airport information for SBBH at World Aero Data. TAM Airlines ( Portuguese: TAM Linhas Aéreas) the Southern Hemisphere 's largest Airline; is based in São Paulo and operates scheduled Total Linhas Aereas is an Airline based in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Webjet Linhas Aéreas is a Low-cost airline based at Jacarepagua Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The following is a list of Brazil's busiest airports by aircraft movements (how busy the runways are and passengers traffic (how busy the terminals are Source: DAFIF. DAFIF or the Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File is a complete and comprehensive database of up-to-date aeronautical data including information on airports airways
- ^ Airport information for PLU at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF. DAFIF or the Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File is a complete and comprehensive database of up-to-date aeronautical data including information on airports airways
- ^ (Portuguese) Guia de Aeródromos Brasileiros
- ^ Infraero airport statistics for 2007 http://www.infraero.gov.br/upload/arquivos/movi/mov.operac.1207.pdf