Congonhas International Airport (IATA Airport Code: CGH), is São Paulo's second airport, situated 8km from the city downtown. It is administered by Infraero, and as of 2003, was the busiest airport in Brazil, with 12,500,000 passengers passing through it. An IATA airport code, known by the IATA as an IATA location identifier or, simply, a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ... The title of this article contains the character ã. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Sao Paulo. ... Infraero is a Brazilian government corporation created in 1970, that is responsible for administering the main Brazilian commercial airports. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1957, the airport was the third busiest of the world for cargo and freight. 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Its name came from a plant that was common in the area where the airport was built in 1919. It was the city's main airport until 1985, when Guarulhos International Airport was built because of congestion at Congonhas and because Congonhas could not handle transatlantic flights. 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (IATA: GRU, ICAO: SBGR) — better known as Guarulhos Airport — is an airport that serves São Paulo, Brazil, located in Guarulhos municipality, 22 km northeast of the São Paulo city centre (23°25′55″S, 46°28′06″W). ...

Nowadays, the airport continues to be important to the city for regional and short-distance domestic flights. Even with the construction of Guarulhos Airport (35km away from the city's downtown), the Congonhas airport continues to face the problem of congestion, both for the number of passengers and the number of flights.

Its halls are considered one of the more outstanding examples of modern architecture in São Paulo.

Congonhas is the main hub of Gol, a low-fare airline, and the third largest airline in Brazil. Gol Transportes Aéreos is a low-cost airline based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. ...

It is located at Avenida Washington Luís s/nº - Campo Belo.

General information

• Number of Passengers: 12,500,000 (2003)
• Runways:
  • 17R/35L: 1939 x 49 m; equipped with CAT l on 17R
  • 17L/35R: 1437 x 49 m
• Main Terminal: 37,311 m²
• Main destinations: Belo Horizonte (flights every 15min), Brasília (flights every 30min), Rio de Janeiro (flights every 15 min)

Belo Horizonte (a Portuguese name meaning beautiful horizon) is among the most important cities in Brazil. ... Brasília from space, November 1990 Niemeyers Cathedral Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. ... Ipanema beach, in the South Zone, immortalised by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Morais song The Girl from Ipanema Cristo Redentor, the famous Christ the Redeemer statue at the top of the Corcovado mountain A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in...

Airlines

• Gol (Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Londrina, Maringá, Rio de Janeiro)

• OceanAir (Cascavel, Chapecó, Sorocaba, Videira)

• Pantanal Linhas Aereas (Araçatuba, Bauru, Marília, Juíz de Fora, Mucuri, Presidente Prudente, Uberaba)

• TAM (Belém, Belo Horzonte, Brasília, Campinas, Campo Grande, Cuiába, Curitiba, Goiania, Florianopolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, Ilheus, Joinville, Londrina, Maceió, Manaus, Marabá, Maringá, Natal, Navegantes, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Porto Velho, Recife, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, São Luis, Uberlândia)

• TRIP Linhas Aereas (Campinas, Londrina, Maringá, Sinop)

• Varig (Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Curitiba, Florianopolis, Joinville, Maringá, Navegantes, Passo Fundo, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro)