Jorge Chávez International Airport (IATA Airport Code: LIM) is Peru's main national and international gateway, serving over 4.5 million passengers per year. A single runway airport, located in Callao, Peru, the port city now fully integrated with Lima, capital city of Perú, the airport is named after the pioneer Peruvian pilot Jorge Chávez. It was the hub for Aeroperu and Faucett for many years, and now it serves as a hub for many new aviation companies.
On August 2, 1997, a wheelchair-confined elderly passenger was boarding a Continental AirlinesBoeing 757-200 flight from Lima to Newark, New Jersey. He was told by a gate agent to remain at the top of the steps while the agent loaded the wheelchair into the cargo bin. Defying the agent's orders, he walked into the aircraft. He walked through the galley and the catering door. He fell to the tarmac to a space between the plane and the catering truck. The man died of his fall injuries. None of the eight crew members or the other 141 passengers were injured.
LimaAirport Partners SRL was the company organised by the consortium to fulfil the requirements of the concession agreement and is responsible for managing, operating, maintaining, developing and expanding the airport.
The airport had an increase of 25% in tourist traffic in the first quarter of 2005 and planes fly to over 45 destinations in 20 countries.
Cargo volume is expected to rise from 86,000t/yr in 1998 to 183,000t/yr in year 8 (freight volume in 2005 was actually 177,062t an increase of 3.2% on 2004 and on target for the 2008 figure); 277,000t/yr in year 15 and 566,000t/yr in year 30.
Jorge Chávez InternationalAirport is Peru's main national and international gateway, serving over 4.5 million passengers per year.
The airport was privatized on February 14, 2001 and is now managed and operated by LimaAirport Partners (LAP), a joint venture of Bechtel Corporation, Flughafen Frankfurt Main AG[?], Cosapi S.A.[?].
In the middle 1990's, tragedy touched the airport, when an Aeroperu[?] Boeing 757 that had left the airport crashed in the waters of the Pacific Ocean while heading to Buenos Aires.
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