Guarulhos International Airport

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Guarulhos International Airport Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport Cumbica International Airport

IATA: GRU - ICAO: SBGR
Summary
Airport type		Military/Public
Operator		Infraero
Serves		São Paulo
Elevation AMSL		2,459 ft (750 m)
Coordinates		23°25′55″S, 46°28′10″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
09R/27L	9,843	3,000	Asphalt
09L/27R	12,140	3,700	Asphalt

Guarulhos International Airport (IATA: GRU, ICAO: SBGR), officially known as Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport, is an airport that serves São Paulo, Brazil, located in Guarulhos municipality, 22 km northeast of the São Paulo city centre. It is sometimes called Cumbica International Airport, after the suburb in which it is located. Cumbica is also the name of an adjacent air force base.

Guarulhos has two runways with a third runway under consideration, and beginning of construction is expected in 2006, expected to be 1800 x 30 m long.

The airport has 2 passenger and 5 cargo terminals, with a new passenger terminal under planning as of 2004; the passengers terminals are actually the same building, so there is no significant inconvenience in moving between the two. Several modifications in both terminals were made to alleviate congestion until the beginning of construction of T3, scheduled to start in 2006.

Guarulhos, Brazil's largest international airport, will, along with airports at Recife, Salvador, Maceió, Brasília and Rio de Janeiro, benefit from a US$1.65 billion upgrade plan that Infraero (the Brazilian airport authority) will carry out between 2003 and 2006.

In 1999, 16.5 million people passed through Guarulhos International Airport. By the time Infraero's plan to modernise Brazil's airports is complete in 2006, it was hoped that this number will be close to 28.5 million, but since then, the number fell to 11.5 million, being surpassed by Congonhas International Airport as São Paulo's busiest airport, which moved 12.5 million in 2003.

[edit] Airlines

The following airlines fly into Guarulhos:

Aerolíneas Argentinas (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza)
Aeroméxico (Mexico City)
Aerosur (La Paz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra)
Air Canada (Toronto)
Air China (Beijing, Madrid) [starts Dec. 10, 2006]
Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, New York-JFK)
Avianca (Bogotá)
- Avianca operated by OceanAir (Aracaju, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Maceió, Petrolina, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador)
BRA Transportes Aéreos (Aracajú, Brasília, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Goiânia, Juazeiro do Norte, Maceió, Marília, Palmas, Porto Velho, Recife, Rio Branco, São Luís, Teresina)
British Airways (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, London-Heathrow)
Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)
Copa Airlines (Panama City)
Cubana de Aviación (Havana)
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK)
Gol (Asunción, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Curitiba, Córdoba, Montevideo, Navegantes, Porto Alegre, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santiago de Chile, Vitoria)
Iberia (Madrid)
Japan Airlines (New York-JFK, Tokyo-Narita)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
LAN Airlines (Santiago)
- LAN Argentina (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza)
- LANExpress (Santiago)
- LAN Peru (Lima)
Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (Santa Cruz de la Sierra)
Lufthansa (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Frankfurt, Munich)
Pluna (Montevideo, Punta del Este)
South African Airways (Johannesburg)
Swiss International Air Lines (Santiago, Zürich)
TACA
- TACA Peru (Lima)
TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Porto)
TAM (Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campo Grande, Cuiaba, Curitiba, Florianopolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, London-Heathrow, Londrina, Manaus, Miami, Natal, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto Alegre, Porto Seguro, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador, Santiago, Vitoria)
TAM Mercosur (Asunción, Ciudad del Este)
United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles)
Varig (Brasília, Bogota, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Caracas, Curitiba, Fernando de Noronha, Fortaleza, Frankfurt, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador)

Many of these airlines have lounges at Guarulhos, most of which have Internet access and mobile phone support, along with two meeting rooms for corporate executives.

There are also several restaurants, bookstores and cafés in the airport, and the entire airport has Wi-Fi for wireless access to the Internet.

The airport alone is responsible for 35% of Infraero's income.