Afonso Pena International Airport

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Afonso Pena International Airport
IATA: CWB - ICAO: SBCT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Serves		Curitiba
Elevation AMSL		2,988 ft (911 m)
Coordinates		25°31′42.51″S, 049°10′32.79″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
11/29	5,905	1,800	Asphalt
15/33	7,267	2,215	Asphalt

Afonso Pena International Airport (IATA: CWB, ICAO: SBCT) is Curitiba's major airport, located 18km southeast from the downtown, in the city of São José dos Pinhais. It is one of the most modern Brazilian terminals. The airport includes a small museum, a playcenter and a minishopping with 60 stores inside the main terminal.

As with many important Brazilian airports, Afonso Pena (named after the Brazilian President Afonso Pena, in 1996), was built in the Second World War by the Americans, to give cover in the war. In 1974, the airport passed to the administration of Infraero. In 1996, Infraero built a new terminal (the actual one), being the old one reformulated, being nowadays a modern freight terminal.

The main problems of the airport are the imprevisible and unstable weather conditions of the region, the mist in the morning hours of winter days and the 11/29 runway, the auxiliary one, too small and with old equipment (the 15/33 operates CAT lll).

[edit] General Information

Terminal: 26,000 m², with 6 fingers, capable of handling 4.5 million annual passengers
Parking places: 800
Runways
- 15/33 2,215 m x 45 m
- 11/29 1,880 m x 45 m
Annual passengers: 2,500,000 (2003)
Monthly flight operations: 5500
Monthly cargo tonnage: 2000 t
Distance to downtown Curitiba: 18 km

[edit] Airlines

TAM (Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campinas, Florianopolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, Londrina, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos)
Varig (São Paulo-Congonhas)
Gol (Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Foz do Iguaçu, Londrina, Maringá, Asuncion, Rio de Janeiro, Florianópolis, Santa Cruz de la Sierra)