A Study of the Congonhas and Pampulha Airports Airports Located at Urban Areas Fabio Rabbani
Jan 03, 2016
A Study of the Congonhas and Pampulha Airports
Airports Located at Urban Areas
Fabio Rabbani
5 December 2002 16.781 Project
5 December 2002 16.781 Project
-Operating with its annual capacity of 7 million passengers a year completely saturated. Presently operating with 11.5
million/year - Commercial Airliners compose 71% of the traffic, 29% executive flights-Operates with 2 non- independent parallel runways. Only one has ILS.
- No jetways. Use of buses in the Apron Area - Guarulhos is operating under its capacity
Congonhas Characteristics
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Pampulha Characteristics
- Topography is far from ideal and its area is insufficient. No space for taxiways expansion - The terminal is completely inadequate. Small linear shaped - Expected to receive about 3.3 million passengers this year. Capacity of 1 million/year
- High military traffic- Confins Operates at 10% of its capacity
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Multi-airport System Management?
Two major questions:
-Additional Capacity should be located at existing airports or elsewhere? Studies concluded that there would not be enough space
-How traffic will distribute between existing major airport a possible second airport. Usually second airport remains unused for long periods
Intent: To establish a second site as potential major airport; provide insurance to future demand
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Congonhas and Guarulhos Movements
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Congonhas and Guarulhos Passengers
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Pampulha and Confins Movements
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Pampulha and Confins Passengers
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Study made by Brazilian Civil Department of Aviation
- Study made in 1999- Optimistic forecast based on data from 1983 until 1997:
Congonhas2001
Actual2002 2007 2017
Passengers 11.707.169 9.278.317 13.339.382 26.384.177
Movements 261.827 304.234 447.073 838.446
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Pampulha2001
Actual2002 2007 2017
Passengers 2.548.117 1.989.796 2.791.431 4.394.063
Movements 88.967 106.686 146.600 224.652
Study made by Brazilian Civil Department of Aviation
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Proposed Solutions for Congonhas
- Delay due to community requests. Defend Sao Paulo Movement
- No intention to increase number of present movements. Plans to reduce the short haul airports’ movements in 10 – 15%
Discarded:- Expansion of taxiways, including fast exits- Installation of the ILS on the runway 35L, increasing the movement capacity when this runway is in use. (Global influence)
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Final Consensus
- Passenger terminal will be expanded from 37,300 m2 to 12,400 m2 to accommodate growing traffic - Parking garage slots will grow to 939 and parking lots- Capacity will be increased to 2,816 vehicles. - Storage capacity of aircraft fuel tanks will also be significantly increased.
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Congonhas
Hangars
Runway 17L/35R
Hangars
Main Terminal Building
Runway 17R/35L
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Pampulha Expansion Project
Operations will be greatly improved by the following steps:
- expanding the 4,500 m2 passenger terminal to 25,900 m2; - expanding the 38,000 m2 taxiway to 51,000 m2; - addition of six fueling stations; - creation of 324 new slots in the parking garage, and 971 new slots in the parking lot; - construction of 800 m x 18 m taxiway; - construction of a 1,600 m2 domestic cargo terminal.
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Pampulha
Taxiway
Terminal
New CargoTerminal
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Current Actions
- Congonhas already reduced its threshold from 54 to 48 movements per hour at peak hours. The intention is to reduce Pampulha to 34 slots per hour.- As of June 1 of 2002, Infraero lowered its fees at the international airports of Guarulhos (SP), Galeão (RJ) and Confins (MG) - In September, Infraero announced that the major airlines will be obliged to reduce in 10% their scheduled flights in Congonhas, Pampulha and Santos Dumont (RJ)