Salgado Filho International Airport (Porto Alegre)

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Salgado Filho International Airport, Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil.

IATA: POA
ICAO: SBPA
Airport type: Public
Operator: Infraero
Serves: Porto Alegre
Elevation AMSL: 11 ft (3 m)
Coordinates: 29°59′40″S, 51°10′17″W

Runways
Direction - Length - Surface
11/29 - 7,481ft - 2,280m - Asphalt

Companies that operates regularly:
* Aerolineas Argentinas (Buenos Aires/Ezeiza - ARG, Montevideu - URU)
* BRA Transportes Aéreos (Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Ji-Paraná, Rio de Janeiro/Galeão, San Carlos de Bariloche - ARG, São Paulo/Congonhas, São Paulo/Guarulhos)
* GOL Linhas Aéreas (Brasília, Buenos Aires/Ezeiza - ARG, Campinas, Córdobra - ARG, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Imperatriz, Londrina, Montevideu - URU, Recife, Rio de Janeiro/Galeão, Rio de Janeiro/Santos Dumont, Rosario - ARG, Salvador, Santiago - CHI, São Luís, São Paulo/Congonhas, São Paulo/Guarulhos)
* NHT Linhas Aéreas (Caxias do Sul, Curitiba, Erechim, Navegantes, Passo Fundo, Pelotas, Rio Grande, Santa Maria, Santa Rosa, Santana do Livramento, Santo Ângelo, Uruguaiana)
* OceanAir (Caldas Novas, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Ji-Paraná, Rio de Janeiro/Galeão, São Paulo/Congonhas, São Paulo/Guarulhos, Vilhena)
* TAM (Belém, Belo Horizonte/Confins, Brasília, Buenos Aires - ARG, Campinas, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Recife, Rio de Janeiro/Galeão, Salvador, São Luís, São Paulo/Congonhas, São Paulo/Guarulhos)
* UAir (Montevideu - URU)
* VARIG (São Paulo/Congonhas)
* WebJet Linhas Aéreas (Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro/Galeão, Salvador)


With 37.6 thousand square meters of constructed area and four levels, the passenger terminal at Porto Alegre International Airport can receive 28 large airplanes simultaneously.

The terminal has 32 check-in counters, ten boarding bridges, nine elevators and ten escalators. It has a totally automated aircraft movement control center and the main spaces are air conditioned.

The apron, surfaced with prestressed concrete, can serve jumbo jets like the Boeing 747-400. The garage structure has eight levels, 44 thousand square meters and 1,440 parking spaces.

Another terminal, with 15 thousand square meters and capacity for 1.5 million passengers a year, serves general, executive and third-tier aviation (conventional piston-engine and turboprop planes).

Porto Alegre Airport was the first one administered by Infraero to have integrated check-in. This service offers flexibility in use of terminal facilities and installations, enabling carriers to access their own data centers via shared-use computers from any check-in counter position. This makes it much easier to allocate counter space according to demand fluctuations, making for less idle space.

The Aeroshopping area – a center for commerce and leisure – operates 24 hours a day with shops, services, a food court, along with a triplex cinema, the first to be established at a Brazilian airport.

Salgado Filho International Airport also has an air cargo terminal, built in 1974, with 9,500 thousand square meters of area and capacity to handle 1,500 tons of export cargo and 900 tons of imports each month.

The average daily movement (arrivals and departures) is 174 aircraft, flying scheduled routes connecting Porto Alegre directly or indirectly to all the country’s other major cities, as well as smaller cities in the interior of the states of the South Region and São Paulo. There are also international flights with direct connections to cities of the Southern Cone.