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*[[Avior Airlines]] (Acarigua, Barcelona, Barinas, Barquisimeto, Canaima, Carúpano, Coro, Cumaná, El Vigía, Maracaibo, Maracay, Mérida, Porlamar, Puerto Ordaz, San Tomé, Valencia, Valera) |
*[[Avior Airlines]] (Acarigua, Barcelona, Barinas, Barquisimeto, Canaima, Carúpano, Coro, Cumaná, El Vigía, Maracaibo, Maracay, Mérida, Porlamar, Puerto Ordaz, San Tomé, Valencia, Valera) |
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*[[Conviasa]] (Maracaibo, Porlamar) |
*[[Conviasa]] (Barinas, Canaima, Ciudad Bolívar, Maracaibo, Maturín, Porlamar, Puerto Ayacucho, Puerto Ordaz, El Vigía) |
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*[[LASER (airline)|Laser]] (Porlamar) |
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*[[Rutaca]] (Ciudad Bolívar, Porlamar, Puerto Ordaz, San Antonio del Táchira) |
*[[Rutaca]] (Ciudad Bolívar, Porlamar, Puerto Ordaz, San Antonio del Táchira) |
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*[[Santa Barbara Airlines]] (Barquisimeto, Cumaná, Las Piedras, Maracaibo, Mérida, San Antonio del Táchira, Santa Bárbara del Zulia, Valencia) |
*[[Santa Barbara Airlines]] (Barquisimeto, Cumaná, Las Piedras, Maracaibo, Mérida, San Antonio del Táchira, Santa Bárbara del Zulia, Valencia) |
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===Auxiliary Terminal=== |
===Auxiliary Terminal=== |
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*[[Aero Ejecutivos]] (Canaima, El Yavi, Los Roques) |
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Revision as of 03:25, 30 July 2006
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Maiquetia International Airport (IATA: CCS, ICAO: SVMI), officially known as Simon Bolivar International Airport, Maiquetia (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetia Simón Bolívar), is located in Maiquetía, Venezuela, near Caracas.
Simply called 'Maiquetia' by the local population, this is the most important airport of the twelve international airports in Venezuela. The Simon Bolivar Airport is the main hub for Aeropostal. Since 1960, it had been the main hub for VIASA, Venezuela's former flag carrier that went into bankruptcy in 1997.
It handles flights to many important cities in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe.
Since 2000, the Simon Bolivar Airport has been undergoing major changes in order to meet international standards and to improve passenger traffic, security, immigration areas and customs areas. Security measures have become top priority since the 9/11 events, and now departure areas and arrival areas are completely split into the lower and upper levels of the airport. An on-site hotel is currently being built and is expected to open by the end of 2007.
Statistics
As of 2005:
- Area: 882 ha.
- Terminals: 3 (International, Domestic and Auxiliary)
- Parking lots: 3
- Parking lots capacity: 4,560
- Gates
- International terminal: 14
- Domestic terminal: 11
- Remote gates:
- International terminal: 8
- Domestic terminal: 6
- Yearly mean temperature: 28 °C (82.4 °F)
- Visibility: 10 km. (90% of the year)
- Wind conditions: calm (year long)
Auxiliary terminal handles cargo flights, charter flights and private aircraft.
Passenger Traffic
| Terminal | Traffic |
|---|---|
| Domestic | 3,844,204 |
| International | 3,235,430 |
Traffic movement
| Terminal | Landing | Take off |
|---|---|---|
| Domestic | 49,992 | 50,662 |
| International | 21,316 | 21,472 |
Cargo traffic
| Unloaded freight | Loaded freight |
|---|---|
| 40,703,534 | 8,781,941 |
Unit: metric tonnes
Airlines and Terminals
International Terminal
- Aerolíneas Argentinas (Buenos Aires-Ezeiza)
- Aeropostal (Aruba, Bogotá, Curaçao, Guayaquil, Havana, Lima, Medellin, Miami, Port-of-Spain, Puerto Plata, Quito, Santo Domingo, Varadero, coming soon: Atlanta, GA and Orlando, FL)
- Air Canada (Toronto)
- Air Europa (Madrid)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, New York-JFK, San Juan)
- Aserca Airlines (Punta Cana, Santo Domingo)
- Avianca (Bogotá)
- Avior Airlines (Aruba, Curaçao, Martinique, Port of Spain)
- BWIA (Port of Spain)
- Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)
- Conviasa (Bogotá, Madrid, Port of Spain)
- Copa Airlines (Panama City)
- Cubana de Aviación (Havana)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- Lacsa (Mexico City, San José)
- LAN Airlines (Miami, Santiago de Chile)
- LAN Peru (Lima)
- Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (Santa Cruz de la Sierra)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Mexicana (Mexico City)
- Santa Barbara Airlines (Aruba, Curaçao, Guayaquil, Madrid, Miami, Quito, Tenerife-Tenerife North)
- TACA Peru (Lima)
- TAP Portugal (Funchal, Lisbon, Porto)
- Varig (Aruba, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos)
Domestic Terminal
- Aeropostal (Barcelona, Barquisimeto, Ciudad Bolívar, Las Piedras, Maracaibo, Maturín, Porlamar, Puerto Ordaz, San Antonio del Táchira, San Tomé, Santo Domingo del Táchira, Valencia)
- Aserca Airlines (Barcelona, Barquisimeto, Maracaibo, Maturín, Porlamar, Puerto Ordaz, San Antonio del Táchira, Santo Domingo del Táchira, Valencia)
- Avensa (Mérida)
- Avior Airlines (Acarigua, Barcelona, Barinas, Barquisimeto, Canaima, Carúpano, Coro, Cumaná, El Vigía, Maracaibo, Maracay, Mérida, Porlamar, Puerto Ordaz, San Tomé, Valencia, Valera)
- Conviasa (Barinas, Canaima, Ciudad Bolívar, Maracaibo, Maturín, Porlamar, Puerto Ayacucho, Puerto Ordaz, El Vigía)
- Laser (Porlamar)
- Rutaca (Ciudad Bolívar, Porlamar, Puerto Ordaz, San Antonio del Táchira)
- Santa Barbara Airlines (Barquisimeto, Cumaná, Las Piedras, Maracaibo, Mérida, San Antonio del Táchira, Santa Bárbara del Zulia, Valencia)
Auxiliary Terminal
- Aero Ejecutivos (Canaima, El Yavi, Los Roques)
- Avior Airlines (Los Roques)
- Aerotuy (Los Roques)
- Sol America (Aruba, Curaçao, Las Piedras, Los Roques, Valencia)
Notes
- On January 5th 2006, Venezuelan authorities closed the main access road between Caracas and Maiquetia-Simon Bolivar International Airport due to a bridge failure (which entirely collapsed on March 19th). Officials are working on a brand-new bridge to fully reestablish the road connection and plan to have it constructed by the second half of 2007. In the meantime, a 1.5-mile two-lane road has been paved to go around the fallen structure. Because of the aforesaid, travel time by car is increased up to 90 minutes during rush hour.
- Since February 23th 2006, Venezuelan civil aviation authorities had been in talks with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to settle a dispute with the US over limitations for Venezuelan carriers, which were imposed in 1995. Consequently, local carriers lost 90 percent of the US-Venezuela market to their US competitors, namely American Airlines, Continental, and Delta. After a FAA team visited Venezuela to examine Venezuelan airlines' planes and procedures, the US Federal Aviation Administration assessed Venezuela on April 21st 2006 as being in compliance with ICAO international aviation safety standards.