BRASILIA AIRPORT ASSISTANCE

History Brasilia International Airport

Brasília was only a project when in 1956 President Juscelino Kubitschek landed for the first time in the Central Plateau.

Vera Cruz Airport, built in 1955 by the then Deputy-Governor of Goi├ís, Bernardo Say├úo, at the request of the chairman of the location of the New Federal Capital, Marechal Jos├® Pessoa, already existed. On 2 October 1955, the airport received the first crew of workers that would build the new capital. This facility was located where today is the Integrated Bus and Train Terminal of Bras├¡lia. It had a dirt runway of 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) and a passenger terminal in a makeshift, cob-wall shack covered with buriti-leaves. This facility, however, was only temporary.

The relocation to a definitive site had already been identified as a priority and construction works started on 6 November 1956. The works lasted for only over six months and required the clearing of an area of 1,334 million square metres (14,360×106 sq ft), 178,500 square metres (1,921,000 sq ft) of earthwork, base-stabilized 40,900 square metres (440,000 sq ft), covering 73,500 square metres (791,000 sq ft), topographical services, positioning and leveling. The runway was designed to have a length of 3,300 metres (10,800 ft) but initially it had only 324 metres (1,063 ft), and was 45 metres (148 ft) wide. The passenger terminal was built of wood. On 2 April 1957, the presidential aircraft landed for the first time at the site and the official inauguration took place on 3 May 1957. That year, on the same location the Brasília Air Force Base was also commissioned.

In 1965 Oscar Niemeyer proposed a visionary project for Bras├¡lia Airport to replace the wooden terminal, circular, with similarity outside pillars of Alvorada Palace and subway tunnels to satelite Apron.[8] However, he lost the concession and due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d'├®tat, the military-government chose to build the project of T├®rcio Fontana Pacheco, an architect of the Brazilian Air Force Ministry. The airport is thus one of the few important buildings in Bras├¡lia that is not related to Niemeyer. This building was opened in 1971.

In 1990 Bras├¡lia International Airport underwent its first major renovation and began to gain its present form with a central body and two satellites initially planned, but only one concluded, the west wing. Since 1990 it has been under renovation and expansions, constructed by Camargo C├┤rrea, following an architectural concept of the architect S├®rgio Roberto Parada, with conclusion between 2000 until 2004. The first phase included the construction of an access-viaduct to the passenger terminal and metal cover inaugurated in 1992 and the first circular satellite, inaugurated in 1994, in which its form resembles an ovni disc. In the second phase, the main body of the passenger terminal was refitted to include a shopping-mall and the satellite received nine jetways. In 2005, a second runway was opened.

Transport Brasilia International Airport

At Brasilia Airport passengers can transfer to the city centre by the following means of transportation:

• Bus: The Executive Coach is a good option to transfer to downtown safe and sound.
• Taxi: Transfer in just 20 minutes to Brasilia city centre by taxi.
• Metro: Even Brasilia Airport is not directly connected to the metro, passengers can easily get there by bus.
• Car Rental: Car rental services are available at Brasilia Airport. Rent a car through our search engine, itÔÇÖs easy and fast to use!

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