Brazil finally opens its greenfield bizav airport

摘要

Sao Paulo Catarina Aeroporto Executivo, Brazil's first greenfield business aviation airport, opened on December 16 after six years of moving mountains—both literally and figuratively—to create an 8,100-foot/2,470-meter runway. That's long enough to allow nearly all business jet models to take off with a full load of fuel for intercontinental flights. Converting 1,700 acres of tree farm to an airport with 232,500 sq ft/21,600 sq m of ramp space and capable of handling 200,000 operations per year, required moving more earth than the Itaipu Dam project to level hills and span the gaps between them, not to mention an investment of more than $147.7 million during a deep recession in Brazil.