The New Lima Airport is coming

Perú prepares for the definitive start of constructionón of the New Lima Airport, which to solveá the growing congestion problemsón that one of the main terminals in the regionón, facing a growing market, has and it doesn't seemíto have a solutionón.

For him 2023 se espera la inaugurationón of the second track and for the 2024, the new and expected terminal. The constructionón of both finally begins in April 2020.

History

Peru's main airportú was officially inaugurated on 30 from December to 1965, as a replacement for the country's until then first commercial airportís, Clouds. With 52 añthose of history, The terminal has gone through great transformations to now be considered one of the best in the region.ón.

Limatambo startó operations 3 November 1935 as the first commercial terminalís, taking an important step for aviationón Peruvian, leaving behindás the concept of airfieldón and minor tracks that at that time were in various areas of the city. With the passing of theños and the growth of demand and alsoésize nño of aircraft the need to replace this new terminal appeared rábe in the sights of the authorities.

For 1948, Clouds a 6 kilómeters of Lima, inauguratedó a new terminal and the land was expanded, but the population increase and little control in constructionón of new buildings, they ended up blocking any possibility of a better terminal and runway, so I closedó to make way for the current Jorge Chátime in search of bringing Peru closerú to new aeron needsáutics of thoseños.

The Jorge Ch International Airportáturn named after the aviation pioneeróPeruvian and global, having been the first man to cross the Alps with a monoplane in 1910. Your planningón and constructionón they took 5 años and in his élittle was the airport mámodern s of the región and the World, outstanding for its spaces and modern architecture of its terminal, which happenedó no big changes for meás de 30 años. By then the airport hadíto the following charactersístatic:

• Áconstruction areaón of 2’500,000 m2.
• landing strip 3,507.50 meters long by 45 Wide.
• 5,597 meters of taxiways.

For the beginning of the century 21, the terminal reachedó a má1st operational and was awarded to LAP (Lima Airport Partners), mainly constituted by Fraport AG, renowned German groupán administration expertsón airport and related businesses, which was commissioned to remodel and expand the terminal, the one in the 2005 It was inaugurated in its first stage. The completely remodeled terminal hasía 18 Boarding gates, 7 boarding sleeves, was builtó a shopping center and 2 añundress themés of inaugurationó the first hotel a few meters from the terminal.

Before

Now

For him 2009 the terminal passedó for a second remodelón due to increasing demand. Going from 7 sleeves a 19, with what áPassenger boarding area doubledó, new business premises were built, they were put into operation 5 luggage bands and activated 16 immigration control points for departures and 22 for arrivals.

Before

Now

With the passing of theños, se triplicó the áaircraft parking area, new VIP rooms were built, spa and others. For February 2012 is the termó the recapping of the track, which to extendá life úuseful of the same 10 añm axisás, having been renewed 10 centímeters of it.

Everything designed for a tripáhigher than the 10 million passengers per year, núhighly outclassed grouper in the úlast 5 años.

Present

Lima Airport is considered one of máimportant s of the regionón and with greater growth, having mobilized during the 2016 más de 19 million passengers of which 10 millions were on sun flightséstatic and 9 millions in international flights, having grown almost 2 million passengers comparedón with him 2015. For him 2017 is expected to pass the barrier of 20 million passengers.

This great growth of Jorge Cháturn, that serves the City of Lima, located in the Constitutional Province of Callao, is due to the great development and promotionón turnísticism that Peru has hadú, where Lima is your main gateway. Spaghettién, the development of the LATAM Airlines and Avianca HUBs have allowed Lima to consolidate its growth and become an important connection center for those who travel from the south of the continent.

In Lima they currently operate 38 aerolínational and international cargo and passenger lines, which cover at least 50 destinations in Américh and Europe.

Aerolípassenger lines

• Aerolíneas Argentinas
• Aeroméxico
• Air Canada Rouge
• Air Europa
• Air France
• American Airlines
• Avianca
• Avior Airlines
• British Airways
• Copa Airlines
• Delta Air Lines
• Iberia
• Interjet
• JetBlue Airways
• KLM
• LATAM Airlines
• Latin American Wings
• Peruvian Airlines
• Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas
• Sky Airline
• Spirit Airlines
• Star Perú
• United Airlines
• Viva Air Peru
• Long live Colombia

Aerolícargo girls

• Atlas Air
• Avianca Cargo
• Centurion Air Cargo
• KF Cargo
• Korean Air Cargo
• LATAM Cargo
• Lufthansa Cargo
• KLM Cargo
• Qatar Airways Cargo
• Sky Lease Cargo
• SkyBus Cargo
• UPS Airlines

Within this growth, LAP – Lima Airport Partners, airport concessionaire has made some changes and improvements in the terminal, to somehow support the growth and provide better comforts to the passengers who every dayíto feel más «tight» so beíto the imminent collapse of the terminal and the operations atéreas. Within these improvements, The airport has improved in its áreas de duty free, international arrivals area, check-in area and baggage claim, like theí spaghettiéI don't know betteró free WiFi service, passing east of 10 free minutes to 30 total and it was believedó the first official bus transportation service between the Miraflores neighborhood, Hotels area and the Airport with the Lima Airport Express service. All these improvements have allowed the terminal to gain several awards that recognize their services to passengers by Skytrax, World Travel Awards, Moodle Report y Priority Pass.

Other improvements in áair areaáutica have been made, como la installationóILS CATIIIB system number, runway center lights, RNAV procedures and others.

Facing the imminent collapse, where much of the díYou can see long queues of más de 20 planes to take off and others 10 for landing, the dealership, after meás de 13 añdelays in the granting of nearby landñto the current terminal and runway by the Government, has already announced that the start of work on the New Lima Airport will take placeá between the end of 2017 and beginnings of 2018, with which the great and necessary project of comprehensive improvements will take placeán out and offerán a solutionón for this congested airport.

The New Lima Airport

Although it is builtá on the surrounding landños al actual terminal, the new airport conceptualized to be the solutionódefinitive solution to the growing saturation problemsón of Lima and with a projectionón to meet the growth needs of the Airport for más de 30 million passengers and a considerable increase in cargo capacity isá soon to see the light.

The improvement or más well new terminal and runway, to allowán that the AIJCh supports its growth and positionón like Hub, powered by his aerolínational lines as well asén because of his positionón geográprivileged location in the middle of South Americaérica.

Official video, Así to beá the New Lima Airport:

The project in tégeneral terms and mainly as a cover letterón, contemplate the constructionón of a new large central passenger terminal for international flights and a second runway, like theí spaghettiéin the remodelingótotal and extensionón of the úonly current terminal that will workías a national terminal.

The new Lima Airport to be builtá next to the current terminal and runway, in its first stage it contemplates the following:

• new runway.
• new passenger terminal.
• new control tower.
• New log zoneístic.
• new warehouse area.
• Hotel 5 stars.
• Convention Center
• new shopping area.

Located west of the current terminal and runway, the new Lima airport will be builtá in a áevil of 7 million square meters, what a space implies 3 times máIt's bigger than the current one, what to allowá a large terminal and second runway.

Although the charactersífinal statics of the new runway and passengersún are in the stage ofálysis, diseñor and study, The New Lima Airport has the great potential to become the más largest of the regionón, surpassing even big ones like Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotaá, Panamá and the new Santiago airport.

The first designsñConceptual concepts have been revealed, outside and inside the terminal will be seenías follows:

Important data

• LAP performá an inverseóapproximate number of US$ 1,500 million in the expansion projectón.
• To the date, approximately US$ has already been invested 40 million in this project.
• The new airport is financed with funds 100% private and without state co-financing.
• The New Jorge Ch International Airportátime occupyá a áevil of 9 million m2.
• I know how to countá with a new runway and a new passenger terminal.
• The New Jorge Chátime allowá meet más de 30 million passengers.

About Fragport

It is among the main companiesñíworld's ace in the global airport business – offers
a full range of integrated management servicesón of the airport and has subsidiaries and investments on three continents (Europe, Asia and Sudanérica).

• in the exercise 2016, the Fraport Group generatesó sales by 2,59 billón € and a profit of about 400 millions of €.
• El próximo añFraport AG is establishedá in Brazil to expand its portfolio of airports in Américh from the South, with the concessions of the airports of Fortaleza and Porto Alegre