Galeao International Airport

Rio de Janeiro/Galeão–Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport, popularly known by its original name Galeão International Airport, is the main airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is named after Praia do Galeão (Galleon Beach), located in front of the original passenger terminal (the present passenger terminal of the Brazilian Air Force) and where in 1663 the galleon Padre Eterno was built; and since January 5, 1999 also after the Brazilian musician Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim. Galeão Airport is explicitly mentioned in his composition "Samba do avião." Operated by Infraero, it is the largest airport site in Brazil. In 2012 the airport was ranked 2nd in terms of transported passengers, and 4th in terms of aircraft operations and cargo handled in Brazil, placing it amongst the busiest airports in the country.

Location: Ilha do Governador - Rio de Janeiro
URL: http://www.infraero.com.br/


Airlines and destinations
Airlines Destinations Concourse
Aerolineas Argentinas Buenos Aires-Aeroparque, Puerto Iguazu 1C
Aerolineas Argentinas operated by Austral Lineas Aereas Buenos Aires-Aeroparque, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza 1C
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 1C
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino 1C
American Airlines Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, New York-JFK 2B
Avianca Bogota 1C
Avianca Brazil Brasilia, Florianopolis, Fortaleza, Maceio, Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador da Bahia, Sao Paulo-Guarulhos 1C
Avianca Peru Lima 1C
Azul Brazilian Airlines Belo Horizonte-Confins, Campinas-Viracopos, Cuiaba, Fortaleza, Navegantes, Porto Alegre, Porto Velho, Recife, Uberlandia 1B
Azul Brazilian Airlines operated by TRIP Linhas Aereas Campinas-Viracopos, Cuiaba 1B
British Airways London-Heathrow 1C
Condor Seasonal: Frankfurt 1C
Copa Airlines Panama City 1C
Delta Air Lines Atlanta 2B
Emirates Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Dubai 2C
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa , Lome 2C
Gol Airlines Aracaju, Belem-Val de Cans, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasilia, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campinas-Viracopos, Cordoba, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Florianopolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguacu, Goiania, Joao Pessoa, Juazeiro do Norte, Londrina, Macapa, Maceio, Manaus, Miami, Natal, Navegantes, Petrolina, Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador da Bahia, Santo Domingo, Sao Luis, Sao Paulo-Congonhas, Sao Paulo-Guarulhos, Vitoria 1B
Gol Airlines operated by Varig Aruba, Caracas, Punta Cana, Sao Paulo-Guarulhos 1B
Iberia Madrid 1C
KLM Amsterdam 1C
LAN Airlines Santiago de Chile 2D
Lufthansa Frankfurt 2C
Passaredo Linhas Aereas Cuiaba, Goiania, Ribeirao Preto, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Uberlandia 1C
TAAG Angola Airlines Luanda 2B
TAM Airlines Belem-Val de Cans, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasilia, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Campinas-Viracopos, Caracas, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Florianopolis, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguacu, Frankfurt , Joao Pessoa, London-Heathrow, Maceio, Manaus, Miami, Montevideo, Natal, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle , Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador da Bahia, Santarem, Santiago de Chile, Sao Luis, Sao Paulo-Congonhas, Sao Paulo-Guarulhos, Vitoria 2D
TAM Airlines
operated by Pantanal Linhas Aereas		 Sao Paulo-Congonhas 2D
TAP Portugal Lisbon, Porto 2C
United Airlines Houston-Intercontinental, Washington-Dulles 2B
US Airways Charlotte 2C
*Source of information: Wikipedia.