Salvador Bahia Airport
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Salvador–Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport Template:Airport codes, formerly called Dois de Julho International Airport and known by the trade name Salvador Bahia Airport, is the airport serving Salvador, Brazil. Since 16 June 1998, by Federal Law, the airport is named after Luís Eduardo Maron Magalhães (1955–1998), an influential politician of the state of Bahia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
It is operated by Vinci SA.
Some of its facilities are shared with the Salvador Air Force Base of the Brazilian Air Force.
History
The airport, originally called Santo Amaro do Ipitanga Airport, was established in 1925. In 1941 Panair do Brasil participating in the World War II efforts with the support of the American and Brazilian governments completely rebuilt the facility.
On 20 December 1955, the airport had its name changed for the first time: it became known as Dois de Julho International Airport, celebrating Bahia Independence Day. This is still the name by which the population of Salvador da Bahia call the facility. On 16 June 1998 the airport name was again changed to honor Luís Eduardo Maron Magalhães (1955–1998) an influential politician of the state of Bahia. This second change remains however controversial and there have been attempts to revert it.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Since 2017 the concessionary has been using the Trade name Salvador Bahia Airport.
The airport is located in an area of more than 6 million square meters between sand dunes and native vegetation. The lush, bamboo-covered road to the airport has become one of the scenic attractions of Salvador da Bahia.
A brand new passenger terminal was opened in 1998, replacing an original outdated terminal. This new terminal continued to be upgraded and was completed by the end of year 2000. The main terminal, which includes a shopping mall has 69,400 m2, 11 jetways and a capacity to handle 6,000,000 passengers/year. Traffic has been growing at an average of 14% per year.
Responding to critiques to the situation of its airports, on May 18, 2011, Infraero released a list evaluating some of its most important airports according to its saturation levels. According to the list, Salvador da Bahia was considered to be in good situation, operating with less than 70% of its capacity.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Previously operated by Infraero, on 16 March 2017, the concession of the facility was won by Vinci SA, for which it paid R$ 2,35 billions (€ 640 millions). The concession is for a period of 30 years.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The new concessionary then planned to duplicate the passenger terminal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On 26 April 2018, the Aeroporto station on Line 2 of the Salvador subway was opened to the public.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
Cargo
Statistics
Following is the number of passenger, aircraft and cargo movements at the airport, according to Infraero (2007-2017) and Vinci (2018-2024) reports:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Estatísticas"/>
| Year | Passenger | Aircraft | Cargo (t) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7,527,462 Template:Increase 3% | 79,792 Template:Increase 3% | |
| 2023 | 7,279,788 Template:Increase 11% | 77,325 Template:Increase 2% | |
| 2022 | 6,552,356 Template:Increase 21% | 75,886 Template:Increase 12% | |
| 2021 | 5,410,527 Template:Increase 44% | 67,719 Template:Increase 36% | |
| 2020 | 3,769,130 Template:Decrease 50% | 49,640 Template:Decrease 37% | |
| 2019 | 7,537,112 | 78,355 | |
| 2018{{#if:a|a|[1]}} | 3,976,671 | 41,421 | |
| 2017 | 7,735,685 Template:Increase 3% | 76,642 Template:Decrease 4% | 30,055 Template:Steady |
| 2016 | 7,526,358 Template:Decrease 17% | 79,484 Template:Decrease 18% | 29,995 Template:Increase 30% |
| 2015 | 9,047,403 Template:Decrease 1% | 97,139 Template:Decrease 9% | 23,136 Template:Decrease 29% |
| 2014 | 9,152,159 Template:Increase 7% | 107,255 Template:Decrease 1% | 32,754 Template:Increase 33% |
| 2013 | 8,589,663 Template:Decrease 3% | 107,977 Template:Decrease 11% | 24,669 Template:Decrease 18% |
| 2012 | 8,811,540 Template:Increase 5% | 121,587 Template:Decrease 3% | 30,092 Template:Decrease 51% |
| 2011 | 8,394,900 Template:Increase 9% | 125,980 Template:Increase 10% | 61,880 Template:Increase 27% |
| 2010 | 7,696,307 Template:Increase 9% | 114,946 Template:Increase 12% | 48,770 Template:Increase 9% |
| 2009 | 7,052,720 Template:Increase 17% | 102,211 Template:Increase 7% | 44,796 Template:Decrease 23% |
| 2008 | 6,042,307 Template:Increase 2% | 95,804 Template:Increase 5% | 58,148 Template:Decrease 18% |
| 2007 | 5,932,461 | 90,989 | 71,136 |
Note:
{{#if:a|a|[2]}}: 2018 series provided by Vinci is incomplete, lacking data for the months of January until part of June.
Accidents and incidents
Accidents with fatalities
- 21 September 1944: A Panair do Brasil Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar registration PP-PBH crashed shortly after take-off from Salvador da Bahia. All 16 occupants died.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Access
The airport is located Template:Convert north from downtown Salvador da Bahia.
A free shuttle bus runs every 15 minutes from 5am to 1am to Aeroporto station of Salvador subway, which connects to downtown Salvador at Lapa.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See also
References
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External links
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