La Aurora International Airport

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La Aurora International Airport
Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora
IATA: GUA – ICAO: MGGT
Summary
Airport type Joint
Owner Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Infraestructura y Vivienda
Operator Dirección General de Aeronautica Civil
Serves Guatemala City
Location Guatemala City, Guatemala
Elevation AMSL 1,509 m / 4,952 ft
Coordinates 14°34′59.78″N, 90°31′38.91″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 3,000 9,800 Asphalt
Currently under renovations

La Aurora International Airport (IATA: GUA, ICAO: MGGT) serves Guatemala City, Guatemala and is located 6km south of Guatemala City's centre. It is administered by the Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil.

La Aurora Airport is going through massive modernization and expansion works. The airport will be able to accept a greater number of flights and larger aircraft. It will provide high standard installations to the traveller. The old terminal has been renovated in accordance with its original design. It has been partly demolished and is now being expanded by a new glass-designed concourse in the north, able to attend up to twenty-two aircraft. The greater part of the project has been completed in December 2007, and all airlines currently operate from the newly built northern concourse. The removal of the former gates 1-7 will make room for the central concourse for widebody aircraft.

On June 2007 the airport was certified as Category I by the FAA.[1]

Contents

[edit] Infrastructure and News

La Aurora is being renovated, along with other airports in the country, such as Mundo Maya International Airport, Quetzaltenango Airport, Puerto Barrios Airport, and San José Airport.

Seven new gates were opened in July 2007 equipped with jetway bridges and modern installations, also a new parking garage was opened which is capable of handling about 500 vehicles. The new counters were also finished. Eleven more gates were opened in December 2007. The airport will have two concourses: the northern concourse with 12 gates and the central concourse used for larger aircraft with four gates or six gates for small planes.

Grupo Taca will also create a hub at GUA in 2008 and will begin flying to cities in South America like: Bogota, Caracas, Quito, Lima and Panama.[2] Within Central and North America they will expand their daily flights as well.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Terminal 1 (North Terminal)

[edit] Terminal 2 (Central Terminal)

(UNDER CONSTRUCTION, NOT AIRCRAFT GATE USAGE)

[edit] Private Hangars

[edit] New airlines and new routes

  • American Airlines will add a third daily flight to Miami on July 2, 2008.
  • Copa Airlines announced two more routes to Panama, increasing their flights from 35 to 49 weekly flights. Copa is also waiting for the approval to open a Presidents Club.
  • Grupo TACA announced their new flight to Lima, Peru three times a week starting July 01, 2008 as well as future expansions throughout the year.

[edit] Cargo airlines


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Trasnportes Aereos Guatemaltecos

[edit] External links