The most famous airport in Brazil is none other than Goiania Airport. Another name of this airport is Santa Genoveva airport. It is one of the oldest airports in the history of Brazil. The operations of this airport were started in the year 1955. The operations of this airport have been taken by Infraero in the year 1974.
The capability of its terminal is to handle 600,000 passengers at a time. But due to increase in passengers from last few years, this airport is handling the passengers beyond its actual capacity. The tax on petrol prices has been reduced from 15% to 3% to encourage the aviation and tourism in the city. Due to decrease in tax, many tourists prefer to hire a car to visit the whole city.
The consumption of fuel would be according to your choice in a rented car. While taxi and bus drivers never reduce their fares by taking an advantage of increased fares. The aircraft operation becomes more efficient and the people have started to travel more in planes due to this vast reduction in taxes. This action has also increased the growth of other businesses. Car hire services owners, taxi drivers and buses owners are taking full advantage for this reduction.
The new terminal of Goiania airport has restaurants, stores, 8 jetways and 32 check-in counters. Many other operations are underdevelopment and would be completed in the year 2014. The airport is 8 km away from Goiania city. The airport has one accident and two incidents in its history. These were happened in the years 1952, 1975 and 1988. After these dates, not any such incident happened in the recent history of Brazil. One accident was a massive bomb explosion due to which every member inside the plane died. It was a very tragic situation that happened with the people of Brazil.
Flights of TAM airlines, SETE Linhas Aereas, Passaredo, Linhaas Areas, Gol airlines and Azul Brazilian Airlines arrive and depart daily from this airport. These airlines are the oldest airlines of Brazil. Their engines, operations and fixings are credible due to which no one has faced this type of situation again. The new terminal for the passengers is under development that would be easy to handle a large number of passengers at a time. The extended area of Goiania airport would be definitely helpful for every passenger either they are native or non-native.
