Structure and Capacity
We can find out closest information on www.aeropuertopalonegro.com The planning of the passenger terminal building is 7000 square meters of construction, took into account the uneven terrain where this arises. This allows passengers arriving Palonegro can be mobilized by first level expeditiously and smoothly. In this first level is the baggage room, which communicates with the car park parking lot. In turn, passengers leaving the city with easy access to the terminal by a wide road that communicates with the dispatch hall airlines. From there down wide stairs to the waiting room with a boarding capacity for 400 people.
The terminal building also had a restaurant, a popular cafe, stores, offices of Civil Aviation and Meteorology and tourism services, Telecom, the National Police, Customs, airport security and aviation fire station.
The Control Tower has a height of 34 meters equivalent to 10 floors, where you can see widely the length of the track in its entirety and platforms for parking of passenger and cargo aircraft.
Furthermore, additional works including drainage systems, acquisition and operation of track lighting systems, control lights, rotating beacon, navigation aids visual and nonvisual water supply network, electricity and telephone equipment. The Colombian company Terpel aviation fuel, was responsible for building and operating storage tanks and supply facilities.
A 4 km road linking the terminal with the main road from Bucaramanga to Barrancabermeja. The total cost Palonegro International Airport was $ 230 million pesos in 1974.
Palonegro The airport security was under discussion several times, it was precisely from this airport that the flight originated kidnapped on Fokker F-50 Avianca by armed personnel in 1999 and then another plane of Aerotaca B1900 in 2000 on a flight also originated in the air terminal.
For the year 2007 was ranked among the seven airports in Colombia, and for this reason the Civil Aviation decided to invest in expanding and building a new boarding area national and international.
It is now carried out between 70 and 80 daily flights scheduled airlines in five domestic destinations: ADA, Avianca, Copa Airlines Colombia, EasyFly, Aires and Satena. A few months ago began international flights Palonegro joining with the city of Panama by AeroRepublica. This position Palonegro eighth in passenger traffic in the country.
The National Government through its Ministry of Transport and continuing with the policy of granting airports, airport included in the so-called Group Palonegro Northeast. The airport group is also composed of the airports in Cúcuta, Barrancabermeja, Valledupar, Santa Marta and Riohacha. It is hoped that the award process is completed within two years in 2011 for a private operator to invest in the necessary work to adapt the terminal to improve the existing traffic and cargo handling facilities, which eventually will be needed to meet growth in this activity when they sign the FTA with the United States.
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