The Viracopos International Airport, localized in city's periphery, connects Campinas with many others Brazilian cities and with the world.

Viracopos – Campinas International Airport is the international airport serving Campinas, Brazil.

On 6 January 1987, the airport name was officially normalized to its present form, although its former name Viracopos International Airport is still popularly used.

Furthermore, Viracopos served ( and still serves ) as an alternate airport for Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport and São Paulo airports particularly because it rarely closes due to bad weather conditions ( an average of only 5 days per year ).

The position of international airport of São Paulo was lost in 1985 with the opening of Guarulhos International Airport and Viracopos entered into a decade of stagnation, with all international and most domestic flights transferred to Guarulhos and Congonhas.

On 31 August 2009, Infraero unveiled a R $ 2, 814 million ( US $ 1, 482. 6 million ; € 1, 038. 8 million ) investiment plan to up-grade Viracopos International Airport focusing on the preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics in 2016 which will be held in Brazil, São Paulo ( 99 km away ) being one of the venue cities.

Listed airports include São Paulo / Guarulhos – Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport, Brasília – Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport, Campinas – Viracopos International Airport, and later Belo Horizonte – Tancredo Neves International Airport and Rio de Janeiro – Galeão / Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport.

ACSA operates airports in South Africa ; the Consortium Aeroportos Brasil composed by the Brazilian Triunfo, an Investments and Funds Society ( 45 %) and UTC Engenharia e Participações, an Engineering and Investments Society ( 45 %), and the French Egis Avia ( 10 %) won the concession for Campinas – Viracopos International Airport, to be explored for 30 years.

: Campinas – Viracopos International Airport

Campinas / São Paulo – Viracopos International Airport

* Campinas – Viracopos International Airport

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* International scheduled destinations: México City, Miami, Asunción, Iquitos, San Juan, Lima, Quito, Guayaquil, Caracas, Valencia, Venezuela, Panama City, Panama, San Jose, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo, Santiago de Chile, Viracopos, Manaus and Curitiba.

* Campinas, Viracopos International Airport, Brazil

Its main base is Viracopos International Airport, Campinas.

Its main base is Viracopos International Airport, São Paulo.

* Campinas – Viracopos International Airport

In the 1970s Viracopos became the international airport for São Paulo, because the runway of São Paulo-Congonhas Airport was too short to accommodate intercontinental jet planes.

However, recognizing the strategic importance of Viracopos for the economy, Infraero, the airport administrator in 1995 started to implement a master plan of renovations aiming at the building of a new airport, focusing its efforts on the segment of cargo transportation.

Azul Brazilian Airlines is the biggest operator at Viracopos.

Intercontinental flights required changing planes at Rio de Janeiro-Galeão or were operated at Viracopos airports.

The IATA airport code of Viracopos is VCP and the specific city code of Campinas is CPQ.

The word Viracopos (" flip glasses ") was later used by the priest in sermons, referring to the event.

Soon airlines such as Varig, VASP and Real established services to Viracopos.

In practice, however, the distance of nearly 100 km from Viracopos to São Paulo made it very inconvenient for passengers and airlines.

At that time, Viracopos even appeared on the Guinness Book of Records as the furthest airport from the city it allegedly served.

Being the second busiest cargo airport in Brazil, Viracopos has 77, 000 square meters ( 646, 000 square feet ) of cargo terminals, 1, 700 square meters ( 18, 300 square feet ) for animal cargo, and 1, 480 cubic meters ( 52, 200 square feet ) of refrigerated space.

As a major import / export hub, Viracopos enjoys ' express lanes ' for courier traffic which are exceptionally quick and unbureaucratic by Brazilian standards.

Its local domestic passenger traffic, combined with the intense domestic and international cargo traffic that also serves São Paulo, is large enough to make Viracopos a relatively busy airport.

The number of flights offered has increased dramatically since Azul Brazilian Airlines made Viracopos its main hub.

Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv, a utility outfielder, share an apartment in Jamaica, Long Island, not far from New York International Airport.

From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.

The pilot radioed El Paso International Airport with just that message.

* Ada International Airport or Saipan International Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

11 ( 2008 ) Only Yerevan's Zvartnots International Airport and Gyumri's Shirak Airport are in use for commercial aviation.

The main airport is Pago Pago International Airport.

* 1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport

From the U. S., many airlines now fly to Juan N. Álvarez International Airport year-round.

* 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.

* 1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport ( now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport ).

The nearest airports are Düsseldorf International Airport ( 80 km ), Cologne Bonn Airport ( 90 km ) and Maastricht Aachen Airport ( 40 km ).