Welcome to the Alejandro Velasco Astete and Chinchero International Airports in Cusco, the second airportás important of Perú located at más de 3.000 meters high, It is the gateway to the Inca Empire and the great Inca city of Machu Picchu.
Hereí the flight report flying from Lima to Cusco: www.nlarenas.com/2018/07/volando-a-cusco-desde-quito-via-lima/
Insurance Cusco is one of the main o más attractive tourist destinationsíworldwide, comparable with the same Gal Islandsápaid, and that is why its airport has a notable importance at the aviation level.áutico and turístic. in a recent trip to Peruú, I was able to meet this striking terminal.
Despite this importance and the growing numberúaerosol grouperílines and passengers, Its terminal has not been expanded or remodeled in más de 15 años, what makes it todayíat an outdated airport, at times collapsed and very smallñor for its importance.
Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport of Cusco
Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (THERE IT IS: CUZ, ICAO: SPZO) startó its operations in December 1964 there isá located in the Región and Province of Cusco, Wanchac District – San Sebastianán. This important airport is located just 3.7 kilómeters from the city center, which is considered the gateway to the famous and well-known Inca Empire.
The name of the terminal is inspired by the Peruvian Pilot Alejandro Velasco Astete, who was the first person to cross the Andes on a flight from Lima to Cusco in theñO 1925. Astete dieíto that same oneñor during a presentationón in the city of Puno, when you lose control of your aircraft.
The for now úCusco's only airport has an asphalt runway of 3,400 meters long by 45 Wide, with the characterístatic that can be done úrunway landings only 28 (which has PAPI lights) and takeoffs on the opposite runway 10.
Its passenger terminal has two floors and has 20 Aerol check-up countersílines and a Control Tower 5 floors with 12.50 meters high from where operations are verified to maintain security levels in an airport that is considered one of the más complex and difícities of the world, mainly by height and runway factors.
This airport does not operate 24 hours a dayía, úonly of 6 am a 20 pm, given that mainly its approximations are of carávisual character and non-precision VORón. RNAV operations began not long ago and there is the feasibility of night operations with GPS satellite procedures., what to allowíto an increase in operations and tourist arrivals, but this is locatedún in study.
It has a taxiway towards the north head 10 and a pavement platform with the capacity to receive up to 10 aircraft using sleeves and remotes, with the avión mámaximum allowed being the Boeing 757.
further, restaurants, duty free, stores, ATMsáticos and various transportation options and tourist offersíStatics are located in various areas of the terminal.
Stadiumísticas Cusco Airport
Currently, Cusco Airport is the one with the highest flow of passengers in the south of Peruú con más de 3 millions of users per yearñor and with an average of más de 120 daily operations.
During theñO 2017, they passed through this airport 3.290.452 passengers on sun flightséstics from mainly the Lima airports, Trujillo, Puerto Maldonado, Juliaca and Arequipa. Regarding the international movement, 89.166 passengers they arrived and left towards the úonly international destination that operatesó during that toñO, Peace.
As far as 2018 with data up to May, they are already 1.361.824 passengers who have passed through Cusco, which represents a growth of 124.593 users in comparisonón with him 2017. Equally, until May 2018, in international transport, Cusco has mobilized 46.593 passengers, with a growth of 16.788 users más in comparisonón al 2017, thanks to the new direct routes to Santiago de Chile and Bogotáá.
with projections, Cusco Airport is expected to exceed the 3 million and a half passengers worldwide 2018.
Aerolídenies, flights and itinerary
Son 6 the aerosolsíairlines that fly daily to Cusco on national and international flights, más one that operates úonly for seasons or seasonal as it is known.
These aerosolídenies, those that together add up to más de 120 daily flights fly to the following destinations:
- LATAM Perú: Arequipa, Pisco, Trujillo, Lima, Iquitos, Puerto Maldonado, Juliaca / Santiago de Chile
- Avianca Perú: Arequipa, Lima, Puerto Maldonado, Juliaca / Bogotaá, Peace (próximly)
- Peruvian Airlines: Arequipa, Lima
- Star Perú: Lima, Puerto Maldonado
- LC Perú: Lima
- Viva Air Perú: Lima
- Amazon: Peace – seasonal
- Viva Air Colombia: Bogotaá (próximly)
t dataécynical
| Cuzco International Airport (THERE IT IS: CUZ, ICAO:SPZO) | |
| Elevationón | 3.309 m.s.n.m |
| national passengers 2017 | 3.290.452 |
| international passengers 2017 | 89.166 |
| mobilized cargo | 1.858.244 kilos |
| Operations toéreas 2017 | 35,204 |
| daily operations | 120+ |
| track length | 3.400 meters x 45 meters |
| Aerolínational lines | 6 |
| Aerolíinternational lines | 2 since the end of 2018 |
Chinchero International Airport
There are plans for the improvement of Cusco and even, a new airport that will be calledía “Chinchero International Airport”, work to demandía más US$658 million investmentón, but that alsoén is detained for apparent corruption problemsón, overpricing and even a negative feasibility tétechnique, since this land is located más higher than Cusco itself.
The District of Chinchero is located at 45 minutes north of Cusco, some 15 kilómeters, what alsoén requireá of improvement of the víbetween both cities and a time, más additional cost, for the tourists, since the hotel infrastructure of this city is limited and does not workías an alternative tourist cityística of Cusco.
The new airport in Chinchero debíto be completed and operational in the añO 2020, but all the obstacles mentioned and since it is found 400 metros más high that the current terminal ended up truncating this plan, at least for now, since the authorities maintain the construction planón.
The new terminal and airport tellán with a track 4.000 meters long with numberingón 16 and 34 of asphalt with a capacity to attend to 5 million passengers per yearñO, and with the projectionóextension noón until the 8 million annually. The terminal will haveá about 40.000 thousand square meters and dutyíto allow an increase in direct international flights.
For August of this 2018 the resumption of construction works is expectedón with the lifting of the perimeter fence of the new airport, process to beá endorsed by the ICAO for this stage and alsoén the start of earthworks to flatten and level the land in October.
Counting from August of this toñO, The estimated time for the completion of the works will beíand the 4 a 5 añthe monún the Ministry of Transportation of Peruú.
Track máChinchero's discharge will imposeá a challengeíor to the airídenies, since an operationón in heat and height, limits the weight of aircraft and autonomyía, óbe direct destinations that can be reached from that terminal, What is the objective of construction?ón, reduce the need to land in Lima as a stopover, almost mandatory to Cusco.
