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The new infrastructure, second track and new control tower of the Lima Jorge Chavez Airport, will finally start operations on 1 next april. LAP press photo
At 2025 the airport Jorge Chavez will double the operation of flights per hour, getting around 30 million passengers per year.
The Minister of Transport and Communications, Paola Lazarte, announced the signing of an agreement with Lima Airport Partners (LAP), which establishes that from the 1 April of 2023 the operations of the new control tower and the second runway of the Jorge Chávez International Airport begin.
New runway and control tower
As explained by the head of the MTC, the signing of the act, with the agreement of both parties, generates the date of the start of operations of the new infrastructure built in the first air terminal in the country. in addition, made it clear that "this will not entail the payment of compensation or any other type of compensation in favor of the concessionaire".
With the start of operations of the new control tower and the second runway of the Airport, operational safety in the takeoff and landing of aircraft will be strengthened, as well as the service to airport operators who will have sufficient spaces for aircraft parking will be improved.
The infrastructure of the second runway and the new control tower has been completed and is in progress. In the meantime, the new passenger terminal is under construction and will be completed in 2025, what can you handle 65 flights per hour and accommodate around 30 million passengers per year.
The head of the agency specified that a joint work plan has been approved in the contract with the concessionaire, that allows to start operations in the new term. Corpac is clearly committed to this and for this we are organizing a supervision team that involves the MTC and LAP Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC).
The minister emphasized that this agreement between the State and the concessionaire is the result of joint work and good will to make our first airport the center of Latin America.
new infrastructure
The new control tower has 65 meters high, the equivalent of a building 21 floors, and from there it controls the two tracks of the Jorge Chavez Airport.
The second track has a length of 3.480 meters and has a network of more than 10 kilometers of new taxiways, lights of approach and beacon system. It will be able to handle all types of aircraft. Both are 100% built and deployed.
From the beginning of the works to the present, they have been registered and found 28 findings corresponding to pre-Hispanic times, colonial and republican, between fragments of ceramic material, ceramics, stone tools, bones and cartilage. Of these accidental finds have survived 56, of which 36 have been declared cultural heritage of the nation by the Peruvian state, 33 correspond to pre-Hispanic works and 3 are historical materials. The Ministry of Culture is currently studying an application to recognize 20 most works found in this place as national cultural heritage.
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Hi Nicolas, I have seen Avianca increase flights to Buenos Aires and capacity with the A320s on the route. Is this a temporary or permanent increase? I also saw that Aeroregional is going to fly to Panama
Hi Carlos, The Avianca thing is theoretically permanent and I'm working on that post. About Aeroregional, i saw it too, I asked for information, but i couldn't get anything new.