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The airport covers an area of 1,150 hectares (2,800 acres) and is operated by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000. The airport was constructed in 1964, and the paved runway was inaugurated in 1972 with a Caravelle flight of Aerolíneas Argentinas. The runway is the longest in Argentina. [5]
Río Gallegos ([ˈri.o ɣaˈʝeɣos]) is the capital and largest settlement of the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz in Argentina.Located in the department of Güer Aike, it has a population of about 98,000, according to the 2010 census [], a 24% increase from the 79,000 in the 2001 census [].
A flight information display system (FIDS) is a computer system used in airports to display flight information to passengers, in which a computer system controls mechanical or electronic display boards or monitors in order to display arriving and departing flight information in real-time. The displays are located inside or around an airport ...
Río Gallegos Air Base is a main military airfield in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina in the far south of the nation. It was the nearest air base to the Falklands Islands in the 1982 war . History
Gobernador Gregores Airport (IATA: GGS, ICAO: SAWR), is an airport serving Gobernador Gregores, a town in the Santa Cruz Province of Argentina. The airport is 6 kilometres (4 mi) east-southeast of the town, on a low mesa above the Chico River. An overrun of 300 metres (980 ft) on the west end of the runway will drop off the mesa.
[citation needed] Today, the Olaya Herrera Airport still has significant passenger movements, because it is a main hub for domestic flights within Colombia and the preferred option for domestic flights out of Medellin. In January 2006, an Airbus A380 landed at the airport to conduct technical tests of the engines. This was the first time a ...
The inaugural flight involved a mercy flight from North Arm Settlement to Stanley to bring a girl with peritonitis to life-saving medical help in Stanley. [1] There is now an international airport , a domestic airport, a number of airstrips, a growing road network and a much-improved ferry service between the two main islands.
In 1993, Guyana Airways was operating nonstop Boeing 757-200 flights from GEO to New York JFK Airport three days a week while BWIA and Leisure Air were operating direct one stop flights from New York JFK Airport, BWIA with McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jets five days a week via an intermediate stop in Antigua and Leisure Air with Airbus A320 jets ...