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Jorge Chávez International Airport (IATA Airport Code: LIM) is Peru's main national and international gateway, serving over 4.5 million passengers per year. A single runway airport, it is located in Callao, the port city now fully integrated with Lima, the nation's capital. The airport is named after the pioneer Peruvian pilot Jorge Chávez. It was the hub for Aeroperú and Faucett (one of the oldest airlines in Latin America) for many years, and now it serves as a hub for many new aviation companies, not to mention hub of pickpockets and hub of vendors.
The airport was privatized on February 14, 2001 and is now managed and operated by Lima Airport Partners (LAP), a joint venture of Bechtel Corporation, Flughafen Frankfurt Main AG, Cosapi S.A.. The airport is now (2004) under renovation and reconstruction.
On March 1, 1996, Faucett Flight 251, a Boeing 737 (which was leased from American Airlines) crashed in the mountains near Arequipa. Everyone on board died. The same year, on October 2, AeroPeru Flight 603, a Boeing 757 that was enroute from Lima to Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, crashed in the Pacific Ocean. Everyone on board died.
On August 2 1997, a wheelchair-confined elderly passenger was boarding a Continental Airlines Boeing 757-200 flight from Lima to Newark, New Jersey. He was told by a gate agent to remain at the top of the steps while the agent loaded the wheelchair into the cargo bin. Defying the agent's orders, he walked into the aircraft, through the galley, out through the open catering door and fell to the tarmac below. The man died as a result of the injuries he sustained from the fall. None of the eight crew members or the other 141 passengers were injured.
Airlines
Among the airlines flying into this airport are:
- Aerocombi
- Aerolíneas Argentinas
- Aeromexico
- Aeropostal
- Air Canada
- Air Madrid
- American Airlines
- Avianca
- Continental Airlines
- Copa
- Delta Airlines
- Grupo TACA
- Iberia
- KLM
- LAN Airlines
- LAN Peru
- Lloyd Aereo Boliviano
- Varig
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External link
- Official website (http://www.lap.com.pe/)es:Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez