Simón Bolívar International Airport of Maiquetia (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetia Simón Bolívar) is an international airport

International airport

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 located in Maiquetía

Maiquetía

Maiquetía is a city in the Vargas state of Venezuela, near Caracas.Simón Bolívar International Airport, which handles both international and domestic flights, is located in the city....

, Venezuela

Venezuela

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, about 13 miles (21 kilometers) from downtown Caracas

Caracas

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

.

Simply called 'Maiquetia' by the local population, it is the top international air passenger gateway to Venezuela among the twelve international airports in the country. From 1960 to 1997 it was the main hub for VIASA

Viasa

Venezolana Internacional de Aviación Sociedad Anónima , or VIASA for short, was the Venezuelan national airline between 1960 and 1997. It was headquartered in the Torre Viasa in Caracas. Launched in 1960, it was nationalised in 1975 due to financial problems, and re-privatised in 1991, with the...

, Venezuela's former flag carrier till the air carrier went bankrupt.

It handles flights to many important cities in the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East.

Since 2000 the airport has been undergoing major changes in order to meet international standards and to improve passenger traffic, security, immigration areas and customs areas. Security measures have become top priority since the 9/11

September 11, 2001 attacks

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 events, and now departure areas and arrival areas are completely split into the lower and upper levels of the airport. As part of an expansion plan new international gates are currently in construction and a section of the parking area has been cleared to build an airport hotel.

Maiquetia airport has two terminals: Domestic (D) and international (I).

Statistics

Passenger traffic

• 2005: 7,079,634
• 2006: 6,772,583
• 2007: 8,357,446
• 2008: 8,722,295
• 2009: 8,773,461
• 2010: 8,830,688

Terminals, airlines and destinations

D represent Domestic Terminal. I represent International Terminal.

Cargo airlines

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See also

• List of Venezuelan Airlines
• Los Roques Airport
  Los Roques Airport
  - Incidents and accidents :*On 4 January 2008 at 14:08 UTC a Transaven airlines Let L-410UVP-E3 on a scheduled domestic flight from Simón Bolívar International Airport, serving Caracas, to Los Roques Airport, reported that it had lost power in both engines at and was descending...
  
   – an airport serving Los Roques archipelago
  Los Roques Archipelago
  The Los Roques islands are a federal dependency of Venezuela, consisting of about 350 islands, cays or islets. The archipelago is located 80 miles directly north of the port of La Guaira, and is a 40-minute flight, has a total area of 40.61 square kilometres.Being almost an untouched coral reef,...
  
  national park, remotely controlled from Simón Bolívar International Airport

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