Goiânia/Santa Genoveva International Airport (IATA: GYN, ICAO: SBGO) is the airport serving Goiânia, Brazil.

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Goiânia/Santa Genoveva International Airport Aeroporto Internacional de Goiânia/Santa Genoveva
IATA: GYN ICAO: SBGO LID: GO0001
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Infraero (1974–2021) CCR (2021–present)
Serves	Goiânia
Time zone	BRT (UTC−03:00)
Elevation AMSL	748 m / 2,453 ft
Coordinates	16°37′57″S 049°13′16″W
Website	www.ccraeroportos.com.br/goiania-go
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GYN Location in Brazil
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14/32 2,286 7,500 Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Passengers 2,100,107 42% Aircraft Operations 49,981 38% Metric tonnes of cargo 7,905 110%
Statistics: Infraero[1] Sources: Airport Website,[2] ANAC,[3] DECEA[4]

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It is operated by CCR (Companhia de Concessoes Rodoviarias), a Brazilian toll road operator.

The airport was commissioned in 1955, although operations started a few years earlier. In 1974, Infraero started to operate the airport.

In 2010, the government of the state of Goiás, in order to encourage tourism and aviation, reduced the tax on petrol from 15% to 3%.^[5] After such a reduction, there was some interest from airlines to build a hub at Santa Genoveva Airport,^[6] but operational limitations prevented the immediate implementation of such a plan.

The old passenger terminal was capable of handling 600,000 passengers/year, but in its last few years it had been operating beyond its capacity; in 2015, it handled more than 5 times its capacity. On May 9, 2016, a new passenger terminal located on the opposite side of the old and across the runway was opened. It is capable of handling 6,3 million passengers/year.^[7] This new terminal has 32 check-in counters and 8 jetways, apart from the usual amenities such as stores and restaurants.^[8]

Previously operated by Infraero, on April 7, 2021, CCR won a 30-year concession to operate the airport.^[9]

• 22 February 1975: VASP Boeing 737-2A1 registration PP-SMU en route from Goiânia to Brasília was hijacked by 1 person who demanded ransom. The hijacker was taken down.^[10]
• 29 September 1988: VASP Boeing 737-300 registration PP-SNT operating Flight 375 en route from Belo Horizonte-Confins to Rio de Janeiro was hijacked by 1 person who wanted to force a crash on the Palácio do Planalto, the official presidential workplace in Brasília. The pilot convinced the hijacker to divert to Goiânia where an emergency landing was made. The hijack ended with 1 victim.^[11][12]

The airport is located 8 km (5 mi) from downtown Goiânia.

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