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Article: Best international airport: Guarulhos, Sao Paulo.(Best of Latin America: readers' choice)(airports)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Revista Latin Trade
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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Travelers arriving for the first time at busy Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo may expect a sprawling, hard-to-navigate facility. They'd be wrong; this airport shines for its simplicity. And that may be what prompted LATIN TRADE readers to vote it the best airport in the region, beating out last year's winner, the Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile.
Known locally as Cumbica Airport, after the neighborhood where it is located, Sao Paulo's airstrip was praised by our readers for its easy-to-reach location, just 25 kilometers northeast of Brazil's largest city. Built 14 years ago, its two existing terminals (of four planned) ...