Ministro Pistarini International Airport () , commonly known as Ezeiza International Airport owing to its location in Ezeiza in Greater Buenos Aires, is an international airport south-southwest of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, It was designed and erected by Argentine technicians. shows three runways crossing at 60-degree angles: runway 10/28, 4/22 and 16/34.
The Ezeiza massacre took place near the airport in 1973. For this month, the airport handled 767,824 passengers, a 10.9% increase compared to the previous October; the volume of international and domestic traffic for October 2012 increased 8.7% and 108.3%, respectively, year-on-year. Overall, 2012 traffic figures for the airport indicated a 7.3% increase over the previous year.
Terminals
alt=|thumb|Ministro Pistarini International Airport, Terminal A
alt=|thumb|Buenos Aires-Ezeiza Ministro Pistarini International Airport Terminal A
thumb|Terminal B
thumb|Airport terminal A in 2013
thumb|Last waiting area at Terminal A
thumb|Check-in counters at Terminal A
thumb|Check-in counters at Terminal A
thumb|Check-in counters at Terminal C
thumb|Check-in counters at Terminal C
thumb|Arrivals area at Terminal C
thumb|Terminal C
thumb|Main corridor at Terminal C
Terminal C was inaugurated in July 2011; The old Terminal A became the new International Arrivals Terminal and the old Terminal C became the new Domestic Arrivals Terminal.
Transportation
The airport has bus connections to central Buenos Aires and Retiro bus station in Puerto Madero, and local bus (Colectivo). There are no trains.
Airlines and destinations
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Route development
Qantas withdrew its service to the airport in favour of Santiago in March 2012; After a ten-year gap, Turkish Airlines extended its Istanbul–São Paulo service to end at Ezeiza in December 2012.
In January 2018, Aerolineas Argentinas cancelled the non-stop flight to Barcelona. Later, low-cost carriers LEVEL and Norwegian started long-haul flights to Ezeiza airport from Barcelona and London-Gatwick, respectively. The Norwegian carrier discontinued the route in April 2020. Ethiopian Airlines and Swiss carrier Edelweiss Air launched new flights to Buenos Aires. Aerolíneas Argentinas started flights to Orlando in December 2019, but in March 2020 the route was discontinued. LATAM Argentina ended its operations in June 2020 and discontinued routes to Miami and Brazil. In July 2020, American Airlines discontinued its Los Angeles route.
Statistics
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; width:525px; margin:1em auto;"
|+ Traffic by calendar year. Official ACI statistics.
|-
! style="width:50px"| !! style="width:100px"| Passengers !! style="width:50px"| Change from previous year !! style="width:100px"| Aircraft operations !! style="width:50px"| Change from previous year !! style="width:125px"| Cargo<br>(metric tons) !! style="width:50px"| Change from previous year
|-
!2005
|6,365,989 || 14.34% || 62,048 || 6.10% || 177,358 || 1.41%
|-
!2006
|6,867,596 || 7.88% || 63,693 || 2.65% || 187,415 || 5.67%
|-
!2007
|7,487,779 || 9.03% || 70,576 || 10.81% || 204,909 || 9.33%
|-
!2008
|8,012,794 || 7.01% || 71,037 || 0.65% || 205,506 || 0.29%
|-
!2009
|7,910,048 || 1.28% || 67,488 || 5.00% || 162,806 || 20.78%
|-
!2010
|8,786,807 || 11.08% || 65,063 || 3.59% || 212,890 || 30.96%
|-
| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;"| Source: Airports Council International. World Airport Traffic Statistics<br>(Years 2005–2010)
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;margin:1em auto;" width=align=
|+ Busiest international routes from and to Ezeiza (2017)
|-
! Rank
! City
! Passengers
|-
| 1
| Santiago, Chile
| 1,130,000
|-
| 2
| Miami, USA
| 1,001,000
|-
| 3
| Lima, Peru
| 896,000
|-
| 4
| Madrid, Spain
| 815,000
|-
| 5
| São Paulo, Brazil
| 739,000
|-
| 6
| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| 654,000
|-
| 7
| Bogotá, Colombia
| 372,000
|-
| 8
| Rome, Italy
| 332,000
|-
| 9
| New York City
| 329,000
|-
| 10
| Panama City, Panama
| 275,000
|-
|}
Accidents and incidents
, Aviation Safety Network recorded 30 accidents/incidents for aircraft that departed from the airport or had it as a destination. The list below provides a summary of the fatal events that took place at or in the vicinity of the airport.
- 23 October 1996: Argentine Air Force Flight 5025, a Boeing 707-320C, registration LV-LGP, was operating a cargo service when it struck the ground short of the runway on final approach to Ezeiza inbound from Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Chile. The aircraft broke up and burst into flames. Two occupants of the aircraft died.
External links
- Official website
- Aeropuertos Argentina 2000
- Accident history for EZE at Aviation Safety Network