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Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport
Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport is an international airport located in the city of Cusco, in southeastern Peru. Cusco, a principal tourist attraction in Latin America, receives various domestic flights as well as some international flights. The runway is completely paved. It operates at limited capacity due to its precarious location near the city's center. Despite these limitations, the airport has consistently ranked as Peru's second most important air terminal, handling 3,004,412 national and international passengers in 2023, as reported by CORPAC. Name It was named in honor of the Peruvian pilot Alejandro Velasco Astete who was the first aeroplane pilot to cross the Andes in 1925. This first flight was from Lima directly to Cusco. Later that year, in September, while trying to avoid crashing into spectators at an airshow in the city of Puno he crashed and was killed. In recognition of his pioneering achievements in Peruvian aviation history, the airport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CORPAC
The Peruvian Corporation of Commercial Airports and Aviation Inc. (CORPAC) () is a Peruvian state-owned entity which operates various airports in Peru. It was founded by law (Decreto Legislativo No. 99 - Ley de CORPAC S.A) in June 1943. CORPAC S.A.Legal base, retrieved November 2, 2008. See also * Aeropuertos del Perú Airports of Peru () is a private company that operates twelve regional airports in Peru. It is the first group of regional airports the government of Peru transferred to a private operator. The company was incorporated on October 30, 2006. Hi ... * Lima Airport Partners References Airport operators !CORPAC {{Peru-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smithsonian Magazine
''Smithsonian'' is a magazine covering science, history, art, popular culture and innovation. The first issue was published in 1970. History The history of ''Smithsonian'' began when Edward K. Thompson, the retired editor of ''Life'' magazine, was asked by then-Secretary of the Smithsonian, S. Dillon Ripley, to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian nstitutionis interested, might be interested or ought to be interested." Thompson later recalled that his philosophy for the new magazine was that it "would stir curiosity in already receptive minds. It would deal with history as it is relevant to the present. It would present art, since true art is never dated, in the richest possible reproduction. It would peer into the future via coverage of social progress and of science and technology. Technical matters would be digested and made intelligible by skilled writers who would stimulate readers to reach upward while not turning them off with jargon. We would fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LATAM Perú
LATAM Airlines Chile, formerly known as LAN Chile and LAN Airlines, is a Chilean multinational airline based in Santiago and one of the founding companies of the LATAM Airlines Group, the largest airline holding company in Latin America. Its main hubs are in the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo and Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, with secondary hubs in Bogotá, Quito, Guayaquil and Asunción. LAN was the flag carrier of Chile until its privatization in the 1990s; it is the predominant airline in Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, the largest carrier in Brazil, and the second-largest in Colombia, through its local subsidiaries. LATAM is the largest airline in Latin America, serving Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, Oceania, Asia, and Europe. The carrier was a member of the Oneworld airline alliance from 2000 until 2020. LATAM Airlines Group was formed after the takeover by LAN of Brazili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodríguez Ballón International Airport
Rodríguez Ballón International Airport (, ) is an airport serving Arequipa, the capital of Arequipa Region and Peru's second largest city. This airport and Cusco's Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport are the main air hubs in southern Peru. It is named for early Peruvian aviator Alfredo Rodríguez Ballón. It is the third busiest airport in Peru. It is the main air gateway for tourists visiting the city of Arequipa, nearby ruins, and the Colca Canyon, the world's second deepest canyon (only behind Cotahuasi Canyon, also in Arequipa). The airport's passenger traffic has grown very rapidly since the airport was granted in concession as part of 6 airports in the southern part of Peru to Aeropuertos Andinos del Perú. As of the end of 2017 passenger traffic was 1,689,921 as reported by CORPAC, Peru's national airport corporation. The current terminal has already excedeed its planned capacity (around 1.5 million passengers) and it is expected that the airport will re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JetSmart Perú
JetSmart Airlines Perú S.A.C., styled as JetSMART, is a Peruvian airline owned by the Chilean ultra low-cost carrier JetSmart, itself owned by Indigo Partners. Its primary base of operations is Jorge Chávez International Airport, servicing Lima, Peru; and has a secondary base at Rodríguez Ballón International Airport, in Arequipa, Peru. Destinations JetSmart Perú operates to the following destinations: Fleet , JetSmart Perú operates an all-Airbus A320neo The Airbus A320neo family is an incremental development of the A320 family of narrow-body airliners produced by Airbus. The A320neo family (''neo'' being Greek for "new", as well as an acronym for "new engine option") is based on the Airbus A3 ... fleet composed of the following aircraft: See also * List of airlines of Peru References External linksOfficial website {{Airlines of Peru Airlines established in 2021 Airlines of Peru Low-cost carriers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Alto International Airport
El Alto International Airport () is an international airport serving La Paz, Bolivia. It is located in the city of El Alto, west of La Paz. At an elevation of , it is the highest international airport in the world, the seventh highest commercial airport in the world and the highest commercial airport outside of China. The airport has been in service since the first half of the 20th century, but was modernized in the late 1960s, when its runway was lengthened and a new passenger terminal with modern facilities was built. The new airport was inaugurated in 1965. El Alto airport was a primary hub for the former Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, Bolivia's flag carrier which ceased operations in 2007. It serves also as a focus city for Boliviana de Aviación, Bolivia's flag carrier and state-owned airline. History Bolivia is characterized by an extremely varied terrain including rugged mountains, high plateaus, low valleys and tropical forests; this topography has had a negative effect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Dorado International Airport
El Dorado International Airport is an international airport serving Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, and its surrounding areas. The airport is located mostly in the Fontibón district of Bogotá, although it partially extends into the Engativá district and through the municipality of Funza in the Western Savanna Province of the Cundinamarca Department. It served 45,816,050 passengers in 2024 making it the busiest airport in Latin America in terms of passenger traffic, as well as being the 32nd busiest airport in the world in 2022. With 760,000 metric tons of cargo passing through the same year, it is also Ibero-America, Iberoamerica's most important cargo hub. El Dorado is also by far the busiest and most important airport in Colombia, accounting for just under half (49%) of the country's air traffic. The facility covers and contains two long runways. El Dorado has non-stop international flights to North America, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avianca
Avianca S.A. (acronym in Spanish for ''Aerovias de Colombia S.A.'', "Airways of Colombia", and stylized as avianca since October 2023) is the largest airline in Colombia. It has been the flag carrier of Colombia since December 5, 1919, when it was initially registered under the name SCADTA. It is headquartered in Colombia, with its registered office in Barranquilla and its global headquarters in Bogotá and main hub at El Dorado International Airport. Avianca is the flagship of a group of airlines of the Americas, which operates as one airline using a codesharing system. Avianca is the largest airline in Colombia and second largest in South America, after LATAM of Chile. Avianca and its subsidiaries have the most extensive network of destinations in the Americas. Before the merger with TACA in 2010, it was wholly owned by Synergy Group, a South American holding company established by Germán Efromovich and specializing in air transport. It is listed on the Colombia Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CUZ (6)
Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport is an international airport located in the city of Cusco, in southeastern Peru. Cusco, a principal tourist attraction in Latin America, receives various domestic flights as well as some international flights. The runway is completely paved. It operates at limited capacity due to its precarious location near the city's center. Despite these limitations, the airport has consistently ranked as Peru's second most important air terminal, handling 3,004,412 national and international passengers in 2023, as reported by CORPAC. Name It was named in honor of the Peruvian pilot Alejandro Velasco Astete who was the first aeroplane pilot to cross the Andes in 1925. This first flight was from Lima directly to Cusco. Later that year, in September, while trying to avoid crashing into spectators at an airshow in the city of Puno he crashed and was killed. In recognition of his pioneering achievements in Peruvian aviation history, the airport was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Korea IT Times
''Korea IT Times'' () is a bilingual publication (Korean and English) with an eye on Industry & Technology, including the ICT field based in Seoul, South Korea. Publication Details: • Launch: July 2004 • Publisher: Korea ET Times Media Group • ICT, Science news and issues including all of Industry and Technology • Internet and Mobile online: Daily News • Print Magazine: Monthly • Language: English and Korean Core team * Chung Monica Younsoo, the founder and publisher of the Korea IT Times, served as the editor of the Korea Economic Daily News. * Jung Yeon-tae, former CEO of KOSCOM (a Korean provider of financial IT services), was inaugurated as co-publisher and chairman of the Korea IT Times on November 3, 2015. * Lee Kap-soo, former editor of Korea Times, was inaugurated as an editor in chief of the Korea IT Times on January 10, 2017. The ''Korea IT Times'' editors are Yeon Choul-woong, Jeong Yeon-jin and Chun Clair Go-eun, CMO in New York. The Korea IT Times s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
