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Aristides Pereira International Airport (Portuguese Aeroporto Internacional Aristides Pereira) (IATA: BVC, ICAO: GVBA) is an airport in Cape Verde located on the island of Boa Vista, about 5 km (3.1 mi) southeast of the island capital Sal Rei. It is the third-busiest airport in the country.
The airport's main runway is 3,272 m (10,734 ft) long and is the longest in Cape Verde. It is used for long-haul flights. It was also one of the designated emergency landing strips for the U.S. Space Shuttle. [15] The second runway is 1,500 m (4,921 ft) long and was used by small planes. It is now closed for traffic. [citation needed]
Praia Airport, which was opened to international flights in September 2005, caters mainly to the Cape Verdian diaspora; Sal Airport, which previously handled all international flights, currently serves mainly the tourist industry of Sal Island. In late 2009 the São Pedro Airport on the island of São Vicente became an international airport.
The first flight to the new airport was on 6 October 2005 with a flight from Sal. [3] Even though the airport serves the capital and largest city, Praia as well as the island of Santiago, Cape Verde's busiest international airport is Amílcar Cabral International Airport located on the smaller island of Sal.
Bestfly Cabo Verde (legally, and previously doing business as TICV - Transportes Interilhas de Cabo Verde and founded in 2015 as Binter Cabo Verde) is a scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo regional airline based in Praia, Cape Verde. [4] It operates inter-island services. Its main base is Nelson Mandela International Airport. The airline ...
In July 2023 Vinci Airports finalized a financial arrangement to take over seven airports in Cape Verde under a concession agreement signed with the island country’s government. The company will be responsible for the funding, operation, maintenance, extension and modernization of the airports for 40 years, alongside its subsidiary ANA ...
Sal (Portuguese for "salt") is an island in Cape Verde.Sal is a tourist destination with white sandy beaches and over 350 days of sunshine a year. It is one of the three sandy eastern islands of the Cape Verde archipelago in the central Atlantic Ocean, 350 miles (560 km) off the west coast of Africa.
Aeroportos e Segurança Aérea (Portuguese for "Airports and Air Safety", acronym: ASA) is the operator of airports of Cape Verde. Its headquarter is in Espargos on the island of Sal . [ 1 ] It was founded as a state company on February 17, 1984, and was privatised to a Sociedade Anónima in 2001. [ 2 ]