Fraport Brasil announced the latest forecast for the resumption of domestic flights on October 21st. The operation on a reduced runway (10m) will have the capacity to receive up to 1.730 flights daily. Airlines Azul, Gol and Latam have confirmed the resumption of their flights and are already selling tickets. So far, the return of routes to the cities of Belo Horizonte/MG, Brasília/DF, Campinas/SP, Curitiba/PR, Guarulhos/SP, Rio de Janeiro/RJ and São Paulo/SP has been announced. The runway in its full extension should be ready by December 128th, when the resumption of international flights is also scheduled.
Continuing with Phase 2, there are simultaneous works of milling and recomposition of asphalt mass. The intervention in taxilane (the road that connects the aircraft yard and the taxiways) and on taxiway M4 (taxiway (the path that connects the runway with other areas of the airport) is already finished. The milling of the PPD (Landing and Takeoff Runway) and repairs to concrete slabs have also been completed in the section that will come into operation on 21/10. The next step is the application of asphalt mass, which is already underway in this same area.
On August 17, the installation of the automated asphalt plant was completed and is now fully operational for asphalt production. It s the two external plants that provide services to the airport to speed up the process. In parallel with the paving rehabilitation work, work began on cleaning ditches, restoring the beacon system, and restoring components to enable the reinstallation of vertical signage.
At the enger Terminal, the recovery of floor 1 is underway with the grinding and polishing of the granite and the removal and replacement of drywalls. Each check-in area has its own BHS system (Baggage Handling System), responsible for taking baggage from the service counters to the yard. In the international area, the system is energized and undergoing testing. The system in the domestic area, as well as the baggage claim conveyors, were cleaned and lubricated. They are now being reassembled to continue the tests. Other electrical equipment such as elevators, escalators and boarding bridges have already been cleaned and are being reassembled.
The power substations, which supply the entire airport site, are undergoing restoration work. All equipment below 1m was impacted, including low and medium voltage s, transformers, uninterruptible power supplies and cabling. In order to handle the enger processing operations currently taking place at the Terminal, it was necessary to build a new medium voltage network that connects directly to the grid of the energy concessionaire that serves the city of Porto Alegre.
The work in numbers
- Work is underway on 55.000m² of concrete in the concrete aircraft apron, equivalent to seven football fields.
- 18 airport site buildings and seven IT technical rooms are undergoing renovation.
- 32.000m² of the enger Terminal are undergoing civil restoration works.
- Approximately 300.000m of IT cables and 20.000m of electrical cables are being replaced.
- Seven boarding bridges are undergoing maintenance and testing after component replacement and nine new boarding bridges have been installed.
- 10 power substations (out of a total of 13) and 20 generator sets are undergoing recovery.
- 29 medium voltage cubicles will be replaced.
- 19.300t of asphalt, out of an expected total of 80.000t (for Phase 2), were applied, equivalent to 165 paved streets or 715 trucks.
Procurements
After evaluation by the manufacturers, the following were purchased:
- 15 transformers.
- Nine large capacity UPSs (20 to 300kVA).
- Nine medium voltage s.
- Three EDS (scanners for checked baggage), 10 X-rays and 10 inspection gates.
Vehicles
- Three fire-fighting vehicles have already been recovered and one is being serviced at the authorized dealership.
- Four buses and two minibuses required minor repairs.
- Of a fleet of six tractors, two were a total loss and are in the process of being purchased as replacements.
- Of a total of six lifting platforms, two suffered partial damage and are undergoing repairs.
enger Terminal
- Removal, disposal and execution of 3.118m² of drywall, equivalent to 58 rooms of 20m².
- Removal, disposal and installation of 150 doors.
- Painting on 8.750m², equivalent to four 10-story buildings.
- Cleaning and grouting 19.864m² of granite and porcelain tiles.
- Polishing of 10.000m² of granite, more than a football field (9.000 m²).
- Replacement of 445 power outlets.
- 12 elevators have already been restored and 11 elevators and six escalators are still undergoing renovation.
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