Car Hire Montevideo Carrasco Airport

Talking about the airports of Uruguay, the Montevideo Carrasco Airport immediately comes in mind being the largest airport at Uruguay. It is also simply referred to as Aeropuerto Internacional de Carrasco because of its proximity with that neighborhood. It is the main airport for Montevideo, Uruguay, situated in the combined municipality of Ciudad de la Costa 18km to the east of Montevideo which is the capital city of Uruguay.

This airport was inaugurated in 1947.Uptil now many up gradation steps have been taken and modern development is being going on here to give it an entirely sophisticated and customer friendly look. This ensures customers’ services quality and well organized air facilities. The public regions and services are highlighted with the stipulation of an loads of wide empty space and sun light. The new terminal built in 2009 has the capacity to handle and control over 3 million passengers and it was designed by an architect Rafael Vinoly. This terminal contains separate floors departures and arrivals and the entire terminal building has four jet ways .The airport has three runways. To allow nonstop flight movements and to cope up with traffic, the run ways have been broadened up to 3200 mts. The Montevideo Carrasco Airport has currently the passenger capacity of over 1.2 million and it is expected to handle over 2.8 passengers in coming years.

The airport also offers facilities of a bank, information centre for tourists and travelers , currency exchangers, various kind of shops and telecommunication facilities. One of the minor issues is that transportation facilities are limited at Montevideo Carrasco Airport. There is mainly the bus service available for transferring and movement of travelers. Being designed by the famous architect Vinoly , not only the overall look and design of the airport and terminals etc are strong enough to attract passengers but the services offered by the airport are also remarkable. It can be a nice experience for the travelers to utilize the airport services here.