Located in the region of Peru, the Jorge Chavez International Airport serves the city as a whole. In Spanish, this main international as well as domestic airport is also known as Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chavez. The airport lies in Callao at a distance of 11 kilometres from the Historic Centre of Lima and also lies at a distance of 17 kilometres from Miraflores. Today, Callao is considered as a port city that is entirely incorporated with the city of Lima, which is the capital of the country.
Every year, the airport handles more than 8,288,506 numbers of passengers and also aircraft movements that numbers to 98,733. In the year 2009, the airport handled 8,786,973 passengers along with the 104,966 aircraft movements. With this, the airport is growing rapidly and became among the fastest [...]