Maceió International Airport - Zumbi dos Palmares (IATA: MCZ, ICAO: SBMO) is an international airport in the municipality of Rio Largo, in Alagoas, 22 km from the center of Maceió. It is the fifth busiest airport in the Northeast Region and also the fifth airport in the region in terms of the size of the passenger terminal, behind the airports of Salvador, Natal, Recife and Fortaleza. Its 2,200m runway was renovated, with the new 2,602m runway [1] having been opened on September 16, 2005, as wel... Maceió International Airport - Zumbi dos Palmares (IATA: MCZ, ICAO: SBMO) is an international airport in the municipality of Rio Largo, in Alagoas, 22 km from the center of Maceió. It is the fifth busiest airport in the Northeast Region and also the fifth airport in the region in terms of the size of the passenger terminal, behind the airports of Salvador, Natal, Recife and Fortaleza. Its 2,200m runway was renovated, with the new 2,602m runway [1] having been opened on September 16, 2005, as well as a new passenger terminal. This terminal (22,000 m²) follows the contemporary trend of resembling airport terminals to shopping centers. It has four boarding bridges with direct access to the aircraft (fingers), two of which are capable of docking large aircraft (including those of the NLA category - New Large Aircraft) and the new aircraft yard system can simultaneously receive up to 19 planes large-sized.
The airport has 24 check-in counters, 7 escalators, almost 600 parking spaces and 67 areas for commercial activities.
It is the first Airport in Brazil designed with the energy efficiency technology of Cogeneration. In its Cold Water Plant there are 2 generator groups powered by natural gas, which supply electricity to the entire airport. Through the cogeneration process, the hot water, used to cool the generators, as well as their exhausted gases, are reused, generating chilled water through an Absorption Chiller.
