Stanford-Miller International Airport

Stanford-Miller International Airport (IATA: SMI, ICAO: RVMT) is an international airport serving Metropolis, Valladares and its surrounding areas. The airport is located in the Villena suburb of Metropolis, 35 minutes away from the city's central business district. It served over 38 million passengers in 2021 and 390,000 metric tons of cargo in 2021, making it one of the busiest airports in Rushmore in terms of passenger and cargo traffic. Stanford-Miller, named in honour of Valladar aviation pioneers Thomas Stanford and Alfred Miller, is also by far the busiest and most important airport in Valladares, accounting for over half (55%) of the country's air traffic.

Stanford-Miller is a hub for the Valladar flag-carrier ValAir and subsidiaries VaLink and ValCargo; Star Air; low-cost carrier Avispa; and a number of other cargo airlines. It is owned by the Royal Government of Valladares and operated by Valladar Airports, a consortium composed of Valladar construction and engineering firms.

Terminals
Stanford-Miller International Airport has three passenger terminals.

Terminal 1
The airport's original building located in the southern sector, Terminal 1 was opened on 17 October 1968, and is known for being the Domestic Terminal. It features 20 parking bays served by aerobridges and several remote bays for regional aircraft. It serves Star Air, Avispa, Aires, Western Airlines, and Tiger Airways. There are lounges for Star Air and Tiger Airways.

Terminal 2
Terminal 2, opened on 5 April 1995, is known as the International Terminal, located in the airport's western sector. It has 25 gates served by aerobridges, as well as a number of remote bays which are heavily utilised during peak periods and for parking of idle aircraft during the day.

The terminal building is split into three levels, one each for arrivals, departures and airline offices. The departure level has 20 rows of check-in desks each with 10 single desks making a total of 200 check-in desks. The terminal hosts several airline lounges and underwent a major redevelopment that was completed in 2013, by which the shopping complex was expanded, outbound customs operations were centralised and the floor space of the terminal increased to 280,000 square metres (3,013,894 sq ft). Further renovations began in 2018 with a reconfiguration and decluttering of outbound and inbound duty-free areas, extension of the airside dining areas and expansion of Migración Valladares outbound immigration facilities. These works were completed in 2019.

Terminal 3
Terminal 3 is a mixed domestic and international terminal, exclusively serving ValAir as well as its regional subsidiary VaLink, who moved their operations from Terminal 1 and 2 to Terminal 3 on 25 June 2008. It is located in the north-eastern section facing Terminal 2, with which it shares an underground train station. Terminal 3 has 35 parking bays served by aerobridges, including three served by dual aerobridges. Terminal 3 features a large ValAir Friends lounge, along with a dedicated Business Class lounge. It also has a museum dedicated to ValAir and including many collections from the airline's years of service. Given that all international flights served by ValAir depart from this terminal, customs and immigration facilities are also installed there.

Cargo terminal
The airport is a major hub for freight transport to and from Valladares handling approximately 50 percent of the national cargo traffic. Therefore, it is equipped with extensive freight facilities including four dedicated cargo terminals operated by several handlers.

Military airport
Stanford-Miller International Airport also houses CATAM (Centro Activo de Transporte Aéreo Militar or Active Center for Military Air Transport), which is the main base for the Valladar Royal Air Force, sharing its runways with it.

Public transport
The airport is accessible from downtown Metropolis via the Airport Link service of the Metropolis Metro, which uses part of the Metro's Line A route. The International Airport station, which serves both Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 is located directly below the Airport bus station, while the Domestic Airport station is located below the Domestic terminal. CapitalRail operates suburban trains from the western suburbs of Greater Metropolis such as Los Chorros, Vincent, and Villena, which stop at the Airport rail station and are also used by commuters, with their final destination being Sarmiento station in the city of Metropolis, which is connected to the Metro's Lines A and C.

MetroBus routes are operated from several zones of Metropolis and District of Metropolis municipalities to the Airport bus station, mainly from Ciudad Piar, Swangard, and neighborhoods in southern and eastern Metropolis. Airport bus station also offers inter-city services to Greater Metropolis suburbs located in the Angostura state.

Road access
Road access to Stanford-Miller International Airport is done through the Acceso Oeste road (V1), a motorway, which runs parallel to the Puracé River and is the extension of Metropolis's Jaramillo Avenue to the western zones of Greater Metropolis and the Angostura and Mountbatten states. Acceso Oeste is the fastest link with the city centre. The General Baraguez Avenue beltway, which delimits the airport's perimeter to the east, links the airport with the south-eastern districts and suburbs of Metropolis. The terminals, control tower, general aviation area, car-rental company storage yards, car parks, and hotel are all connected by Aviación Avenue, which allows access to the complex from Acceso Oeste. Aviación Avenue also allows access to the airport from the Swangard suburb, where it is known as Francis Street. A perimeter road runs inside the secured area for authorised vehicles only.

The District of Metropolis Government plans to build a second Metropolis airport access from the south, to ease travel from the southern suburbs such as Villena and others in the Angostura state. The project is currently in its design stage, and is expected to be built within 5 years.

The airport runs several official car parks—Domestic Short Term, Domestic Remote Long Term, and International Short/Long Term.