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Latin American and Caribbean airports

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Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport

Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport, originally Palmaseca Airport, serves Cali, Colombia, from Palmira and has handled more than 6 million passengers a year since opening in 1971.

Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport

Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, IATA code SCL, is Chile's principal international airport, serving Santiago from Pudahuel since 1967 with capacity for 38 million passengers a year.

Asunción Silvio Pettirossi International Airport

Asunción Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, also known as Aeropuerto Internacional Silvio Pettirossi, is Paraguay's main international airport, serving the capital, Asunción, with its current terminal opened in 1980.

Augusto C. Sandino International Airport

Augusto C. Sandino International Airport, also known as Managua International Airport, is the country's main international gateway and is situated 11 kilometers east of downtown Managua.

Brasília International Airport

Brasília International Airport, officially Aeroporto Internacional de Brasília – Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek, is the airport serving Brasília, Brazil's federal capital. Opened in 1957, it is one of Brazil's busiest airports.

Cusco Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport

Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Teniente Alejandro Velasco Astete) is the airport serving Cusco, Peru, in operation since 1933 and the main gateway to Machu Picchu.

El Alto International Airport

El Alto International Airport is the international airport serving La Paz, Bolivia, located in El Alto at 4,061 meters, one of the highest commercial airports in the world.

El Dorado International Airport

El Dorado International Airport, also known as Bogotá International Airport, is Colombia's main international airport serving Bogotá. It is Latin America's busiest, handling 45.8 million passengers in 2024.

Felipe Ángeles International Airport

Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA, IATA code NLU) is Mexico City's second international airport, opened on the former Santa Lucía military air base in 2022 to relieve congestion at AICM.

Grantley Adams International Airport

Grantley Adams International Airport, formerly Seawell Airport, is the sole airport of Barbados, located at Seawell in Christ Church and serving as an aviation hub for the Eastern Caribbean.

Jorge Chávez International Airport

Jorge Chávez International Airport, also known as Lima International Airport, is Peru's main airport, serving Lima from Callao. It moved into a new 270,000 m² terminal in June 2025.

José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport

José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport, also known as Simón Bolívar International Airport, Ecuador, serves Guayaquil and is Ecuador's second-busiest airport, with its current terminal opened in 2006.

José Martí International Airport

José Martí International Airport, also called Aeropuerto José Martí, is Cuba's main and busiest airport, about 20 kilometers southwest of Havana and a hub for Cubana de Aviación.

Juan Santamaría International Airport

Juan Santamaría International Airport, also known as SJO Airport, is Costa Rica's principal international airport, serving San José from Alajuela province since it opened in 1958.

La Aurora International Airport

La Aurora International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora) serves Guatemala City about 6.4 km from its center, handling over 4.9 million passengers a year by 2025.

Lynden Pindling International Airport

Lynden Pindling International Airport, formerly Nassau International Airport, is the main gateway to The Bahamas in Nassau, handling a record 4.06 million passengers in 2024.

Mariscal Sucre International Airport

Mariscal Sucre International Airport, also known as Quito Airport, serves Quito, Ecuador, from Tababela about 18 kilometers east of the city, having opened in 2013.

Ministro Pistarini International Airport

Ministro Pistarini International Airport, commonly called Ezeiza International Airport, is Argentina's main international airport in Greater Buenos Aires, opened in 1949 and handling 12 million passengers in 2025.

Montevideo Carrasco International Airport

Carrasco International Airport, officially Aeropuerto Internacional de Carrasco, is Uruguay's main international airport, serving Montevideo. Opened in 1947, it is the country's principal gateway for visitors.

Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport

Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport (BZE) is Belize's only international airport, serving Belize City from Ladyville and named for the nationalist leader Philip Goldson.

Princess Juliana International Airport

Princess Juliana International Airport, also known as Princess Juliana Airport, is the airport of Dutch Sint Maarten in the Caribbean, known for aircraft passing low over Maho Beach.

Punta Cana International Airport

Punta Cana International Airport, also known as Aeropuerto Internacional de Punta Cana, is a privately owned airport on the Dominican Republic's eastern coast, opened in 1983 as the world's first private commercial international airport.

Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport

Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport, also named for Antônio Carlos Jobim, is Brazil's second-largest international hub. Opened in 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, it has been operated by Spain's Aena since 2026.

Salgado Filho Porto Alegre International Airport

Salgado Filho International Airport is the main airport of Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, handling more than 7.5 million passengers in 2023.

Sangster International Airport

Sangster International Airport (MBJ) is Jamaica's largest airport, east of Montego Bay, handling about 70% of the country's annual visitors and ranking among the Caribbean's busiest.

Santiago Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport

Santiago Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Arturo Merino Benítez) is Chile's principal international airport, in Pudahuel about 14 km northwest of central Santiago.

São Paulo Congonhas Airport

São Paulo Congonhas Airport, commonly called Congonhas, is São Paulo's in-city domestic airport, opened in 1936 and one of Brazil's busiest, handling over 24 million passengers in 2025.

Silvio Pettirossi International Airport

Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Silvio Pettirossi) is Paraguay's principal international airport, located in Luque about 15 km from central Asunción and serving as the hub for LATAM Paraguay and Paranair.

Simón Bolívar International Airport (Venezuela)

Simón Bolívar International Airport, also known as Maiquetía International Airport, is Venezuela's principal international airport, located in Maiquetía about 20 kilometers north of Caracas, which it serves.

Tocumen International Airport

Tocumen International Airport, also known as Aeropuerto Internacional de Tocumen, is Panama City's main airport and Copa Airlines' connecting hub, the busiest in Central America.