San José Airport

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San Jose Airport
IATA: - ICAO: MGSJ
Summary
Airport type Joint
Operator Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil
Serves Puerto San José
Elevation AMSL 29 ft (9 m)
Coordinates 13°56′10.29″N, 90°50′09.00″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
15/33 6596 2010 Asphalt

San José Airport (IATA: ?ICAO: MGSJ) (Aeropuerto de Puerto San José, Escuintla) serves the city of Puerto San José, the recreative town of Monterrico, the port of Puerto Quetzal and the eastern Guatemalan pacific coast . It is operated and administrated by DGAC - Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil de Guatemala. As this is a new airport it still lacks an IATA code, although it already has an ICAO code.

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[edit] General

San José Airport is located in the western part of the city of Puerto San José, near the pacific coastline. The airport has been recently refurbished and reopened in September 2007, as part of a nationwide airport rehabilitation program. The achieved improvements are:[citation needed]

  • a newly built 2500 m² terminal building with car park
  • a newly built tower
  • newly asphalted an amplified runway with illumination and signposting

[edit] Airlines

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Trasnportes Aereos Guatemaltecos
  2. ^ (Spanish) PrensaLibre.com - Sugieren un operador para seguridad aeroportuaria

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