List of the busiest airports in Central America

This is a list of the busiest airports in Central America by passenger traffic, a statistic available for almost all the airstrips taken into account. The present list intends to include all the international and domestic airports located in the area geographically defined as Central America, comprising Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panamá.

Given the fact that each country has a different body to control these statistics, the compilation of data is difficult and no homogeneously distributed. The information here presented represents the best available data in different Internet sources. The ranking is ordered according to total passenger traffic (unless the footnotes indicate the contrary). Information on aircraft movements or cargo movements are not available for all the airports.

Contents

Ranking of airports, 2010

Country Airport Name IATA/ICAO Code City Served Passengers
1. Panama Tocumen International Airport PTY/MPTO Panamá City 5,042,410[1]
2. Costa Rica Juan Santamaría International Airport SJO/MROC San José 3,858,401[2]
3. El Salvador Comalapa International Airport SAL/MSLP San Salvador 1,976,326[3]
4. Guatemala La Aurora International Airport GUA/MGGT Guatemala City 1,970,618[4]
5. Nicaragua Augusto C. Sandino International Airport MGA/MNMG Managua 1,102,200[5]
6. Honduras Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport SAP/MHLM San Pedro Sula 742,000[6]
7. Honduras Toncontín International Airport TGU/MHTG Tegucigalpa 493,000[6]
8. Costa Rica Daniel Oduber International Airport LIR/MRLB Liberia 443,585[7]
9. Panama Albrook International Airport PAC/MPMG Panamá City 269,443[8]
10. Honduras Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport RTB/MHRO Roatán 214,000[6]
11. Honduras Golosón International Airport LCE/MHLC La Ceiba 181,000[6]
12. Belize Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport BZE/MZBZ Belize City 172,402[9]
13. Panama Enrique Malek International Airport DAV/MPDA David 117,260[8]
14. Costa Rica Tobías Bolaños International Airport SYQ/MRPV San José 101,573[10]
15. Guatemala Mundo Maya International Airport FRS/MGTK Flores/Tikal 100,525[11]
16. Panama Bocas del Toro International Airport BOC/MPBO Bocas/Isla Colón 59,091[8]
17. Panama Manuel Niño International Airport CHX/MPCH Changuinola 21,894[8]

Ranking of airports, 2009

Ordered by total passenger traffic, international and domestic, with final data for 2009.

Country Airport Name IATA/ICAO Code City Served Passengers
1. Panama Tocumen International Airport PTY/MPTO Panamá City 4,748,621[1]
2. Costa Rica Juan Santamaría International Airport SJO/MROC Alajuela 3,730,187[2]
3. El Salvador Comalapa International Airport SAL/MSLP San Salvador 2,076,258[3]
4. Guatemala La Aurora International Airport GUA/MGGT Guatemala City 1,948,662[4]
5. Nicaragua Augusto C. Sandino International Airport MGA/MNMG Managua 1,089,992[5]
6. Honduras Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport SAP/MHLM San Pedro Sula 742,000[6]
7. Honduras Toncontín International Airport TGU/MHTG Tegucigalpa 565,000[6]
8. Belize Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport BZE/MZBZ Belize City 450,000[7]
9. Costa Rica Daniel Oduber International Airport LIR/MRLB Liberia 376,858[2]
10. Panama Albrook International Airport PAC/MPMG Panamá City 269,002[8]
11. Panama Enrique Malek International Airport DAV/MPDA David 122,940[10]
12. Guatemala Mundo Maya International Airport FRS/MGTK Flores/Tikal 111,893[9]
13. Costa Rica Tobías Bolaños International Airport SYQ/MRPV San José 104,343[11]
14. Panama Bocas del Toro International Airport BOC/MPBO Bocas/Isla Colón 63,325[10]
1.5 Honduras Juan Manuel Galvez International Airport RTB/MHRO Roatan 60,150[11]

Ranking of airports, 2006

According to Airports Council International's World Airport Traffic Report 2006, and ordered by total passenger traffic (international and domestic), total aircraft movements and total cargo (freight and mail, in metric tonnes)[12]. Information for Guatemala and Belize airports are excluded in this report, as well as some other airports in Costa Rica Rica and Panama.

Country Airport Name IATA/ICAO Passengers Movements Cargo
1. Panama Tocumen International Airport PTY/MPTO 3,215,423 61,161 82,186
2. Costa Rica Juan Santamaría International Airport SJO/MROC 2,623,464 62,158 81,179
3. El Salvador Comalapa International Airport SAL/MSLP 1,624,814 38,264 29,805
4. Nicaragua Augusto C. Sandino International Airport MGA/MNMG 1,089,992 30,991 21,700
5. Honduras Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport SAP/MHLM 593,374 24,680 6,695
6. Honduras Toncontín International Airport TGU/MHTG 545,586 17,904 5,081
7. Honduras Golosón International Airport LCE/MHLC 230,640 22,744 0
8. Honduras Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport RTB/MHRO 208,152 11,406 0

Ranking of airports, 2005

According to Airports Council International's World Airport Traffic Report 2006, and ordered by total passenger traffic (international and domestic), total aircraft movements and total cargo (freight and mail, in metric tonnes)[12]. Information for Guatemala and Belize airports are excluded in this report, as well as some other airports in Costa Rica Rica and Panama.

Country Airport Name IATA/ICAO Passengers Movements Cargo
1. Costa Rica Juan Santamaría International Airport SJO/MROC 2,836,867 69,060 82,959
2. Panama Tocumen International Airport PTY/MPTO 2,756,948 56,837 103,164
3. El Salvador Comalapa International Airport SAL/MSLP 1,640,721 40,570 25,969
4. Nicaragua Augusto C. Sandino International Airport MGA/MNMG 1,062,704 30,902 19,214
5. Honduras Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport SAP/MHLM 586,120 24,984 7,300
6. Honduras Toncontín International Airport TGU/MHTG 516,840 17,886 5,083
7. Honduras Golosón International Airport LCE/MHLC 254,554 25,894 0
8. Honduras Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport RTB/MHRO 215,994 12,942 0

Notes

1. ^ Total Passenger Traffic for 2010, as presented on the airport website. Statistical Report 2010.
2. ^ Total Passenger Traffic for 2010, as presented by Costa Rica's Civil Aviation Authority website, Air Transport Statistical Report 2010. The datum is the sum of the Total International Passenger Traffic (3,769,001) and the Total Domestic Passenger Traffic (89,400).
3. ^ According to the airport website. See El Salvador International Airport Statistics, 2010.
4. ^ Total Passenger Traffic for 2010, reported by Directorate-General of Civil Aeronautics of Guatemala. Total Arrivals, 2010 and Total Departures, 2010.
5. ^ Information available on the airport website. See "Traffic Data" section. The number represents the sum of total International Incoming (501,495), International Departure (465,667), Domestic Incoming (71,814) and Domestic Departure (63,224) passengers, for 2010.
6. ^ Approximate data of total passenger traffic for 2010. A-Port's Business in Honduras report.
7. ^ La Nación. Liberia espera alza superior al 10% anual en el número de pasajeros.
8. ^ According to the Civil Aeronautics Authority of Panamá. Updated info for Marcos A. Gelabert Airport only, data for 2010.
9. ^ HVS Florida Consulting & Valuation. Mother Nature's Best Kept Secret.
10. ^ Total Passenger Traffic for 2010, as presented by Costa Rica's Civil Aviation Authority website, Air Transport Statistical Report 2010. The datum is the sum of the Total International Passenger Traffic (3,948) and the Total Domestic Passenger Traffic (97,625).
11. ^ Reported by Directorate-General of Civil Aeronautics of Guatemala. Total Passenger Traffic, 2010.
12. ^ ACI World Airport Traffic Report 2006 (Updated). Airport Council International World Headquarters. Geneva, Switzerland. Found in Airport Upload Center, Domodedovo International Airport.

See also

Sovereign states