Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Alfonso Bonilla Aragón
IATA: CLO – ICAO: SKCL
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Aerocali (Cali Aeronautical company)
Serves		Santiago de Cali
Location		Palmira
Elevation AMSL		3162 ft / 964 m
Coordinates		03°32′35″N 76°22′53″W / 3.54306°N 76.38139°W / 3.54306; -76.38139
Website		www.aerocali.com.co
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
01/19	9,842	3,000	Asphalt

Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (IATA: CLO, ICAO: SKCL) also known as Palmaseca International Airport is an airport located in Palmira, Colombia, serving Cali and its suburbs. It is Colombia's second largest airport in terms of passengers, transporting 2,474,951 in 2008. Cali airport is the alternative airport to Bogotá Eldorado airport and other Colombian airports.

Alfonso Bonilla Aragón is located in a long valley that runs from north to south, and is surrounded by mountains up to 14,000 feet (4,000 m) high. An (H24) airport strategically located in the Western Hemisphere for flights of the transcontinental zone of the pacific coast that connects North America with South America. It is located at approximately 5 hours flight from Santiago de Chile, 50 minutes from Quito, Ecuador, and 3 hours 18 minutes to Miami airport.

The airport has one runway, 9,842 feet (3000 m) in length. This runway is paved, and at an elevation of 3,162 feet (964 m). The runway can serve aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 747. It is equipped with the following navigation aids: Primary radar, secondary radar, ILS, ALS, PAPI, VOR, NDB, DME, RVR, center lights, threshold lights, and taxiway lights. The airport has a SEI IX protection.

Alfonso Bonilla airport is notable in that it is one of the few secondary airports in Latin America open 24 hours a day. Airport meteorological conditions are excellent, it is in operation at all the time during the year. The nearest city is Cali at 12 miles away, which allow the airport to operates without any environmental restrictions. Daily it has direct flights to the United States and Europe and others international connecting flights.

Contents 1 History 2 Accidents and incidents 3 Concourses, airlines and destinations 3.1 Cargo Airlines 4 References 5 Sources

[edit] History

• El Guabito: The first airport in cali was located within a military base called "El Guabito." The airport was inaugurated on September 21 1933, with mixed commercial and military operations.
• Calipuerto: As air traffic increased, it became necessary to separate military and commercial aviation operations. As a result, a new airport was built in the middle of the Cauca Valle to the southeast of Cali, inaugurated on April 17, 1943.
• Palmaseca International Airport: When Cali was awarded the hosting of the 1971 Panamerican games local authorities decided to build a new airport capable of handling the air traffic generated by the event. The site chosen was near the village of Palmaseca, roughly in the middle of the Cauca valley between Palmira and Cali. The airport was inaugurated on July 24 1971, and save a few minor modifications has not been changed at all, testament to the accuracy of long-term air traffic and passenger volume planning.

[edit] Accidents and incidents

• On 21 January 1974, a Vickers Viscount of Aeropesca Colombia was hijacked and diverted to Cali.^[1]
• On December 20, 1995, American Airlines Flight 965 on route from Miami to Bonilla Airport crashed into a mountain near Cali due to pilot error.

[edit] Concourses, airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations	Concourse
Aires	Bogotá	D
American Airlines	Miami	I
Avianca	Bogotá, Madrid, Miami, Medellín-Córdova, New York-JFK, Pasto, Tumaco	D, I
Avianca operated by SAM	Bogotá, Medellín-Córdova	D
Copa Airlines	Panama City	I
Copa Airlines operated by AeroRepública	Bogotá, Panama City, San Andrés Island	D, I
LAN Perú	Lima, Quito	I
SATENA	Guapi, Ipiales, Medellín-Olaya Herrera, Quibdó, Tumaco	D, I
TAC	Timbiqui, El Charco [charter]	D
TACA Perú	Guayaquil, Lima	I
TAME	Esmeraldas, Quito	I

[edit] Cargo Airlines

• Tampa Cargo
• Arrow Cargo
• Atlas Air
• AeroSucre
• Líneas Aéreas Suramericanas

[edit] References

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[edit] Sources

• Official Airport Site (Spanish)
• Airport information for SKCL at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• A-Z World Airports: Cali - Alfonso Bonilla Aragón Airport (CLO/SKCL)

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