Today I invite you to meet the little oneño El Palomar Airport – Buenos Aires, a terminal at a military airport that isá giving a lot of whaté speak in Argentina.
The to intendóní is to show how a littleñO, very smallñor airport, has achieved so much thanks to the will of the authorities, but above all, for having a strategic allyélogic known as aerosolíFlybondi low cost line.
This airport operates regularly, for now, until recently a single aerosolísnow and coldéin the beginningó Jet Smart flights and possibly Sky Airline spaghettién pronto.
This airport shows that large investments are not needed in airports as a country.ó in Ecuador to have passengers, otherwise, everything goes hand in hand with wills and an airítake a risk and want to fly from an airport with zero commercial use and transform it into your Hub towards the whole countryís with a great ésuccess.
Of course, Argentina is a countryís huge of 44 million inhabitants and only the province of Buenos Aires potentially has 16 million passengers, what is the entire populationón from Ecuador, but it is possible, You just have to find that ally with the right fleet of planes and that different airport.
Now you even have, international flights.
The third international airport of Buenos Aires is located in the city of El Palomar with más de 60 thousand inhabitants, humble in its streets, but thanks to the airport the city has come back to life andún the taxi driver who took meó towards thereá, everything has changed and commercially, has been highly benefited despite the complaint of some residents of the sector due to the noise of the airplanes, but it is lack of aero cultureáutica.
The terminal is like a country house, little oneña, but cozy, the growing núpassenger group and airíneas hasá that the próximo añor start a plan for improvements and expansions, that you can read it carefully in the Sir Chandler's blog.
A small airportñO, but what isá working very well, without large facilities, but that in the first 8 meses de operationón of the aerolínea ayudó to the airítry to overcome the 500 thousand passengers, figure that many airports in Ecuador long forían tener.
¿CóHow to get to El Palomar Airport?
There are several ways to do it, I personally recommend taxi:
- Taxi be púI block Uber, from the Center of Buenos Aires the value is around 700 a 900 pesos (más cost of 2 tolls).
- Le Storeón 200 weights per section.
- Train from 11 pesos.
- Buses púwars with theídenies 53, the 182 and the 320.
- Private car, there is parking for hours.
Transfer times must be taken into account, which can take between 35 minutes to 1 hour and 30, depending on the means of transport and time, Therefore, this factor must be taken into account to arrive on time at the flight departure time..
A childñor airport, but it leaves many lessons for the aero industryáutica.
I also saw there that the Colombian airline VivaAir also intends to arrive at this airport in 2020.… It would be great to be able to travel from Medellín to Buenos Aires.
They have mentioned it, surely with the A320 NEO it will be possible.
What is the best way to get to and from El Palomar Airport into Buenos Aires? How long does it take?
We used Uber, it took around 1 hour and 20 minutes, it will depend on the departure time of your flight.
As Nico information. in january 2019 its first full month with international flights had more than 14.000 passengers. (A considerable number considering that it currently operates in Santiago de Chile., Asunción and Punta del Este)
Incredible, It's a spectacular number..
Good afternoon Nicolás, excellent article. I ask you two very curious questions.:
– In addition to Latacunga, what else(s) airport you consider to have a vocation like that of El Palomar?
– Many years ago, some people, I understand that outside the aeronautical field, They proposed a transformation of the Taura base as a new Guayaquil airport. Would this have been feasible?
Hello Paulo, really only Latacunga I see with the potential, maybe salinas, The idea of a low-cost airport is that it is close to a large one. I hadn't heard about Taura, but it would have been interesting, but impossible as it is a sensitive military base of the FAE.
This airport has the particularity of being the only low cost airport in South America since the airport taxes cost almost half that of the rest and the other half is that the train station is just a stone's throw away. 300 meters from the airport and it is already the 8th busiest airport
In Brazil there is no?
supposedly the one from viracopos but it is not low cost although azul operates from there
I don't know if Pisco or Ila in Peru are also.
Hello Nicolas, I want to add that the airport has been there since 1910 and has functioned as an air base since then. Since February of 2018 operates for passengers and has already moved 670 thousand passengers converting it from nothing to the 8th airport in the country and only flying flybondi in which I flew. This year it easily doubles that amount since in December jetsmart arrived for flights to Chile and in April they begin flying internally in Argentina as a base at El Palomar.
The runway has the same dimensions as Aeroparque, 2100 meters.
Geographically it is even closer than the Ezeiza airport and it is the only airport in Argentina with a train station about 300 meters away, so you arrive in Palermo in 30 minutes.
As the current terminal is already becoming too small, in a second stage they are going to renovate two disused hangars of the Argentine air force so that it has more positions and in a third part they are going to build a new terminal at the southern end..
It should be noted that at this airport international taxes are only 40 dollars while in the other terminals of the country 70 which made a flight to Chile drop to half of what it previously cost viva air peru,sky and norwegian plan to fly to this airport. Hopefully at the cotopaxi airport with much better infrastructure than the palomar they will turn it into a low cost airport because they will surely do well
So is, Latacunga could be our Palomar, although the distance from Quito is greater.