In this installment we are going to reviewáThese are all the certified airports and runways that are available in Ecuador.
The idea of this publicationón birthsó thanks to the curiosity of people on social networks. Días atrás with the caíyes of ash volcánica of the Volcán Branch que affectó al José International Airporté Joaquín de Olmedo From Guayaquil.
For the última emissionsón of ash, it's just affectó the operationón of a particular airport, that of the Chimborazo Airport in the city of Riobamba and many people wereó surprised to learn of its existence.
Then, With these doubts in mind it occurred to meó make a list of all the airports in Ecuador and also complementén with the tracks.
Ecuador airports
La informationóní list is púpublic and is available in the AIP of Ecuador AD 1.3 Íair indexódromes and heliports:
- Jumandy Airport located in Ahuano
- Operationónational
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Chacho Airportán located in Ambato
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Seymur Airport located on Baltra Island
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- Ecogal
- Catamayo City Airport located in Catamayo
- Operationónational.
- VFR flights
- DGAC
- Francisco de Orellana Airport located in El Coca
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Mariscal La Mar Airport located in Cuenca
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- CORPAC
- Cumbaratza Airport located in Cumbaratza
- Operationónational.
- VFR flights
- DGAC
- José International Airporté Joaquín of Olmedo located in Guayaquil
- Operationón national and international.
- VFR and IFR flights
- ONE
- General Villamil Airport located on Isabela Island
- Operationónational.
- VFR flights
- DGAC
- Cotopaxi Alternative International Airport located in Latacunga
- Operationón national and international.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Edmundo Carvajal Airport located in Macas
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Eloy Alfaro International Airport located in Manta
- Operationón national and international.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Nueva Loja Airport located in Lago Agrio
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Mariscal Sucre International Airport located in Quito
- Operationón national and international.
- VFR and IFR flights
- Quiport
- Chimbozaro Airport located in Riobamba
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- General Ulpiano P Airportáez located in Salinas
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- San Cristobal Airportóbal located in San Cristóbal
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Los Perales Airport located in San Vicente
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Santa Rosa Regional Airport located in Santa Rosa
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Airport Ríthe Amazon located in Shell
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Colonel Carlos Concha Torres Airport located in Tachina
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
- Lieutenant Colonel Luis A Mantilla Airport located in Tulcán
- Operationónational.
- VFR and IFR flights
- DGAC
These are the operating airports in Ecuador that are managed by concessions, municipality or by the Directorateón General of Aviationón Civil.
Tracks of Ecuador
Since they are más de 350 tracks those registered throughout Ecuador, I'm not going to list them, but yesí to indicate witháHow many are available per province:
- Azuay (1)
- Esmeraldas (5)
- Morona-Santiago (120)
- Pichincha (1)
- Thatñar (4)
- Guayas (79)
- Napa (1)
- st. Helen (6)
- Cotopaxi (1)
- The Ríos (28)
- Orellana (10)
- Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas (2)
- Gold (6)
- Manabí (4)
- pasta (85)
- Succumbíos (6)
These tracks can be pavement, asphalt, land, plates or césped with various uses such as fumigationón, community or private use lanes.
Ecuador's private airports are missing
I can't find that list publicly., It's private just in case 😉
What is meant by VFR and IFR flights??
Do you consider that the Catamayo airport should be in concession so that it can improve its operations??
VFR is Visual Flight Rules and IFR is Instrument Flight Rules.. I don't know if Catamayo would improve its operations if it were concessioned, there is not much that can be done in terms of navigation with its geography.
And the Francisco de Orellana El Coca airport is not on that list
I already put it, got lost for a while.
Thanks Nicholas for the information.. Specifically speaking of the province of Carchi and Tulcán, Is that airport not enabled? According to Ecuatoriana Airlines, it was also going to fly to that airport..
Tulcán is an operational and enabled airport.
Currently it is a little difficult to gain market share on the Tulcán-Quito route, due to the distance to the center of Quito, it does not represent a greater gain for the traveler (4 hours by car) vs (1h wait + 1h of section airport-Quito, not counting the 20 minutes of the flight itself). A route to Guayaquil, on the other hand, would represent a huge gain for the traveler, but of course the commercial/cultural ties between Tulcán-Quito and Tulcán-Guayaquil are not compared, although in recent years if there are more travelers to Guayaquil by land. Another alternative would be to resume being the stopover on some route as it was before Quito-Tulcán-Cali… It would be necessary to analyze the options very well so that they do not have to be closed as happened in the last attempts. Greetings Nicolás and very good page 😀
Great contribution Alex., you're right, although I see the interborder to Cali returning through Esmeraldas, turned out to be a bigger market than Tulcán in every sense.