Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport
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| Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport | |||
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| IATA: CLO - ICAO: SKCL | |||
| Summary
<tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Commercial</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Operator</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Aerocali (Cali Aeronautical Company)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Cali, Colombia</td></tr> | |||
| Elevation AMSL | 3162 ft (964 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
Image:SKCL REAL CENTRAL.jpg Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (IATA: CLO, ICAO: SKCL) also known as Palmaseca International Airport is an airport serving Cali, Colombia, and its suburbs.
Alfonso Bonilla Aragón is located in a long, narrow valley that runs from north to south, and is surrounded by mountains up to 14,000 feet (4,267 m) high. This makes landing at the airport notoriously difficult, and has led to many accidents. The airport has one runway, 9,842 feet (3000 m) in length. This runway is paved, and at an elevation of 3,162 feet (962 m). The runway can serve aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 747.
The airport is unique in that it is one of the few secondary airports in Latin America to be opened 24 hours.
On December 20, 1995, American Airlines Flight 965 on route from Miami to Aragon Airport crashed into a mountain near Cali due to a guidance system error which lead to aircraft to a mountain unseen by pilots in the dark.
[edit] Airlines
- Aerolineas de Antioquia (Ibagué, Medellín Olaya Herrera)
- Aires (Ibagué, Ipiales, Pereira)
- AeroRepública (Bogotá, Cartagena, San Andrés Island)
- American Airlines (Miami)
- Avianca (Bogotá, Madrid, Medellín, Miami, New York-JFK)
- Avianca operated by SAM Colombia (Cartagena, San Andres, Medellín, Pasto, Tumaco)
- Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)
- Copa Airlines (Panama City)
- SATENA (Guapi, Ipiales, Medellín Olaya Herrera, Pasto, Quibdo, Tumaco)
- TAME (Tulcan)
[edit] External links
- World Aero Data airport information for SKCL
- A-Z World Airports: Cali - Alfonso Bonilla Aragón Airport (CLO/SKCL)
Alcides Fernández (Acandi) • Alfonso Bonilla Aragón (Cali) • Antonio Nariño (Pasto) • Benito Salas (Neiva) • Camilo Daza (Cúcuta) • El Carano (Quibdó) • El Dorado (Bogotá) • El Edén (Armenia) • El Yopal • Enrique Olaya Herrera (Medellín) • Ernesto Cortissoz (Barranquilla) • Guillermo Léon Valencia (Popayán) • Gustavo Artunduaga (Florencia) • Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (San Andrés Island) • José María Córdova (Río Negro) • La Florida (Tumaco) • La Nubia (Manizales) • La Palma (Valledupar) • La Vanguardia (Villavicencio) • Las Brujas (Corozal) • Los Garzones (Montería) • Matecaña (Pereira) • Mitú • Obando (Puerto Irínida) • Palo Negro (Bucaramanga) • Puerto Bolívar • Puerto Carreño • Rafael Núñez (Cartagena) • Riohacha • San José del Guaviare • Santana (Cartago) • Santiago Pérez (Arauca) • Simón Bolívar (Santa Marta) • Tres de Mayo (Puerto Asís) • Vásquez Cobo (Leticia)• Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo Airport (Valledupar)
