Alunzaro International Airport
Alunzaro International Airport Aeroporto Internacional de Alunzaro | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Baliscan Aerospace Force (airspace) Civil Aviation Bureau, MLIT (airfield) Balisca Airport Terminal Co., Ltd. (All Terminals) | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Carabassa, Jatiel and Yerba Buena | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Alunzaro, Vitacura | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 758 m / 2,486 ft | ||||||||||||||
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Alunzaro International Airport (Baliscano: Aeroporto Internacional de Alunzaro), commonly known as Alunzaro Airport, Jatiel-Alunzaro Airport, and Jatiel International Airport (IATA: ALU, ICAO: SHAL), is the primary airport that primarily serves the Jatiel-Carabassa metropolitan area, and is the hub for several low cost carriers, including LEAP!, Southern Express, and Cordovana. It is located in the commune Alunzaro, a satellite community of Jatiel located in northern Vitacura.
Alunzaro was the primary international airport serving the wider Concordia area until 1978; Castejón's Concordia International Airport opened that year. Over the following year the airport was gradually demolished, and a complete reconstruction plan commenced in 1990, which was completed in 1997. Commercial flights to Alunzaro resumed in early 1998. A fire in 2015 destroyed significant portions of Terminal 2, leading to Concordia re-assuming all international flights to the conurbation. Following major repairs and the renovations, international travel resumed to Vitacura in 2018.
Alunzaro handled 15,712,859 passengers in 2019; by passenger throughput, and it was the 4th busiest airport in Balisca and the 39th-busiest in the AIN.
