Guaymaral Airport

Guaymaral Airport (ICAO: SKGY) is a high-elevation airport in the north of Bogotá, Colombia, also serving the towns of Cota and Chía. The runway is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northeast of Bogota's El Dorado International Airport.

Guaymaral Airport

Chia-Guaymaral Airport

Faminio Suárez Camacho Airport
Summary
Airport typeCivil, Military
OperatorColombian government
ServesChía, Bogotá, Colombia
Elevation AMSL8,390 ft / 2,557 m
Coordinates4°48′45″N 74°03′55″W
Websitewww.aerocivil.gov.co
Map
SKGY
Location of the airport in Colombia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11L/29R 1,720 5,643 Asphalt
11R/29L 1,920 6,299 Grass
Sources: GCM[1] Google Maps[2] SkyVector[3]

Overview

The airport primarily handles general aviation, flight school and executive flights traffic. It is the base for private and commercial pilot training schools Aeroandes and Aeroclub de Colombia.[4][5]

There are hills east and west of the airport. The parallel grass Runway 11R/29L is the longer, but is unmarked. Plans to make a new runway are existent, with there being a plan to make runway 04/22 at 3100x46m paved in concrete, build a low cost commercial terminal opposite to the existing aprons, and transfer all low cost flights there, to reduce traffic at nearby El Dorado International Airport. According to plan, this construction should start in May 2020 and shall be finished by January 2023. With this, would as well come a new control tower, and ideas are to transfer airlines such as Viva Air Colombia, Spirit Airlines, EasyFly, Latam Colombia, Wingo (airline), Air Canada Rouge, Interjet, Volaris, Southwest Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Jetblue and others to Guaymaral Airport, leaving El Dorado International Airport "a much higher class airport with elite service to passengers flying legacy carriers", according to El Espectador Newspaper. Please note that according to plan the new control tower will only be for clearance, ground, tower and ATIS, as Approach, Departure and Center would still be managed at El Dorado International Airport, and that only 5 gates will be equipped with airbridges as this would mostly handle low cost flights, which rarely use airbridges. This new infrastructure is designed to handle at its biggest an Airbus A330-200, a Boeing 767-200, a Boeing 787-8, or any aircraft with smaller or equal dimensions as the models mentioned below.

The Romeo non-directional beacon (Ident: R) is located 8.5 nautical miles (16 km) south-southwest of the airport. The Zipaquira VOR-DME (Ident: ZIP) is located 13.2 nautical miles (24 km) north-northeast of the airport, and the Bogota VOR-DME (Ident: BOG) is located 15.7 nautical miles (29 km) west of Guaymaral Airport.[6][7][8]

See also

References
  1. Airport information for SKGY at Great Circle Mapper.
  2. Google Maps - Guaymaral
  3. "Guaymaral Flaminio S Airport". SkyVector. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  4. Aeroandes Spanish
  5. Aeroclub de Colombia Spanish
  6. "Bogota VOR". Our Airports. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  7. "Zipaquira VOR". Our Airports. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  8. "Romeo NDB". Our Airports. Retrieved 28 March 2019.


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