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Matecaña International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Matecaña, IATA: PEI, ICAO: SKPE) is an international airport serving the city of Pereira, Colombia. It also serves as an alternate airport for the cities of Armenia, Cartago, Manizales, Medellín, Cali and Bogotá.

Matecaña International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Matecaña
IATA: PEI ICAO: SKPE
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	The city of Pereira
Serves	Pereira, Colombia
Elevation AMSL	4,418 ft / 1,347 m
Coordinates	4°48′45″N 75°44′25″W
Website	www.aeromate.gov.co
Map
PEI Location of airport in Colombia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 2,205 7,234 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft operations 21,088 Passengers 1,890,088 Cargo tonnage 4526
Sources: GCM[1] Google Maps[2]

The airport lies along the edge of a deep ravine, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of Pereira. There are steep dropoffs on the sides and ends of the runway. There is high terrain in all quadrants except south.

Information

The airport was built between 1944 and 1947. Its first official flight was a C-47 piloted by captain Luis Carlos Londoño Iragorrion on 24 July 1947. The city of Pereira owns and manages the terminal building, while the operations are in charge of Aerocivil, being the only airport in Colombia under these conditions. It handles 75 percent of passengers in the coffee region, with an average of 30 daily commercial operations to different destinations.

The passenger terminal is a four-level building built in the early 1970s. The first level includes parking positions for the airplanes, and a baggage claim area. The second/main floor has the check-in counters, airline offices, and domestic and international arrival doors. The third floor has the general waiting room, toilets, stores, restaurants and cafés, free Internet Wi-Fi, a devices charging station, and a VIP lounge operated by Avianca. Also on this level is security access for the two domestic waiting rooms. The international waiting room is here, with an independent door to the duty-free and security areas. In 1991 two jetways were installed from the domestic waiting rooms. On the fourth level are the airport general offices, a chapel, and two footbridges connecting the terminal with the car parking area, which is in front of the main building.

A new cargo terminal was built to replace the original built in 1978. The new control tower is Colombia's second-most-advanced, behind the tower in El Dorado Airport of Bogotá, also recently built.

The terminal has easy access to public transportation, including taxi area, general bus service and an exclusive stop for the bus rapid transit system, Megabus.

Currently, the airport is under a full renovation process, improving aviation safety, comfort and security for users. A 21,000m² (68,897 ft²) completely new terminal is planned.^{[citation needed]}

The runway was extended to 2,205 meters in 2014, to allow for full certification as an international airport.

In December 2016, the CSS Construction Company won the contract to demolish the current terminal and build the new terminal building. This is a public-private alliance in which the CSS company will operate the airport for 20 years while still returning some revenue to the city government. The construction began in November 2017. CSS Construction also has a 30 percent stake in the renovation at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota.

Airlines and destinations

Matecaña International Airport has flights to ten domestic and international destinations, and offers connections to different cities in the Americas and Europe through El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Miami International Airport in the United States and Tocumen International Airport in Panama City. The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at the airport:

Airlines	Destinations
American Airlines	Miami
Avianca	Bogotá, Cartagena (resumes December 10, 2022), Medellín–JMC (begins December 8, 2022),[3] Miami (begins December 8, 2022),[4] New York–JFK (begins December 8, 2022),[5] Seasonal: San Andrés Island
Copa Airlines	Panama City–Tocumen
EasyFly	Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Medellín–JMC, Medellín–Olaya Herrera, Quibdó
LATAM Colombia	Bogotá, Medellín–JMC[6]
Ultra Air[7]	Cartagena, Santa Marta
Viva Air Colombia	Bogotá, Cartagena, Medellín–JMC,[8] Riohacha (begins December 18, 2022),[9] San Andrés Island (ends November 20, 2022),[10] Santa Marta

Statistics

See also

• Transport in Colombia
• List of airports in Colombia

References

External links

• Matecaña Airport at OurAirports
• Aeronautical chart and airport information for Matecana Airport at SkyVector
• Accident history for PEI at Aviation Safety Network
• Current weather for SKPE at NOAA/NWS

На других языках

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[de] Aeropuerto Internacional Matecaña

Der Flughafen Pereira (Spanisch offiziell Aeropuerto Internacional Matecaña[2]; IATA-Code: PEI; ICAO-Code: SKPE) ist der Flughafen der kolumbianischen Stadt Pereira im Departamento Risaralda. Er liegt ca. fünf Kilometer westlich des Stadtzentrums und gehört der Stadt Pereira, die auch für den Betrieb des Gebäudes zuständig ist. Die Abwicklung des Flugbetriebs erfolgt durch die Gesellschaft Aerocivil. Der Flughafen dient vor allem dem Inlandsverkehr, hauptsächlich für Flüge von und nach Bogotá. Die beiden einzigen internationalen Verbindungen bestehen nach Panama und Miami.[3]

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- [en] Matecaña International Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto Internacional Matecaña

El Aeropuerto Internacional Matecaña (IATA: PEI, OACI: SKPE) es un aeropuerto internacional que sirve a la ciudad de Pereira (departamento de Risaralda) y a toda la región del Eje Cafetero y Norte del Valle, en Colombia. En caso de emergencia, es el aeropuerto alternativo al de las ciudades de Armenia, Cartago y Manizales, así como al de los aeropuertos El Dorado de Bogotá, Alfonso Bonilla Aragón de Cali y José María Córdova de Medellín. Fue construido entre 1944 y 1946 y abierto al público el 7 de agosto de 1947. Actualmente, tiene operación regional, nacional e internacional, además de poseer una dependencia de carga totalmente nueva, en reemplazo de la original construida en 1978, como parte del actual proceso de remodelación de la terminal aérea.

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[fr] Aéroport international Matecaña

L'Aéroport international Matecaña (code IATA : PEI • code OACI : SKPE) est un aéroport international situé dans la ville de Pereira, en Colombie.

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[ru] Перейра (аэропорт)

Международный аэропорт Матеканья (исп. Aeropuerto La Florida), (ИАТА: PEI, ИКАО: SKPE) — коммерческий аэропорт, расположенный в черте города Перейра (департамент Рисаральда, Колумбия). Является запасным для аэропортов городов Армения, Картаго и Манисалес.

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