Rodríguez Ballón International Airport

Rodríguez Ballón International Airport
IATA: AQP – ICAO: SPQU AQP Location of airport in Peru
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		CORPAC S.A
Location		Arequipa
Elevation AMSL		8,405 ft / 2,562 m
Coordinates		16°20′27.86″S 71°34′59.1″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
09/27	9,712	2,960	Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers			929,968

Rodríguez Ballón International Airport (IATA: AQP, ICAO: SPQU), known as Aeropuerto Internacional Rodríguez Ballón in Spanish, is an airport serving Peru's second largest city, Arequipa. This airport and Cusco's Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport are the main air hubs in southern Peru. This air terminal was used by 593,038 passengers in 2009, during 2010 the airport served 929,698 passengers, as reported by CORPAC, Peru's national airport corporation, who currently manages this and other non-privatized airports around the country. It is expected that the airport exceeds 1 Million passengers in 2011. Its runway is fully paved. It is the main air gateway for tourists visiting the city of Arequipa, nearby ruins, and the Colca Canyon, the world's second deepest canyon (only behind Cotahuasi Canyon, also located in Arequipa.).

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
AeroSur	La Paz (begins February 2012)
LAN Perú	Cuzco, Juliaca, Lima
Peruvian Airlines	Lima, Tacna
Sky Airline	Arica, Iquique, Santiago de Chile
Star Perú	Cuzco, Lima
TACA Perú	Cuzco, Lima

Accidents and incidents

On 18 March 1983, Douglas C-47E FAP-356 of the Fuerza Aérea del Perú was damaged beyond repair in an accident at Arequipa Airport.

External links

• (English) Airport information for SPQU at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• (English) Map from Multimap
• (English) Satellite image from TerraServer