Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport () is an airport in

Jujuy Province Jujuy is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. The only neighboring Argentine province is Salta to the east and south. Geography There are three main areas in Jujuy ...

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serving the city of

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. It is the northernmost Argentinian airport served by scheduled flights. It is located southeast of the city in Ciudad Perico. Inaugurated by Governor Darío Arias on April 19, 1967, it was originally named Aeropuerto El Cadillal. The airport was renamed in 1992 after Dr. Horacio Guzmán, governor for most of the period between 1958 and 1964, and by whose initiative the facility was built. It is operated by

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used Jujuy Airport before for refuelling long flights to

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and

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. In 1980, the airline was operating scheduled

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passenger flights from the airport direct to

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once a week via a stop in Bogota. A new terminal was constructed between 2019 and 2020, that expanded the airport's operating capacity, making it capable of operating up to four flights simultaneously: two through

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and two remotely, with which it could handle more than four hundred passengers per hour. Each of its jet bridges is ready to receive international flights.

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Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos
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