Ushuaia – Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (, ) is located south of the center of

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, a city on the island of

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in the Tierra del Fuego Province of

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Overview

The airport was opened in 1995, replacing an older one, which is now in use with the Ushuaia Aeroclub . The new airport has been used by various

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at different periods. It is the world's southernmost

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and is often used by passengers as a cruise-ship gateway to the

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. Ushuaia International Airport can accommodate airplanes as large as the

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. Tower Air operated 747s into the airport, and Aerolíneas Argentinas operated 747-400s into the airport during events of high passenger numbers (such as entire cruise-ship passenger payloads) until retiring the 747 in February 2012. Two chartered Air France

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s also visited in the past: F-BTSD arriving from Buenos Aires and continuing to Santiago, Chile, in early 1999; the second arriving from

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, Chile and continuing to Buenos Aires prior to the cessation of most Concorde charter flights on 25 July 2000 (following the crash of Air France 4590). In the past,

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, LTU,

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and

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also offered charter flights from Germany,

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from Austria, and

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and First Choice Airways from the United Kingdom. It also chartered flights to

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. The airport's name reflects Argentina's claims of

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over the

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of the

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. The airport is on a peninsula extending south into the

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, and all approaches and takeoffs are over the water.

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