El Alto International Airport

El Alto International Airport

Infobox Airport
name = El Alto International Airport
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IATA = LPB
ICAO = SLLP
type = Public
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operator = abertis airports (Abertis)
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location = La Paz
elevation-f = 13,325
elevation-m = 4,061
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r1-number = 10/28
r1-length-f = 13,123
r1-length-m = 4,000
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r2-number = 10L/28R
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r2-length-m = 2,050
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El Alto International Airport Airport codes|LPB|SLLP is an international airport located in El Alto, near the city of La Paz, Bolivia; it serves national and international air traffic. At an altitude of convert|4061|m|0|lk=on, it is one of the highest international airports in the world. The facility served as a focus city for the former Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, Bolivia's national air carrier, and is a hub for Aerosur, the country's only significant private airline.

Operators

On March 1, 1997, the Government of Bolivia entered into a 25year contract with Airport Group International to operate thethree largest airports in Bolivia – El Alto Airport in La Paz, Jorge Wilstermann Airport in Cochabamba and Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz. Servicios de Aeropuertos Bolivianos Sociedad Anonima (SABSA)was created to operate the concession. In 1999 Airport Group International was purchased by TBI plc and, in 2004, Spain's Abertis/AENA purchased TBI.

Incidents

On March 8, 2006, a Learjet aircraft belonging to Argentina's military crashed just minutes after taking off from El Alto on its way to Viru Viru International Airport, killing all six people on board.

Airlines and destinations

*Aerosur (Cobija, Cochabamba, Cusco, Lima, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sucre)
*American Airlines (Miami)
*LAN Airlines (Iquique, Santiago de Chile)
**LAN Perú (Lima)
*TACA
**TACA Peru (Lima)

ee also

*Qamdo Bangda Airport, the highest commercial airport in the world, at convert|4334|m|0|abbr=on
*Extreme points of the World

External links

*WAD|SLLP


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