Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport
nativename = _es. Aeropuerto de Rio Gallegos "Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández"
IATA = RGL
ICAO = SAWG
type = Public / Military
owner =
operator = Government and Aeropuretos Argentina 2000
city-served = Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
location = Ruta N3, km 2618. (Z9400). RÍO GALLEGOS
elevation-f = 66
elevation-m = 20
coordinates = coord|51|36|31|S|69|18|45|W|type:airport_region:AR
website =
metric-rwy = y
r1-number = 07/25
r1-length-m = 3,550
r1-length-f = 11,639
r1-surface = Concrete
stat-year = 2007
stat1-header = Total Passengers
stat1-data = 201,623
footnotes = Sources: AIPes icon PDF| [http://www.cra.gov.ar/dta/ais/aip/docs/236.pdf SAWG - RIO GALLEGOS / Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández] at AIP Argentina] , ORSNAes icon " [http://www.orsna.gov.ar/aeropuertos/infoaeropuertos.asp?id_aeropuerto=33 Aeropuerto de Rio Gallegos "Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández"] " at "Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos (ORSNA)"] , DAFIFWAD|SAWG|source=DAFIF] GCM|RGL|source=DAFIF]

Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport ( _es. Aeropuerto de Rio Gallegos "Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández") airport codes|RGL|SAWG is located 4.5 km (2.8 miles) west-southwest of the center of Río Gallegos, a city in the Santa Cruz Province of Argentina. The airport covers an area of 1150 hectares (2841 acres) and is operated by "Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 S.A."

It is served by Aerolíneas Argentinas, LAN Argentina and LADE. It has 149,750 m² of runways, 74,690 m² of taxiways, 2,285 m² of terminal, and 2,187 m² of hangars. It was constructed in 1964, and the paved runway was inaugurated in 1972 with a Caravelle flight of Aerolíneas Argentinas. Rio Gallego's Airport has the longest runway in an Argentine Airport.

Airlines and destinations

*Aerolíneas Argentinas (Buenos Aires-Aeroparque, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Ushuaia)
**Austral Líneas Aéreas (Buenos Aires-Aeroparque)
*LADE (Buenos Aires-Aeroparque, Comodoro Rivadavia, El Calafate, Esquel, Gobernador Gregores, Puerto Deseado, Puerto San Julián, Puerto Santa Cruz, Río Grande, Ushuaia)
*LAN Airlines (Punta Arenas, Santiago de Chile, Stanley)
**LAN Argentina (Buenos Aires-Aeroparque)

References

External links

* [http://www.aa2000.com.ar/eng/home/index.php?&cambioTop=SI&cmbAirports=8 Río Gallegos, RGL] at Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 (official web site)
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