Simón Bolívar International Airport (IATA: SMR, ICAO: SKSM)
It is located 16.5 km from the city of Santa Marta, in northern Colombia.
It has been categorized as "international" since December 2007. It was awarded in concession in 2011. That same year it was the ninth Colombian airport in terms of passengers and the nineteenth in cargo.
It was subjected to a modernization process that ended in 2017.
The modernization plan for the Simón Bolívar airport began in February 2015. A new 22.65 m high control tower has eight floors and independent access has been operating autonomously since May 31, 2016.
Building opened in 2017.
The first stage of modernization ended in March 2017 and the second in December of the same year. It included the construction of a new terminal consisting of five modules, each with three floors.
The resulting total area was 15,413.54 m2.1
The new infrastructure has a spacious hall with modern check-in modules, flight itinerary screens, airline offices, Airport Health and User Attention Services.
It has a domestic terminal, to which the drop-down bridges for boarding in rooms 1 and 2 correspond.
It has restaurants and a commercial area, where you will find ATMs, money exchange offices and car rental companies.
For aircraft, it has 5 contact positions with glass walkways, 6 positions for private aviation, 5 luggage bands and air conditioning and ventilation systems.
It has radio navigation aids, which allows greater operation facilities for pilots and greater safety when operating in bad weather conditions. This new terminal has a surface parking of 30,702.56 m2 with a capacity for 170 cars, 44 for motorcycles, and urban bus stops.
Fantastic scenery from Santa Marta, one of the dangerous airports in Colombia, the runway makes difficult to land, is mandatory a hard landing haha. Five Stars to the review.