Perales National Airport (IATA: IBE, ICAO: SKIB) is an airport located in the eastern part of the city of Ibagu, Colombia, 11 km from the financial district of municipality 8. It is the main airport of Tolima. Ibagué Airport is on its way to becoming an international airport and will be one of the most important airports in the country and will be an alternative to Eldorado International Airport.
Until April 2006, LAN Avianca was the only option for commercial flights to Bogotá (BOG), after which Avianca Airlines began operations in November 2007. Subsequently, the low-cost airline EasyFly launched flights to destinations in Bogotá, Medellín and Cali. It is one of the airports that Aerocivil has chosen to restructure and maintain. In 2019.
On October 8, 2021, an Avianca Airbus 320 made its first test flight, there were no passengers, since only the company's pilots and some Aerocivil officials wanted to continue, the plane remained there almost 40 minutes after parking Perales, approx. . Dinner back to Bogotá.
It became a reality on October 31, 2021, when an Airbus A319 from the Avianca company took off from the country's capital and arrived at the Perales Airport in Ibagué. Flight 4845 left the capital at 9:46 and arrived at the Perales airport 21 minutes later at 10:07. They transferred 69 passengers on the Bogotá-Ibagu route
The return flight has the number 4810 and leaves at 16:58. 45 passengers were transferred on the Ibaga-Bogotá route.
The aircraft that makes this route has registration N694AV, 7 years and 6 months old and capacity for 120 passengers.