General Alfredo Vásquez Cobo International Airport (IATA: LET, ICAO: SKLT) is an airport located on the outskirts of Leticia, on the road to Tarapacá, Colombia. It is the largest airport in the south of the country and in the Colombian department of Amazonas. This airport is the gateway to the jungle region of Colombia.
It has a single runway approximately 3,000 meters long by 40 meters wide for the entry of large-capacity aircraft, thanks to its grea... Leticia. Alfredo Vázquez Cobo
General Alfredo Vásquez Cobo International Airport (IATA: LET, ICAO: SKLT) is an airport located on the outskirts of Leticia, on the road to Tarapacá, Colombia. It is the largest airport in the south of the country and in the Colombian department of Amazonas. This airport is the gateway to the jungle region of Colombia.
It has a single runway approximately 3,000 meters long by 40 meters wide for the entry of large-capacity aircraft, thanks to its great distance from the capital city. A passenger terminal with three passenger service lounges, one that was for the airline Copa Airlines Colombia with elite partners, but from the moment the airline left the route, the lounge was free. Another room is for the airline LAN Colombia and the state airline Satena, and a last new room, built for the airline Avianca.
The airport has souvenir shops and handicrafts typical of the region, with a waiting room and a landing room, and a control tower for aeronautical control, which has increased in recent years.
It has two hangars for cargo airlines, an A1 jet fuel station for arriving planes and a platform for a capacity of 5 aircraft that has been intervened to improve the airport service. As of 2012, an air base of the Colombian Air Force (FAC) was inaugurated, which ends the runway at the northern head (Numbering 21). To strengthen border security. In the middle of 2015, the remodeling works of the Amazonas airport facilities will begin.
On February 3, 2020, AerCaribe, together with the authorities of the region and Aerocivil, made the first trip to the recently remodeled airport with regular cargo flights to and from Bogotá.
