Alcides Fernández Airport
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Alcides Fernández Airport (IATA: ACD, ICAO: SKAD) is a commercial airport on the Caribbean coast of Colombia serving to town of Acandi. The airport is considered by residents of the city of Acandi to be an important link between that community and the rest of Colombia as well as neighboring Panama.
The airport was closed for some time during the early 2000s, as tourism to Acandi suffered a downturn. Acandi's mayor paid $30,000,000 Colombian pesos (approximately $12,500 USD) to enlarge the airport's runway and build better terminal facilities. The Colombian government paid a total of $1,500,000,000 Colombian pesos (approximately $63,500 USD) to aide in the renovation of the airport as part of Plan Colombia. In 2003, Colombian transportation minister Andres Uriel Gallego and Colombia's Civil Aeronautics minister Juan Carlos Velez re-opened the airport to public flights after renovation was completed.
Prior to its closing, the airport was served by Aerolineas de Antioquia and West Caribbean Airways, both of which flew 19 seat passenger aircraft to the airport. Currently, only Aerolineas de Antioquia has resumed service to Medellin, as West ceased operations.
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 Alcides Fernández (Acandi) • Alfonso Bonilla Aragón (Cali) • Antonio Nariño (Pasto) • Benito Salas (Neiva) • Camilo Daza (Cúcuta) • El Carano (Quibdó) • El Dorado (Bogotá) • El Edén (Armenia) • El Yopal • Enrique Olaya Herrera (Medellín) • Ernesto Cortissoz (Barranquilla) • Guillermo Léon Valencia (Popayán) • Gustavo Artunduaga (Florencia) • Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (San Andrés Island) • José María Córdova (Río Negro) • La Florida (Tumaco) • La Nubia (Manizales) • La Palma (Valledupar) • La Vanguardia (Villavicencio) • Las Brujas (Corozal) • Los Garzones (Montería) • Matecaña (Pereira) • Mitú • Puerto Inírida (Inirida) • Palo Negro (Bucaramanga) • Puerto Bolívar • Puerto Carreño • Rafael Núñez (Cartagena) • Riohacha • San José del Guaviare • Santana (Cartago) • Santiago Pérez (Arauca) • Simón Bolívar (Santa Marta) • Tres de Mayo (Puerto Asís) • Vásquez Cobo (Leticia) • Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo Airport (Valledupar) |
