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Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport (IATA: CLO, ICAO: SKCL) also known as Palmaseca International Airport is an airport serving Cali, Colombia, and its suburbs.
Alfonso Bonilla Aragón is located in a long, narrow valley that runs from north to south, and is surrounded by mountains up to 14,000 feet (4,000 m) high. This makes landing at the airport notoriously difficult, and has led to many accidents. The airport has one runway, 9,500 feet (3000 m) in length. This runway is paved, and at an elevation of 3,162 feet (962 m). The runway can serve aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 747.
The airport is unique in that it is one of the few secondary airports in Latin America to be opened 24 hours.
On December 20, 1995, American Airlines Flight 965 on route from Miami to Aragon Airport crashed into a mountain near Cali due to a guidance system error which lead to aircraft to a mountain unseen by pilots in the dark.
Airlines
- Aerolineas de Antioquia (Ibagué, Medellín Olaya Herrera)
- Aires (Ibagué, Ipiales, Pereira)
- AeroRepública (Bogotá, Cartagena, San Andrés Island, Panama City)
- American Airlines (Miami)
- Avianca (Bogotá, Madrid, Medellín, Miami, New York-JFK)
- Avianca operated by SAM Colombia (Cartagena, San Andres, Medellín, Pasto, Tumaco)
- Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental)
- Copa Airlines (Panama City)
- SATENA (Guapi, Ipiales, Medellín Olaya Herrera, Pasto, Quibdo, Tumaco)
- TAME (Tulcan)