José Celestino Mutis Airport guide

José Celestino Mutis Airport (ICAO SKBS) is the air gateway to Bahía Solano, a Pacific-coast municipality in the Chocó Department of Colombia. The town sits on a rainforest coast with no road link to the interior, so most visitors arrive by air. The airport lies about 3 km from the town centre.

The airport has a single asphalt runway, designated 18/36, about 1,200 metres long. That length suits turboprops and small aircraft. SATENA serves the airport from Medellín, Quibdó and Cali with Beechcraft 1900 aircraft that carry 19 passengers. Clic and Moon Flights are also listed among the carriers, and flights from Medellín take about an hour.

A new passenger terminal of more than 2,200 square metres was handed over on 25 September 2026, after a works programme costing about 31,200 million Colombian pesos. It has a check-in area, a commercial area, arrival and departure spaces and administrative offices. It is the first of five planned works. A runway upgrade, a control tower and security works are still to follow. The latest annual traffic figure found is 36,983 passengers and 6,323 aircraft operations in 2014.