Rodríguez Ballón International Airport guide

Rodríguez Ballón International Airport serves Arequipa, the main city of southern Peru. It sits at about 2,600 metres above sea level, roughly 8 km from the city centre. The airport is named after the aviator Alfredo Rodríguez Ballón and opened in August 1979.

CORPAC owns the airport. Aeropuertos Andinos del Perú has operated it since 2011 under a 25-year concession. A single asphalt runway, 09/27, is 2,980 m long. The passenger hall was expanded in 2013 and gained two jet bridges, the first in service from 20 September 2013.

Traffic is mostly domestic. JetSmart Perú, LATAM Perú and Sky Airline Peru fly to Lima and Cusco. Passenger numbers grew from about 939,000 in 2010 to just under 2 million in 2023, making it one of the busiest airports in Peru. Fog can disrupt flights in some seasons. A planned expansion would raise capacity to about 2 million passengers a year.