GUA
La Aurora International Airport
La Aurora International Airport (IATA: GUA, ICAO: MGGT) is a large airport in Guatemala City, Guatemala Department, Guatemala. It opened in 1930. It has one runway, 2,987 m (9,800 ft) long, asphalt. In 2023 it handled 4.3 million passengers.
Timeline
3 events · 1930–19991930
OpenedLa Aurora International Airport opens.
28 APR 1995
DisasterFaucett Peru Flight 705.6 killed
21 DEC 1999
DisasterCubana de Aviación Flight 1216.16 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap02/20017° / 197° · LIT
LENGTH2,987 m9,800 ftWIDTH60 m196 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2012–20232.1M
2.1M
2.2M
2.3M
2.6M
2.8M
2.8M
3.0M
841K
2.1M
3.2M
4.3M
121314151617181920212223
Routes
22 destinations · 6 countriesYear-round17
CUNCancún International AirportMexico · Volaris816 km507 miMEXMexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMexico · Aeroméxico, Volaris1,056 km656 miGDLGuadalajara International AirportMexico · Volaris1,507 km936 miMIAMiami International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,640 km1,019 miFLLFort Lauderdale Hollywood International AirportUnited States · JetBlue Airways1,672 km1,039 miIAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · United Airlines1,782 km1,107 miMDEJose Maria Córdova International AirportColombia · Wingo1,897 km1,179 miBOGEl Dorado International AirportColombia · Wingo, Avianca2,103 km1,307 miDFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Airlines2,140 km1,330 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines2,206 km1,371 miSDQLas Américas International AirportDominican Republic · Arajet2,263 km1,406 miORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · United Airlines3,057 km1,900 miEWRNewark Liberty International AirportUnited States · United Airlines3,307 km2,055 miJFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · Avianca Costa Rica3,321 km2,064 miYYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · Air Canada3,397 km2,111 miLAXLos Angeles International AirportUnited States · United Airlines, Avianca Costa Rica, Alaska Airlines3,532 km2,195 miYULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Air Canada3,778 km2,348 miSeasonal10
BZEPhilip S. W. Goldson International AirportBelize · BermudAir406 km252 miIAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines1,782 km1,107 miMCOOrlando International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines1,809 km1,124 miDFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines2,140 km1,330 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines2,206 km1,371 miIADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · United Airlines2,996 km1,862 miORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · Avianca Costa Rica, American Airlines3,057 km1,900 miLAXLos Angeles International AirportUnited States · Avianca El Salvador3,532 km2,195 miBOSBoston Logan International AirportUnited States · BermudAir3,611 km2,244 miSFOSan Francisco International AirportUnited States · Avianca El Salvador4,048 km2,515 miMost destinationsUnited Airlines 5Frontier Airlines 4Volaris 3American Airlines 3Avianca Costa Rica 3Wingo 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GUA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “La Aurora International Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
6 channelsAFISGUATEMALA RDO126.900
APPCON119.300
ATISATIS126.500
CLDCLNC DEL120.700
GNDGND121.900
TWRTWR118.100