Tocumen International Airport

ICAO MPTO9.0714°N 79.3835°W41 m / 135 ftLarge airport

Tocumen International Airport (IATA: PTY, ICAO: MPTO) is a large airport in Tocumen, Panamá Province, Panama. It opened on 1 Jun 1947. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,050 m (10,006 ft). In 2022 it handled 15.8 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1947–1947

01 JUN 1947

OpenedTocumen International Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

03R/21L030° / 210° · LIT

LENGTH3,050 m10,006 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

03L/21R031° / 211° · LIT

LENGTH2,682 m8,800 ftWIDTH61 m200 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2022

7.0M

8.3M

10.2M

11.6M

12.8M

13.4M

14.7M

15.6M

16.2M

4.5M

9.2M

15.8M

101112131415161718202122

Routes

8 destinations · 8 countries

Year-round7

BOGEl Dorado International AirportColombia · Avianca755 km469 mi CCSMaiquetía Simón Bolívar International AirportVenezuela · Venezolana1,368 km850 mi MEXMexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMexico · Aeroméxico2,411 km1,498 mi MADAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas AirportSpain · Air Europa8,157 km5,069 mi CDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France8,661 km5,382 mi AMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · KLM8,813 km5,476 mi ISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines10,817 km6,721 mi

Seasonal1

YYCCalgary International AirportCanada · WestJet5,642 km3,506 mi

Most destinationsAvianca 1Venezolana 1Aeroméxico 1Air Europa 1Air France 1KLM 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PTY. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Tocumen International Airport” (revision of 20 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers15.8M (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#143of 3,974 · #40 North America · #1 PA Longest runway3,050 m10,006 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,023of 29,823 · =217 North America · #1 PA Elevation41 m135 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,664of 43,341 · =16,216 North America · #15 PA AgeOpened 19472026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,942of 15,079 · =1,856 North America · #2 PA Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · #1 PA

Scale: 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

7 channels

ACCPANAMA CON133.300

ACCPANAMA CON133.000

APPPANAMA APP119.700

CLDCLNC DEL129.800

GNDGND121.900

MISCVFR ADVSY SVC121.200

TWRTWR118.100