SAL
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (IATA: SAL, ICAO: MSLP) is a large airport in San Salvador (San Luis Talpa), La Paz Department, El Salvador. It opened in 1980. It has one runway, 3,200 m (10,500 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 3.4 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1980–19801980
OpenedEl Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap07/25070° / 250° · LIT
LENGTH3,200 m10,500 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2011–20222.0M
2.1M
2.4M
2.5M
2.7M
3.0M
3.2M
3.4M
3.7M
1.1M
2.5M
3.4M
111213141516171819202122
Routes
19 destinations · 10 countriesYear-round16
GUALa Aurora International AirportGuatemala · Avianca Guatemala203 km126 miSAPRamón Villeda Morales International AirportHonduras · Volaris El Salvador254 km158 miSJOJuan Santamaría International AirportCosta Rica · Avianca Costa Rica652 km405 miPTYTocumen International AirportPanama · Copa Airlines1,161 km721 miMEXMexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMexico · Volaris El Salvador1,258 km782 miMIAMiami International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,651 km1,026 miBOGEl Dorado International AirportColombia · Avianca1,902 km1,182 miIAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · Volaris El Salvador, Frontier Airlines, United Airlines1,949 km1,211 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, Delta Air Lines2,294 km1,425 miDFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Airlines2,310 km1,435 miIADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · Volaris El Salvador3,056 km1,899 miEWRNewark Liberty International AirportUnited States · Volaris El Salvador, United Airlines3,358 km2,087 miLAXLos Angeles International AirportUnited States · Volaris El Salvador, United Airlines3,734 km2,320 miOAKOakland San Francisco Bay AirportUnited States · Volaris El Salvador4,244 km2,637 miMADAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas AirportSpain · Evelop Airlines, Iberia, Air Europa8,665 km5,384 miBCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · Evelop Airlines9,119 km5,666 miSeasonal5
MIAMiami International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines1,651 km1,026 miMCOOrlando International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines1,849 km1,149 miDFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines2,310 km1,435 miIADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines, United Airlines3,056 km1,899 miYULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Air Transat3,842 km2,387 miCargo4
GUALa Aurora International AirportGuatemala · DHL Aero Expreso, FedEx Express203 km126 miPTYTocumen International AirportPanama · DHL Aero Expreso1,161 km721 miMIAMiami International AirportUnited States · Avianca Cargo, LATAM Cargo Colombia, FedEx Express +11,651 km1,026 miUIOMariscal Sucre International AirportEcuador · LATAM Cargo Colombia1,915 km1,190 miMost destinationsVolaris El Salvador 7Frontier Airlines 6United Airlines 4American Airlines 2Evelop Airlines 2DHL Aero Expreso 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SAL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “El Salvador International Airport” (revision of 15 Sep 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 channelsAPPAPP119.900
ATISATIS127.600
CLDCLNC DEL121.250
GNDGND121.700
RDORDO126.900
TWRTWR118.000