FTE
El Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport
El Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport (IATA: FTE, ICAO: SAWC) is a medium airport in El Calafate, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It opened in 2000. It has one runway, 2,550 m (8,366 ft) long, concrete. In 2025 it handled 893 thousand passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 2000–20002000
OpenedEl Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap7/25085° / 265° · LIT
LENGTH2,550 m8,366 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
2014–2025530K
626K
621K
603K
598K
676K
230K
329K
723K
897K
902K
893K
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Routes
8 destinations · 3 countriesYear-round6
RGLPiloto Civil Norberto Fernández International AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)242 km150 miRGAGobernador Ramón Trejo Noel International AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)488 km303 miUSHUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)567 km352 miCRDGeneral Enrique Mosconi International AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)605 km376 miEZEEzeiza International Airport - Ministro PistariniArgentina · JetSmart Argentina2,038 km1,266 miAEPAeroparque Jorge NewberyArgentina · JetSmart Argentina2,068 km1,285 miMost destinationsLíneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE) 4JetSmart Argentina 2Sky Airline 1Gol Transportes Aéreos 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from FTE. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Comandante Armando Tola International Airport” (revision of 11 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
2 channelsAPPAPP/TWR119.950
GNDGND121.800