El Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport

ICAO SAWC50.2803°S 72.0534°W204 m / 669 ftMedium 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 · 2000–2000

2000

OpenedEl Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport opens.

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Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

7/25085° / 265° · LIT

LENGTH2,550 m8,366 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025

530K

626K

621K

603K

598K

676K

230K

329K

723K

897K

902K

893K

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Routes

8 destinations · 3 countries

Year-round6

RGLPiloto Civil Norberto Fernández International AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)242 km150 mi RGAGobernador Ramón Trejo Noel International AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)488 km303 mi USHUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)567 km352 mi CRDGeneral Enrique Mosconi International AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)605 km376 mi EZEEzeiza International Airport - Ministro PistariniArgentina · JetSmart Argentina2,038 km1,266 mi AEPAeroparque Jorge NewberyArgentina · JetSmart Argentina2,068 km1,285 mi

Seasonal2

SCLComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International AirportChile · Sky Airline1,881 km1,169 mi GRUSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportBrazil · Gol Transportes Aéreos3,715 km2,308 mi

Most 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 · country

Passengers893K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#871of 3,974 · #70 South America · #10 AR Longest runway2,550 m8,366 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,201of 29,823 · =123 South America · =23 AR Elevation204 m669 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=24,000of 43,341 · =5,420 South America · #241 AR AgeOpened 20002026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=11,271of 15,079 · =145 South America · #19 AR Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =95 AR

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

2 channels

APPAPP/TWR119.950

GNDGND121.800