BBA

Balmaceda Airport

ICAO SCBA45.9160°S 71.6895°W525 m / 1,722 ftMedium airport
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Balmaceda Airport (IATA: BBA, ICAO: SCBA) is a medium airport in Balmaceda, Aysén Region, Chile. It has one runway, 2,501 m (8,205 ft) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 606 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Aeropuerto Balmaceda
09/27100° / 280° · LIT
LENGTH2,501 m8,205 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2025
334K
355K
406K
430K
444K
515K
380K
611K
596K
624K
606K
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Routes

5 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsJetSmart 3LATAM Chile 2Sky Airline 2Aerovías DAP 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BBA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Balmaceda Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers606K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,029of 3,974 · #86 South America · #13 CLLongest runway2,501 m8,205 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,304of 29,823 · =135 South America · #13 CLElevation525 m1,722 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=10,416of 43,341 · =2,031 South America · #48 CLRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =12 CL
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

3 channels
GNDBALMACEDA GND121.900
RDORDO126.900
TWRTWR118.500