El Loa Airport

ICAO SCCF22.4982°S 68.9036°W2,299 m / 7,543 ftMedium airport

El Loa Airport (IATA: CJC, ICAO: SCCF) is a medium airport in Calama, Antofagasta Region, Chile. It has one runway, 3,040 m (9,974 ft) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 2.9 million passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

10/28094° / 274° · LIT · SLOPE 1.9%

LENGTH3,040 m9,974 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2025

734K

1.1M

1.4M

1.3M

1.8M

2.2M

2.7M

2.9M

1112131415162122232425

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

LSCLa Florida AirportChile · LATAM Chile, Sky Airline, JetSmart856 km532 mi SCLComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International AirportChile · LATAM Chile, Sky Airline, JetSmart1,225 km761 mi CCPCarriel Sur International AirportChile · JetSmart1,637 km1,017 mi

Seasonal1

CCPCarriel Sur International AirportChile · LATAM Chile1,637 km1,017 mi

Most destinationsLATAM Chile 3JetSmart 3Sky Airline 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CJC. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “El Loa Airport” (revision of 11 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers2.9M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#478of 3,974 · #32 South America · #2 CL Longest runway3,040 m9,974 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,120of 29,823 · #47 South America · #6 CL Elevation2,299 m7,543 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#358of 43,341 · #95 South America · #9 CL Runways11 · 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

2 channels

APPCALAMA APP120.900

TWRCALAMA TWR118.700