Capitán FAP José A. Quiñones González International Airport

ICAO SPHI6.7892°S 79.8283°W30 m / 97 ftLarge airport

Capitán FAP José A. Quiñones González International Airport (IATA: CIX, ICAO: SPHI) is a large airport in Chiclayo, Lambayeque Region, Peru. It opened on 16 Apr 1956. It has one runway, 2,520 m (8,266 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Aeropuertos del Perú. In 2022 it handled 602 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1956–1956

16 APR 1956

OpenedCapitán FAP José A. Quiñones González International Airport opens.

From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

01/19007° / 187° · LIT

LENGTH2,520 m8,266 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

1999–2022

170K

131K

111K

103K

99K

109K

114K

150K

679K

408K

602K

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Routes

6 destinations · 3 countries

Year-round6

TPPCadete FAP Guillermo Del Castillo Paredes AirportPeru · Star Perú383 km238 mi CUEMariscal Lamar AirportEcuador · Aeroregional444 km276 mi LIMJorge Chávez International AirportPeru · JetSmart Perú, LATAM Airlines Peru, Star Perú +1654 km406 mi UIOMariscal Sucre International AirportEcuador · LATAM Airlines Peru759 km472 mi IQTCoronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta International AirportPeru · Star Perú795 km494 mi PTYTocumen International AirportPanama · Copa Airlines1,764 km1,096 mi

Most destinationsStar Perú 3LATAM Airlines Peru 2Aeroregional 1JetSmart Perú 1Sky Airline Peru 1Copa Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CIX. From the Wikipedia article “FAP Captain José Abelardo Quiñones González International Airport” (revision of 9 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers602K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,035of 3,974 · #88 South America · #9 PE Longest runway2,520 m8,266 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,249of 29,823 · #132 South America · #14 PE Elevation30 m97 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,992of 43,341 · =8,146 South America · #158 PE AgeOpened 19562026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,178of 15,079 · #66 South America · #3 PE Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =2 PE

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

GNDGND121.900

RDOCHICLAYO RDO126.900

TWRCHICLAYO APP/TWR118.300