Airport Overview

El Edén International Airport, also called Armeria Airport or Tebaida Airport, is an air terminal that serves the city of Armenia and its surroundings, in the department of Quindío. The El Edén International Airport of Armenia is currently operating (2020) after a major modernization, remodeling and expansion process. The works of this infrastructure are part of the 2030 Aeronautical Strategic Plan, foreseen in the Development Plan, and whose works include a new control tower, international terminal, platform expansion, runway maintenance, taxiways and airport security areas. Likewise, the construction and expansion works of the new international platform were delivered by an additional 14,700 m2, with 3 additional parking positions for type “C” (Charlie) aircraft, going from 4 to 7 available spaces, on a platform that had an initial area of ​​7,000 m². The control tower is 33 meters high, equipped with electrical, communications and navigation equipment and aeronautical information necessary for operation as an international airport.

Currently, three commercial airlines operate, on average, 44 weekly frequencies from this airport on 2 national routes, to Bogotá and Medellín; and one (1) international route to Fort Lauderdale, with 3 weekly frequencies. In 2009 the airport was formally declared, by Aerocivil, International, which means that it is enabled to carry out regular and charter international flights. Spirit Airlines began operating to this terminal from Fort Lauderdale on November 13, 2009.

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Description and Contacts of Key Companies

Avianca Services (Handler) Avianca business unit, specialized in the provision and commercialization of airport services, engineering and maintenance and training to organizations in the aeronautical sector and related, with the support of more than 9 decades of tradition, experience, commitment and the quality seal of the Airline. (+57 1 457 8700)

LASA (Handler) Sociedad de Apoyo Aeronáutico is an organization of the aeronautical sector of Colombia with 25 years of experience in the provision of airport services, aircraft maintenance services and operation of ground equipment. (+57 4 605 1563)

Integrated Airport Services (Handler) Colombian company with more than 30 years of experience in Ground Assistance Services, Passenger Assistance and Operational Dispatch. (+57 1 415 7454)

Civil Aviation. Civil Aeronautics works to guarantee the orderly development of civil aviation, the airline industry and the safe use of Colombian airspace, facilitating intermodal transport and contributing to the improvement of the country's competitiveness.

Antinarcotics Directorate. It contributes to the goals of the National Government in its policy to combat drug trafficking and other offenses, neutralizing activities related and related to this crime, which affect the national and international community.

Migration Colombia. Civil security entity: Autonomous and attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose objective is to exercise the functions of surveillance and immigration control and immigration authority of the Colombian State.

Passenger and Cargo Performance Indicator

Runways

Airport Infrastructure Details

Airport Operating Details

Customs Guidance

According to Article 90 of Decree 2685 of 1999, all means of transport that reach the national customs territory must arrive at the places authorized by the National Tax and Customs Directorate (DIAN).

The transporter or the airport agent that has warehouses in the places of arrival for the transitory handling of the cargo, must obtain the respective authorization of the place by the DIAN in accordance with the provisions of Decree 390 of 2016.

Once the merchandise arrives, the travel documents are received and registered, the merchandise is presented to the customs authority. The merchandise presented is understood to be that of foreign origin related in the cargo manifest (air waybill) that have the entry authorization issued by Civil Aeronautics. The Information of the Cargo Manifest is presented through the Electronic Computing Services and must correspond at least to the following data:

1. Identification of the means of transport
2. Travel data, such as:
   1. Origin of the goods
   2. Destination place
   3. Weight and total quantity of cargo units to be transported
   4. Transport document numbers
   5. Number of packages, weight.
   6. The indication of consolidated cargo.

The information of the transport documents that is presented through electronic computer services, with respect to the transport documents and consolidators, must contain at least the following data:

1. NIT of the consignee (other than that of the temporary or customs warehouse)
2. Tariff subheading
3. Type of load
4. Number and date of the transport document or the consolidating document
5. Quantity of packages, weight and volume, as appropriate
6. Identification of the load unit, when applicable
7. General description of the merchandise
8. Other characteristics of the transportation contract as required by DIAN.

The carrier must deliver the information of the travel documents, through electronic computer services, with a minimum anticipation of 3 hours before the arrival of the means of transport, by air.

At the time of the arrival of the means of transport to the national customs territory, the carrier or his representative will report such fact, through electronic computer services. Upon receipt of the arrival notice, the DIAN will authorize the unloading of the merchandise. For customs purposes, the date of arrival of the merchandise to the national customs territory will be that of the acknowledgment of receipt of the arrival notice through electronic computer services.

The merchandise unloaded at the airport will remain under the responsibility of the carrier or the international freight agent, as the case may be, until it is delivered to the multimodal transport operator or to the consignee, either the authorized warehouse, the declarant, the customs agency, or the user operator of the free zone in which the user whose name is consigned is located, or to whom the transport document is endorsed.

Finally, in the recognition procedure, the conformity between the cargo and the information recorded in the travel documents and the documents that support the commercial operation will be verified, as well as compliance with the requirements set forth in special regulations, without prejudice to the power to practice the diligence of gauging the merchandise, when the Directorate of National Taxes and Customs determines it.

Once the unloading completion report has been submitted, the goods are delivered to a temporary warehouse or a free zone where the user in whose name it is consigned is located or the transport document is endorsed within the following 2 business days .

At that moment, the import declaration (DUA) is presented in the DIAN's computer system and acceptance is given; Next, customs taxes are settled and paid in bank or by electronic transfer. Subsequently, with the confirmation of payment of the declaration in the system, the release of the merchandise is requested in this same medium. The lift can lead to physical or automatic inspection; if it is the first, the DIAN inspector must verify that the physical merchandise agrees with what is stated in documents to finally issue the release and free disposal of the merchandise. In case of being automatic, the release and free disposition are obtained immediately.

Airfield Costs

Navigation Charges

Fuel Service Charges 

For the refueling of JET A-1 fuel, the airport has a Tanker Truck Service. The fuel supply is carried out by private companies such as Terpel and Energizar Aviación and operates from 5:00 AM and 12 AM.

* values may vary, prices subject to variation

Cargo Terminal Charges

The single rate for import charges is USD $ 28, additional charges are charged for the weight of the parcel, for exports the rate is charged per kilo. The Diplomatic Team is regulated by Decree 2148 of 1991 of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.

Air-Bridge Charges

For the use of the boarding bridges of the international piers in the airports administered by AEROCIVIL, they must pay a fee of USD $ 112. The boarding bridges of the national piers at the airports will pay a rate of 6 daily legal minimum wages in force (66SMLDV).

Security

The security service composed of a surveillance company specialized in airport facilities security services, airline security, AVSEC inspection of passengers and staff, Checked baggage inspection with X-ray scanner and cargo security. The airport security agents are in charge of passenger screening, control and detection of hand luggage and hold luggage, as well as access control and verification of the documentation required by the aeronautical authorities.