- IATA
- LIM
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- SPJC
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1960
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 22.9M
- in 2023
History & name
Jorge Chávez International Airport opened in 1960 and is named after Jorge Chávez (1887–1910), a Peruvian aviator. Lima Airport Partners operates it 10 km from Lima; it handled 22.9 million passengers in 2023 and has two runways, the longer 3,507 m.
Named afterJorge Chávez — Peruvian aviator (1887–1910)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Jorge Chávez International Airport
- Serves
- Lima, Peru
- City centre
- 10 km from Lima
- Opened
- 1960
- Operator
- Lima Airport Partners
- Passengers
- 22.9 million in 2023
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,507 m
- Elevation
- 113 ft (34 m)
- Website
- lap.com.pe ↗
Where it sits
12.0°S, 77.1°W puts LIM in the southern hemisphere, 1,337 km from the equator and 8,671 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 559th most northerly, which makes it the 103rd most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 12.0°N, 102.9°E — 217 km from U-Tapao–Rayong–Pattaya (UTP) in Thailand, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos (TRU), 489 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from LIM
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Mexico City, at 4,245 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cusco | CUZ | 586 km | 1h 14m |
| Bogotá | BOG | 1,888 km | 2h 51m |
| Santiago | SCL | 2,462 km | 3h 34m |
| Miami | MIA | 4,219 km | 5h 45m |
| Mexico City | MEX | 4,245 km | 5h 47m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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