- IATA
- UIO
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- SEQM
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 2013
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 4.3M
- in 2022
History & name
Mariscal Sucre International Airport opened in 2013, 22 km from Quito. Its one runway stretches 4,098 m at an elevation of 7,841 feet, and it handled 4.3 million passengers in 2022.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Mariscal Sucre International Airport
- Serves
- Quito, Ecuador
- City centre
- 22 km from Quito
- Opened
- 2013
- Passengers
- 4.3 million in 2022
- Runways
- 1 runway, 4,098 m
- Elevation
- 7,841 ft (2,390 m)
- Website
- aeropuertoquito.aero ↗
Where it sits
0.1°S, 78.4°W puts UIO in the southern hemisphere, 14 km from the equator and 9,994 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 516th most northerly, which makes it the 146th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 0.1°N, 101.6°E — 281 km from Senai (JHB) in Malaysia, 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 José Joaquín de Olmedo (GYE), 283 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from UIO
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Galápagos, at 1,325 km.
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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