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El Salvador International Airport , commonly known as '''Comalapa International Airport''' or its real name '''Cuscatlán International Airport''', is located about 50 km (30 miles) from San Salvador in El Salvador . It was built in the late 1970s to replace its predecessor, Ilopango International Airport , which is now used for military and charter aviation, but there are plans to rehabilitate it as an international airport by 2009. There are also plans to build a new airport on the Salvadoran coast of El Tamarindo, La Union , along with tourist facilities on the beach. The project is in association with the Exedra Group of Italy . AIRPORT INFRASTRUCTURE Comalapa serves as the Main Hub for Grupo TACA . The cargo terminal, located a few metres left of the passenger terminal, handles millions of tons of cargo each year. El Salvador International Airport is located 45 minutes from the city of San Salvador. Excellent roads connect the airport with the city. Many international flights are scheduled every day to all Central America , important North American cities as also the South American city of Lima , Peru . When the airport was built with only 20 gates, its design was for handling around 400,000 passengers a year, but the highly increasing amount of passengers in the last years made the airport to suffer some expansions, on its first phase named AIES I, the airprot gre from 7 airplane parkings to 12, and later the second phase AIES II, expandes the airport from 12 to 17. Even though all these expansions have been made, the airport right now seems to be overcrowded of people. MODERNIZATION PROJECT & EXPANSION El Salvador made an agreement with the government of France to study the structure of the airport in the first semester of 2007. This study will be in charge of ADPI , a french company which is a subsidiary of Paris 's Charles De Gaulle International Airport . One of the most important things that the Government of El Salvador is planning to do is to separate the passengers that come to the country from those who are leaving it. In order to prevent this pollution of passengers, the project involves building a raised highway, as a ceiling for the actual one, being the one up for the passenger who leave and the low highway for the passengers who come. A render of the airport's new design was recently revealed by the McHarry firm of architects and more info can be found here http://www.mcharry.com/html/3-elsal.htm FACTS The airport's modern facilities include duty-free shops, fast food and full-service restaurants, bars, air conditioned areas, tourist facilities, car rental, clean bathrooms, and spacious waiting rooms. With space for 17 airplanes on the main terminal, 3 on the cargo terminal, 5 in Aeroman, and around 20 in the "Long Term Parking" which is runway 18/36 plus one of the world's most modern airport radars, 94.5% of the airport's flights are on time (2005 data). The airport and runway have been closed at least twice in the almost quarter century since opening. They were closed for several hours following the devastating earthquake of 2001, followed up with minor repairs to the east end of the runway. They were closed again for several hours in 2005 due to Hurricane Stan . Although the airport is located near the Pacific Ocean , storms and Hurricane s are not frequent. AIRLINES AND DESTINATIONS Comalapa has one terminal Terminal 1 (International Terminal)
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