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Buenos Aires Airport

Punta Arenas, Costa Rica

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Elevation

1214 ft

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The Essence of Buenos Aires Airport

BAI

Location

Punta Arenas · P · Costa Rica

Position

9.164°, -83.330° · 1214 ft elev.

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Small regional gateway serving the Buenos Aires Valley, Costa Rica.

Location

Buenos Aires, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Buenos Aires Airport (IATA: BAI, ICAO: MRBA) is a small domestic airport located in Buenos Aires, Puntarenas province, Costa Rica. It serves the Buenos Aires canton in the southern zone of the country, providing air access to a largely rural and agricultural region. The airport primarily handles light aircraft and small regional turboprop operations, connecting the area to San José and other domestic destinations. It plays an important role for communities in the Térraba region where road travel can be lengthy. The facility is modest in scale, typical of Costa Rica's network of regional airstrips managed under the civil aviation authority. It does not handle international commercial traffic.

Terminals

The airport has a single small terminal building suited to light regional and charter traffic.

Getting to & from

Ground access to the airport is primarily by road, with taxis and private vehicles serving the surrounding Buenos Aires canton.

Airlines here

Sansa Air has historically operated scheduled domestic services connecting Buenos Aires to San José's Juan Santamaría Airport.

Notable facts

›Located in the Buenos Aires canton of Puntarenas province, not the Argentine capital.
›Serves an agricultural region known for pineapple cultivation.
›Operated under Costa Rica's Dirección General de Aviación Civil (DGAC).
›The airport's short runway limits operations to light and small turboprop aircraft.
›Provides a critical air link for communities where road travel to San José takes several hours.

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