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El Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport (FTE)

El Calafate, Argentina · ICAO SAWC · IATA FTE

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El Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport (SAWC)725
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 20 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
El Calafate, Argentina
ICAO code
SAWC
IATA code
FTE
Elevation
669 ft
Longest runway
8,366 ft (7/25)
Runways
1
Size class
Medium
Position
-50.2803, -72.0534

About SAWC

El Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport (FTE) is a medium airport in El Calafate, Argentina, with the ICAO code SAWC. It has one runway, 7/25, 8,366 ft long and 148 ft wide, with a hard surface. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 15 taxiway segments, 2 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 6 airlines have 65 routes through SAWC. Its most frequent links are Buenos Aires (AEP), Ushuaia (USH) and Buenos Aires (EZE).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
7 / 258,366 ft148 ftHardLit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • Aerolineas ARG36 routes
  • Sky SKU3 routes
  • LATAM LAN2 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: FBZ, DSM, JES.

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.