ESR — Ricardo García Posada Airport

Medium-sized airport in El Salvador, Chile.
IATA code
ESR
ICAO code
SCES
Size
medium
OurAirports class
Passengers
24,798
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · −38.0% on the year before
Nonstop routes
3
With open traffic data
Time zone
UTC−3 / UTC−4
America/Santiago
Elevation
1,597 m
5,240 ft
Runways
1
Longest 2,300 m

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About ESR

Ricardo García Posada Airport is a medium-sized airport serving El Salvador, Chile. 24,798 passengers used it in Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Open traffic data shows 3 nonstop routes from ESR.

JAC Chile (CC0). Sources

Busiest nonstop routes from ESR

Route Distance Passengers / year
ESR → SCL791 km 24,328
ESR → LSC424 km 381
ESR → CPO146 km 89

Passengers on the route, both directions, over the period of each source: US DOT / BTS T-100 (Aug 2025 – Jul 2026) for routes touching the US, Eurostat (2024) for routes reported by European airports, JAC (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026) for routes in and out of Chile. Routes outside these are not counted.

Nearest airports

Code Airport Distance
CPODesierto de Atacama Airport146 km
ANFAndrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport326 km
LSCLa Florida Airport425 km
CJCEl Loa Airport433 km
IRJCapitan V A Almonacid Airport449 km

Distance from ESR to the major hubs

Route Distance Passengers / year
ESR → LHR10,944 km —
ESR → DXB14,569 km —
ESR → CDG10,987 km —
ESR → FRA11,425 km —
ESR → IST12,566 km —
ESR → AMS11,302 km —
ESR → JFK7,423 km —
ESR → ATL6,813 km —
ESR → LAX8,418 km —
ESR → SIN17,164 km —
ESR → HND17,035 km —
ESR → DOH14,202 km —

Runways

Runway Length Width Surface
09/272,300 m 30 mAsphalt

OurAirports (public domain). Sources

Location

El Salvador, Atacama Region, Chile · -26.3111, -69.7652

Map (OpenStreetMap) Wikipedia

Questions

Ricardo García Posada Airport has the IATA code ESR and the ICAO code SCES. Airlines and tickets use the three-letter IATA code; pilots and air traffic control use the four-letter ICAO code.

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