What are the main airports in El Salvador?

El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (SAL) and Ilopango International Airport (ILS), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.

Which is the busiest airport in El Salvador?

El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (SAL), with 3.4 million passengers (Wikidata, 2022).

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Airports in El Salvador

2 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.

El Salvador has 2 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 1 of them large. The busiest are El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (SAL, 3.4 million passengers, Wikidata, 2022) and Ilopango International Airport (ILS, 8,034 passengers, Wikidata, 2022).

Code	Airport	Serves	Passengers / year	Routes
SAL	El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez	El Salvador	3,442,739	28
ILS	Ilopango International Airport	San Salvador	8,034	—

Busiest routes

Route	To	Distance	Passengers / year
IAH – SAL	Houston, United States	1,942 km	641,479
LAX – SAL	Los Angeles, United States	3,733 km	629,587
IAD – SAL	Washington, United States	3,048 km	617,085
JFK – SAL	New York, United States	3,361 km	323,018
MIA – SAL	Miami, United States	1,646 km	322,230
DFW – SAL	Dallas-Fort Worth, United States	2,302 km	244,152
SAL – SFO	San Francisco, United States	4,248 km	235,127
ATL – SAL	Atlanta, United States	2,285 km	141,575
MAD – SAL	Madrid, Spain	8,675 km	126,948
EWR – SAL	New York, United States	3,349 km	98,541

Questions

El Salvador has 2 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 1 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.