El Calafate Airport (FTE)
A working profile of El Calafate Airport in El Calafate, Argentina: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: El Calafate Airport
- Serves: El Calafate, Argentina
- Coordinates: -50.2803, -72.0531
- Elevation: 669 ft
- Time zone: America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos
El Calafate Airport sits inside the air network of Argentina. It shows 4 distinct scheduled departures across 3 destinations and 2 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from FTE
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USH | Malvinas Argentinas Airport | Ushuaia | Argentina | FTE→USH | 2 |
| AEP | Jorge Newbery Airpark | Buenos Aires | Argentina | FTE→AEP | 1 |
| EZE | Ministro Pistarini International Airport | Buenos Aires | Argentina | FTE→EZE | 1 |
Airlines operating at FTE
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from FTE |
|---|---|---|---|
| AR | Aerolineas Argentinas | Argentina | 3 |
| KL | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | Netherlands | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into FTE typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EZE | Ministro Pistarini International Airport | Buenos Aires | Argentina | 2 |
| AEP | Jorge Newbery Airpark | Buenos Aires | Argentina | 1 |
| USH | Malvinas Argentinas Airport | Ushuaia | Argentina | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from FTE on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list FTE to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat FTE as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.