Airport type Public Focus city for TAME Code CUE Phone +593 7-286-2203 | Serves Cuenca, Ecuador Elevation AMSL 8,306 ft / 2,532 m Elevation 2,532 m Municipality Cuenca | |
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Operator Corporación Aeroportuaria de Cuenca Website www.aeropuertocuenca.ec Address La Castellana, Cuenca, Ecuador Similar La Posada Cuencana, Secap, Flota Imbabura, Hotel Cuenca, Hotel El Dorado Profiles | ||
Mariscal Lamar International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Mariscal Lamar) (IATA: CUE, ICAO: SECU) is an airport serving Cuenca, a city in the province of Azuay in Ecuador.
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The airport resides at an elevation of 8,306 feet (2,532 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 05/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,234 by 118 feet (1,900 m × 36 m). Since 2002 the ILS system for the airport is available and fully operational. Despite improvements the location of the airport in the middle of the city is a major handicap, as the runway is only barely long enough for large planes landing at this altitude. This has resulted in a few accidents involving planes running off the end of the runway, a restriction on flights in wet weather during much of 2016, and at the end of 2016 the airport completed a resurfacing of the runway to improve traction in wet weather.