# Gerardo Tobar López Airport (BUN)

> Buenaventura, CO · IATA: BUN · ICAO: SKBU · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `BUN` |
| ICAO | `SKBU` |
| City | Buenaventura |
| Country | CO |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 15 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 3.81963, -76.98980 |

## Description

Satena is the carrier that defines Gerardo Tobar López Airport (BUN/SKBU), a regional field six kilometres south of Buenaventura, the port city whose terminals handled 785,000 TEU in the first half of 2025 — 27 per cent of Colombia's container throughput. The airport is operating, and the airline doubled its Bogotá service from two to four weekly frequencies on 18 March 2026, citing corporate and logistics demand along the foreign-trade corridor. What it does not offer is freight infrastructure: shipments move only as belly cargo on passenger aircraft, with no dedicated cargo terminal, no freighter operations and no verified handling agent on site. The contrast with the waterfront is stark, since Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Buenaventura alone moved 5.9 million tonnes in that same half-year, 37.2 per cent of the national figure. That tonnage travels inland by truck over the roughly 120-kilometre mountain road to Cali; regular rail freight on the Pacific line is not confirmed. Forwarders therefore build air import and export files through Cali's Alfonso Bonilla Aragón (CLO), around 130 road kilometres away, or through Bogotá El Dorado (BOG), Colombia's principal air freight and customs clearance point. Dedicated air cargo customs processing at BUN itself is not confirmed.

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