Augusto C. Sandino International Airport

Augusto C. Sandino International Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Augusto C. Sandino
IATA: MGA ICAO: MNMG
Summary
Airport type	Military/Public
Owner	Government of Nicaragua
Operator	EAAI (Empresa Administradora de Aeropuertos Internacionales)
Serves	Managua
Location	Managua, Nicaragua
Hub for	La Costeña
Focus city for	Conviasa Air Managua
Elevation AMSL	59 m / 194 ft
Coordinates	12°08′29″N 086°10′05″W / 12.14139°N 86.16806°W / 12.14139; -86.16806
Website	www.eaai.com.ni
Map
MGA
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 10/28 2,442 8,012 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 1,627,527 Passenger change 16–17 6.2% Aircraft movements 36,510 Movements change 16–17 0.8%
Source: Nicaraguan AIP,[1] MTI[2]

Augusto C. Sandino International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Augusto C. Sandino) (IATA: MGA, ICAO: MNMG), or ACS, is the main joint civil-military public international airport in Managua, Nicaragua. It is named after Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto Nicolás Sandino (1895–1934) and is located in the city's 6th ward, known locally as Distrito 6. Originally christened Las Mercedes Airport in 1968, it was later renamed Augusto C. Sandino International Airport during the Sandinista government in the 1980s and again in 2001 to Managua International Airport by then-president Arnoldo Alemán. Its name was changed once more in February 2007 to its current name by President Daniel Ortega to honor the revolutionary.^[3] Managua also has an alternative landing strip at Punta Huete Airport. Punta Huete was designed for larger aircraft and thus has a longer landing strip (3,000m vs. MGA's 2,442m). This alternative landing site, however, does not service commercial aircraft. The airport is managed by the state-run Administrative Company of International Airports, more commonly known as the EAAI, given its Spanish name, the Empresa Administradora de Aeropuertos Internacionales.