Jorge Newbery Airpark

Jorge Newbery Airfield (AEP), universally known as Aeroparque, is Buenos Aires's in-city airport and the second-busiest airport in Argentina after Ezeiza (EZE), handling more than 13 million passengers in peak years. Named for Argentine aviation pioneer Jorge Newbery, who made the country's first long-distance balloon flight in 1909, it has served as the domestic aviation core of Aerolíneas Argentinas since 1947 and became the principal intra-Mercosur gateway following a 2023 reconfiguration that restored regional international flights to the close-in field. Around 75 percent of Aerolíneas Argentinas domestic operations now originate at AEP. Aeroparque sits on reclaimed land along the Río de la Plata shoreline barely 2 km (1 mi) north of the Buenos Aires CBD and the Palermo/Recoleta neighborhoods, at an elevation of just 18 ft (5 m). A single 7,710 ft (2,350 m) asphalt runway (13/31) juts out over the river, giving the airport its trademark water-edge approach. A 2021 modernization, carried out while the field was closed for runway resurfacing, rebuilt the terminal into an integrated domestic-plus-regional-international processor with 42 check-in counters, expanded commercial areas and consolidated immigration and customs for flights from Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile and Bolivia. Fourteen airlines link AEP to 57 nonstop destinations, with Aerolíneas Argentinas, Flybondi and JetSmart leading the domestic network to Córdoba, Mendoza, Bariloche, Iguazú, Ushuaia, El Calafate and Salta, and LATAM, Copa, Gol, Sky, Paranair and others flying short-haul international routes to Montevideo, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Asunción, Punta del Este and Florianópolis. Its mix of a riverside urban location, near-exclusive domestic role and restored Mercosur flights keeps Aeroparque one of the most-recognized city-center airports in the Americas (2025).