Jorge Chávez International Airport

Jorge Chávez International Airport is the principal international gateway to Peru, located in Callao roughly 7 mi (11 km) northwest of Lima's historic center on a coastal plain beside the Pacific. LIM is consistently the largest and busiest airport in Peru by a wide margin and ranks among the top five passenger hubs in South America, carrying 141 routes to 70 destinations flown by 38 airlines. The airport's strategic position on the Pacific rim of South America — equidistant between North American and Southern Cone markets — makes it one of the continent's most important transfer points and a critical node in the LATAM Airlines network. LATAM Perú maintains its primary hub at LIM, using it as its principal international gateway and domestic backbone. Sky Airline Peru, JetSMART Peru, Star Peru, and LC Peru operate extensive domestic networks, while Avianca, Copa Airlines, Aeroméxico, American, Delta, United, Air Canada, Iberia, Air France, KLM, Air Europa, and British Airways provide the intercontinental long-haul fabric. The route network reaches across North America, all major South American capitals, Europe (Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, London), and Oceania via partner connections, making LIM one of only a handful of Latin American airports with transpacific reach. The airfield sits at 113 ft (34 m) elevation with two parallel concrete runways: 16L/34R at 11,506 ft (3,507 m) and 16R/34L at 11,417 ft (3,480 m). The second runway — opened as part of the USD 2-billion-plus expansion program — and the adjoining new passenger terminal inaugurated in 2025 together tripled the airport's handling capacity and moved LIM into a distinctly higher tier of South American aviation infrastructure. The new terminal is one of the largest single-building air terminals in the Americas. The airport is named after Jorge Chávez, the Peruvian aviator who completed the first flight across the Alps in 1910.