Guanacaste Airport

Guanacaste Airport, officially Daniel Oduber Quirós International, is the principal gateway to the northwest Pacific coast of Costa Rica — the Guanacaste Province tourism corridor that includes Tamarindo, Playa Flamingo, Playa Conchal, Papagayo, and the Rincón de la Vieja and Tenorio national parks. It is the country's second-busiest airport after San José's Juan Santamaría and has systematically captured a growing share of Costa Rican inbound tourism as US carriers have added direct service to serve the upscale resort corridor (Four Seasons Papagayo, Andaz Peninsula Papagayo, Westin Reserva Conchal) and the surf economy. A single 2,750 m (9,022 ft) asphalt runway and a modernized two-level open-air terminal support approximately 70 routes to 50 destinations via 18 airlines. American Airlines, Delta, United, JetBlue, Southwest, Alaska, Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant, Sun Country, and Air Canada and WestJet (from Canada) dominate the scheduled network; Copa provides Latin American connectivity via Panama. The US route network alone covers Miami, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte, Newark, New York JFK, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, Boston, Washington, and more than a dozen other origins — a depth disproportionate to the airport's size and reflective of Guanacaste's concentration of US-oriented resort real estate. LIR's current commercial terminal opened in 2012, replacing a modest original structure. The airport is named for Daniel Oduber Quirós, a former Costa Rican president from Guanacaste. It sits at 82 m (270 ft) elevation on the dry tropical plain east of Liberia, with the Rincón de la Vieja volcano visible to the north. The facility is operated by a private Coriport concession. Traffic reached approximately 2.0M passengers in 2023, the highest in the airport's history.