Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport, previously known as Comalapa International Airport and previous official name El Salvador International Airport is an airport near San Salvador in El Salvador. With about 3 million passengers in 2016, it is the busiest airport in El Salvador.
The airport was built in the late 1970s to replace its predecessor, Ilopango International Airport, which is now used for regional, air taxi, military and charter aviation. The airport entered in operation in 1980, with its first flight being a TACA airliner bound for Guatemala City. In 2014, El Salvador President Mauricio Funes announced the renaming of the airport to Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport. Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture. In 1980, Romero was assassinated.
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