| Arenal Airport | |
| Iata: | FON |
| Icao: | MRAN |
| Type: | Private |
| City-Served: | La Fortuna, Costa Rica |
| Elevation-F: | 342 |
| Coordinates: | 10.4694°N -84.5789°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Costa Rica |
| Pushpin Label: | FON |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Costa Rica |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 06/24 |
| R1-Length-M: | 800 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Stat-Year: | 2017 |
| Stat1-Header: | Passengers[1] |
| Stat1-Data: | 13,186 |
| Stat2-Header: | Passenger change 16–17 |
| Stat2-Data: | 51.2% |
| Footnotes: | Source: AIP[2] GCM SkyVector[3] Google Maps[4] |
Arenal Airport is an airport serving La Fortuna, a district in San Carlos Canton, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica. The airport is named after the Arenal Volcano, one of the major tourist attractions in the country.
Arenal Airport is a private-managed airstrip, currently served by daily flights from Quepos and the capital city, San José. Located in the countryside east of La Fortuna, it can be reached by Route 141.
The airport has an asphalt runway commonly served by small aircraft like Cessna 208 Caravan and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter. Approach to Runway 24 crosses over a hangar at the beginning of the runway.
The Fiora non-directional beacon (Ident: FIO) is located 10.1nmi east of the airport. The El Coco VOR-DME (Ident: TIO) is located 37.9nmi southeast of Arenal Airport.[5] [6]
These data show number of passengers movements into the airport, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica's Statistical Yearbooks.
| Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passengers | 5,815 | 4,726 | 3,250 | 5,842 | 6,596 | 5,440 | 8,723 | 13,186 | |
| Growth (%) | 4.33% | 18.73% | 31.23% | 79.75% | 12.91% | 17.53% | 60.35% | 51.16% | |
| Source: Costa Rica's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC). Statistical Yearbooks (Years 2010,[7] 2011,[8] 2012,[9] 2013,[10] 2014,[11] 2015,[12] 2016,[13] and 2017[14]) | |||||||||
| Year | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passengers | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | 37 | N.D. | 10 | 83 | 7,149 | 7,403 | 6,078 | |
| Growth (%) | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | 730.00% | 8,513.25% | 3.55% | 17.90% | |
| Source: Costa Rica's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC). Statistical Yearbooks (Years 2000-2005,[15] 2006,[16] 2007,[17] 2008,[18] and 2009[19]) | |||||||||||