Mataveri International Airport
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Mataveri International Airport Isla de Pascua Airport |
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| Airport type | Military/Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | FACH - Fuerza Aérea de Chile (Chilean Air Force) | ||||||||||
| Location | Mataveri | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 69 m / 227 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°09′53″S 109°25′18″W / 27.16472°S 109.42167°WCoordinates: 27°09′53″S 109°25′18″W / 27.16472°S 109.42167°W | ||||||||||
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Mataveri International Airport or Isla de Pascua Airport (IATA: IPC, ICAO: SCIP) is located at Hanga Roa on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Isla de Pascua in Spanish). The most remote airport in the world, Mataveri International Airport is 3,759 kilometres (2,336 mi) from Santiago, Chile (SCL) which has scheduled flights to it on the Chilean carrier LATAM Chile. The runway starts just inland from the island's southeast coast at Mataveri and nearly reaches the west coast, almost separating the mountain of Rano Kau from the rest of the island.
The airport is the main point of entry for thousands of tourists who come to Easter Island to see its Moai statues. The airport also has a transit lounge used by passengers who are continuing onwards to or returning from Papeete, Tahiti, which is also serviced by LATAM Airlines.
Scheduled services from the Chilean mainland started in 1967 with a monthly Douglas DC-6B propliner flight operated by LAN-Chile that took nine hours, using a runway extended and paved for the use as a U.S. base. In 1970, services were upgraded with weekly Boeing 707-320 nonstop jet service to Santiago, Chile. Nonstop service to Papeete, Tahiti was also added during the late 1960s and the frequency doubled to twice-weekly with LAN-Chile providing direct connecting 707 service once a week between Easter Island and Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid in Europe via its Santiago hub. LAN-Chile then replaced its Boeing 707 flights with Boeing 767-200ER jet service and in 1993 was operating twice weekly round trip flights on a routing of Santiago (SCL) - Easter Island (IPC) - Papeete (PPT). The airline later operated Airbus A340 and Boeing 767-300ER wide body jetliners into the airport.
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