The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC) announced that commercial flights at the Fernando Belaunde Terry Airport, located in the city of Jaén (Cajamarca), will resume in the month of June, after the terminal remained closed for maintenance work. from August 2023.
During his presentation at the Special Multiparty Pro-Inversion Commission of Congress, Minister Raúl Pérez-Reyes reported that the renewed General Management of Corpac, the state company in charge of repairs, will deliver today the NOTAM (Notice To Airmen) of the terminal to the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), so that it can receive 76-passenger Q400 aircraft in the next 15 days.
“Once the NOTAMs are approved, we hope that the two companies will come next week with Q400 aircraft for 76 passengers, to see if they can start commercial flights. If everything works well, these companies have already expressed their interest and we hope that in 15 days let’s have the airport ready to receive flights. I myself am going to come on the first flight,” the minister highlighted.
Pérez-Reyes also specified that, while these efforts are being carried out, an agreement will be signed with the Regional Government of Cajamarca and the district municipality of Jaén to expedite the drainage work on the boundaries of the landing strip.
“Corpac suggests that it would have the maintenance ready on October 23, but I think we will be able to work to reduce those deadlines. The important thing is that the Q400 planes will enter Jaen every day while we do the work on the runway and in October the other lines, such as Latam,” the minister said.
On the other hand, the MTC will approve in the coming weeks a regulation that will allow subsidized flights between locations in the Amazon to also cross into regions. This will allow flights between Chiclayo and Jaén, and between Jaén and Cajamarca, for example.
“In the month of June, the profile of the new Jaén Airport runway will be approved. Once approved in June, we carry out the process of contracting the file, a process that lasts about four months, and then we will prepare the file, which would begin in the fourth quarter of this year, and it would finish in the second quarter of 2025. Then we took five months in the hiring process of who will do the work, and the work would be done in 2026. That year we would have a first-class track” , he highlighted.
A second stage of the project, in mid-2027, includes the preparation of the technical work file for a new passenger terminal, a control tower and taxiways for the new Jaén Airport.
Source: Larepublica
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