bnamericas
24 Mar 2026
Antioquia is awaiting approval from Colombia’s infrastructure agency, ANI, to begin works worth 398 billion pesos (US$107 million) at José María Córdova airport in Rionegro, which would help ease congestion at the department’s main air terminal.
Execution hinges on the signing of an addendum — a document that modifies or supplements an existing contract —, a process that has dragged on for more than three years and is holding up urgent works.
Airplan, which manages the Centro Norte concession — a six-airport package in Colombia, including José María Córdova — will finance the so-called contingency plan with its own resources and revenues from the six airports under its management, according to local media.
The emergency plan includes immediate works to ease congestion at the airport, among them new aircraft aprons, expansion of waiting areas, improvements in check-in and immigration areas, reinforcement of security checkpoints, and minor upgrades in service areas and internal circulation zones.
