Ministro Pistarini International Airport

**Ministro Pistarini International Airport** or also called as **Ezeiza International Airport** is an airport in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Its IATA code is EZE and ICAO code is SAEZ.

It is the direct entrance of long-distance international flights to the country, since the domestic and regional connections operate mostly from the Jorge Newbery Airport, which makes it the largest and most modern air terminal in Argentina.  It recently received a rating of over 8 points out of 10 in the 2019 AirHelp Score, earning it 20th place in this ranking.

It is currently the base of operations for Aerolíneas Argentinas internationally. It is also the headquarters of the Ezeiza Naval Air Station of the Argentine Navy.

Opened in 1949, it was for three years the largest air base in the world. It operates with several airlines. Given its geographical location and market size, an important part of its flights have stopovers in Santiago, São Paulo and Lima.

Here are some of North American carriers that currently serve Ministro Pistarini:
- American Airlines (Flies JFK-EZE and MIA-EZE)
- United Airlines (Flies IAH-EZE)

### Modernization 2017-Current

In January 2017, the Minister of the Interior, Rogelio Frigerio, presented the Advance Passenger Information system that speeds up immigration procedures and obtains accurate information on the criminal record of passengers entering the country.

In March 2018, the Argentine government presented a $15 billion investment plan to transform the Ezeiza International Airport.

## Statistics

||Passengers|Change from previous year|Aircraft operations|Change from previous year|Cargo (metric tons) !! style="width:50px"| Change from previous year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|6,365,989|14.34%|62,048|6.10%|177,358|1.41%|
|6,867,596|7.88%|63,693|2.65%|187,415|5.67%|
|7,487,779|9.03%|70,576|10.81%|204,909|9.33%|
|8,012,794|7.01%|71,037|0.65%|205,506|0.29%|
|7,910,048|1.28%|67,488|5.00%|162,806|20.78%|
|8,786,807|11.08%|65,063|3.59%|212,890|30.96%|
|colspan="7" style="text-align:left;"|_Source: Airports Council International. World Airport Traffic Statistics (Years 2005–2010)_|||||

|Rank|City|Passengers|
| --- | --- | --- |
|1|Santiago, Chile|1,130,000|
|2|Miami, USA|1,001,000|
|3|Lima, Peru|896,000|
|4|Madrid, Spain|815,000|
|5|São Paulo, Brazil|739,000|
|6|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil|654,000|
|7|Bogotá, Colombia|372,000|
|8|Rome, Italy|332,000|
|9|New York City|329,000|
|10|Panama City, Panama|275,000|

## Infrastructure

- Track area: 483,897 m²
- Taxiway area: 298,720 m²
- Platforms: 515,900 m²
- Maintenance area: 15,000 m²
- Hangars: 5
- Landing and take-off runways: 2
- Telescopic sleeves: 20
- Remote positions: 25

The airport has the capacity to serve the Airbus A380 superjumbo in hangar 5.

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (airport)

- **name**: Ministro Pistarini
International Airport
- **nativename**: <small>_Aeropuerto Internacional Ministro Pistarini_
_Aeropuerto Internacional de Ezeiza_</small>
- **image-width**: <!-T- if less than 200 -->
- **image2**: Aeropuerto Ministro Pistarini, Ezeiza, Buenos Aires, Argentina.jpg
- **image2-width**: 250
- **iata**: EZE
- **icao**: SAEZ
- **wmo**: 87576
- **type**: Public
- **owner-oper**: Aeropuertos Argentina 2000
- **city-served**: Buenos Aires metropolitan area
- **location**: Ezeiza, Buenos Aires, Ezeiza, Argentina
- **timezone**: Time in Argentina, Argentina Standard Time
- **utc**: UTC−03:00
- **metric-elev**: Y
- **elevation-f**: 67
- **elevation-m**: 21
- **pushpin map**: Argentina Greater Buenos Aires
- **pushpin label**: **EZE**
- **pushpin map caption**: Location in greater Buenos Aires
- **r1-number**: 11/29
- **r1-length-f**: 10,828
- **r1-length-m**: 3,300
- **r1-surface**: Asphalt
- **r2-number**: 17/35
- **r2-length-f**: 10,187
- **r2-length-m**: 3,105
- **r2-surface**: Asphalt
- **metric-rwy**: y
- **stat-year**: 2018
- **stat1-header**: Passengers
- **stat1-data**: 11,204,000
- **stat2-header**: Passenger traffic change
- **stat2-data**: 8.5%
- **footnotes**: Sources: Aeronautical Information Publication, AIP, EANA, ORSNA, WorldAeroData, Empresa Argentina de Navegación Aérea statistics for 2018