The state fuel company Recope is working on two investment projects to supply aviation fuel to Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia.
The first project already being worked on by the Costa Rican Oil Refinery (Recope) is a new plant in the area, whose works are advanced by 26% so far. It also presented a blueprint for the construction of two tanks on the Barranca plant in Puntarenas to support storage.
The low-cost Canadian airline West Jet will start on Monday October 29 regular flights between Liberia in Costa Rica and Toronto in Canada.
There will be two flights a week, on Mondays and Saturdays, and the official launch will occur with the arrival of the first flight to Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia.
Elfinancierocr.com reports that Mario Arguello specialist in Air Transport at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, said:
The low cost Canadian airline Westjet has requested permission to fly from October 2012 two weekly flights between Daniel Oduber Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Westjet is already flying charter flights between the two airports, and has now presented to the Civil Aviation Technical Council (Cetac) of Costa Rica "a request to fly from Toronto to Daniel Oduber Airport on a fixed schedule from 29 October."
Copa Airlines has inaugurated its Panama – Liberia flight, but it is not yet possible to book flights between these locations on the airline’s website.
An article in Nacion.com documents and shows a photograph of what will be Copa Airline’s maiden flight Between Panama City Airport and Daniel Oduber Quiros, in the province of Guanacaste in Costa Rica.
The new Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia in Costa Rica will start operating on January 12.
A press release from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport reads:
Upon completion and receiving the works of the new passenger terminal and related works at the Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of the MOPT has ordered Coriport to authorize the start of operations in the new terminal on 12th January.
The U.S. airline will operate a flight between Minneapolis-Saint Paul and Liberia in 2012.
In a press release, the company announced that the route will have a weekly schedule, departing every Saturday, using Boeing 737-800 aircraft with capacity for 160 passengers.
The flight will arrive in Liberia at 2.30 pm and take off from the Costa Rican airport at 3:20 pm.
The low-cost airline will operate 4 weekly flights between New York and the Costa Rican city of Liberia, on the Pacific coast.
Jet Blue, which already operates a route between Orlando and the Costa Rican capital, San José, announced that the new flight will be available from November 17, 2011.
The route will be operated with Airbus A320 aircraft and will take off from New York at 9.40am to get to Costa Rica at 2.05 pm, while the return flight will take off at 3.00 pm and arrive at 9.00 pm, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Sun Country Airlines announced new international service between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Liberia, Costa Rica.
The new service will be the only non-stop flight from Minnesota to Liberia. The new flights will operate weekly from January 13 through April 13, 2012 departing from and returning to the Twin Cities on Fridays. The seasonal service will offer both first class and coach seating on Sun Country’s Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
From 12 November, the German airline will have scheduled flights every two weeks to the province of Guanacaste.
The flight from Dusseldorf, Germany, will go to Daniel Oduber International Airport, stopping in Cancun, Mexico.
"The Minister of Tourism, Allan Flores, said in a statement that this achievement is the result of negotiations held last March at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin." noted an article in Elfinancierocr.com.
Work on the new Daniel Oduber International Airport in the Guanacaste Province will be completed in November 2011.
The new 23.000 square meter, two-story terminal is being built in an area of 72.500 square meters since October 2010. It features four bridges and three boarding outposts.
It will have capacity to handle 1.500 passengers during peak time.
The IIC approved a loan to Coriport for airport expansion works in Liberia, Costa Rica.
"With this transaction, the IIC, along with BICSA and other international banks, will contribute to private sector development, particularly in rural areas of Costa Rica, driving the infrastructure boom and boosting the tourism industry, marking another milestone in the development of tourism in the country, as it did more than a decade ago when it funded the first five-star hotel in the Guanacaste coast. This is an area with various economic activities which will promote more jobs, generate foreign exchange, new business opportunities and further develop and diversify existing economic activities," said Juan Fonseca, Investment Officer at IIC in charge of the operation.
Starting 6 November the charter flights will fly between Düsseldorf, Germany and Liberia International Airport.
The direct flight operated by the whole sale agent TIU will arrive Saturdays at 3 pm, indicated Tourism Minister, Carlos Ricardo Benavides.
"Costa Rica will be the first country in Central America to receive TIU flights. Elsewhere in Latin America the agency connects Germany with Cancún (Mexico), Montego Bay (Jamaica) as well as Puerto Plata and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic," reports Nacion.com.
Costa Rican government is undecided as to whether to continue with the current expansion project or to construct an entirely new terminal.
In October 2008 the government of Oscar Arias awarded the airport expansion project to the Coriport consortium. In May this year the same government approved a plan to build a new terminal located to the west of the existing one.
In the first four months of 2010, the country’s airports received 52.000 more tourists than in the same period of 2009.
Between January and April 2010, a total 546.514 visitors entered the country through its two international airports: Juan Santamaría and Daniel Oduber.
“The figure is still lower to the one registered during the first four months of 2008: 559.030 international tourists”, reported Nacion.com.
Swissport along with its local partner Inter Airport Services (IAS), will start ground handling services at Juan Santa Maria International Airport (SJO) and Daniel Oduber International Airport (LIR).
The venture will commence effective 1 November 2009. With this licence Swissport and IAS will be able to offer ramp and passenger services including Executive Aviation, Fueling and Aircraft Maintenance with a later possibilities of also expanding into the cargo handling sector, which for the time being, will continue to be managed independently by IAS’s parent company Interexpresso, an established cargo handler in Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
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