Alcides Fernández Airport is a commercial airport on the Caribbean coast of
Colombia serving to town of Acandí. The airport is considered by residents of the town of
Acandí to be an important link between that community and the rest of Colombia as well as neighboring
Panama. The airport was closed for some time during the early
2000s, as tourism to Acandí suffered a downturn. Acandí's mayor paid $30,000,000 Colombian pesos (approximately $12,500 USD) to enlarge the airport's runway and build better terminal facilities. The Colombian government paid a total of $1,500,000,000 Colombian pesos (approximately $63,500 USD) to aide in the renovation of the airport as part of
Plan Colombia. In
2003, Colombian transportation minister Andres Uriel Gallego and Colombia's Civil Aeronautics minister Juan Carlos Velez re-opened the airport to public flights after renovation was completed.
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