Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport serves
Cusco,
Peru the country's largest tourist attraction. It receives flights from all over
Peru and a few international destinations. Its runway is fully paved. It is named after
Peruvian pilot
Alejandro Velasco Astete who was the first person to fly over the
Andes in 1925 flying to this airport. Later that year, in September, while trying to avoid crashing into spectators in the city of
Puno he crashed and was killed. The airport is the gateway to the city of
Cusco, which is the center of the
South American travel network, and to perhaps the most famous city in ruins in the world,
Machu Picchu. As with most other
Peruvian airports there are many charter flights to the airport from all over the world.
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