New Airport in Panama

An airfield was inaugurated in Pedasi, Los Santos Province, facilitating travel to the area.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

From the website Visitpanama.com:
Residents of the district of Pedasi, Los Santos, stated yesterday that the construction of the new airport in the region will contribute to increasing the presence of tourists visiting the area for the white sand beaches and islands that are available.
On Sunday, the Civil Aviation Authority (AAC by its initials in Spanish) opened, with an investment of $ 1.026 million the new Pedasí airfield whose runway is one thousand meters long and 15 meters wide. Further facilities include a boarding platform, passenger terminal and access road.  Recent statistics revealed by the AAC showed that in recent weeks 600 tourists traveled to the area by plane.

 

Analysis on How to Concession Three Airports in Panama

Tuesday, February 5, 2013, La Prensa (article in Spanish)

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Panama is to hire a consultancy company to implement the privatization of airports in Chiriquí, Colón and Rio Hato. CAA will be looking for a consulting firm to determine whether the airports Enrique Malek (David, Chiriqui), Enrique Jimenez (Colon) and Scarlet Martinez (Rio Hato, Cocle) will be managed by a single concessionaire or privatized separately.

Rafael Barcenas, director of the CAA, said that all that is needed now in order to start the privatization is to remove the Executive Decree which transfered the control of these three airports to Tocumen SA, the semi-private company in charge of the expansion of Tocumen International Airport.  Government authorities believe that the management of these airports represent a budgetary burden for Tocumen which is undergoing an expansion process.