Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport BAQ / SKBQ

Full-service ground assistance (ramp, passenger service, baggage handling/connections, aircraft parking-movement) for scheduled carriers; SAI (founded 1992, formerly 90%-owned by Avianca, fully acquired by Grupo Talma in 2023 with SIC merger-control approval) is confirmed operating at Barranquilla among 12 Colombian airports it serves (Bogota, Medellin, Cali, Cartagena, Armenia, Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Monteria, Ibague, Neiva, Pereira, Pasto); Talma's own site also lists Barranquilla among its 19 network locations offering \"atencion de aeronaves, carga aerea, mantenimiento en linea.\"

Commercial-aviation ground assistance for national/international airlines; confirmed directly on reg.com.co, which lists Barranquilla (main office at Cartagena Airport 2nd floor, with Barranquilla and Santa Marta as additional Atlantic-coast bases) with over 30 years in Colombian airport services.

Terpel runs a national aviation-fuel business line (Jet Fuel/Avgas, \"suministro al ala\"/into-wing supply) and reportedly operates an EDS Terpel fuel station at/near the airport in Malambo (Atlantico); a specific into-plane Jet A-1 supply contract at BAQ itself could not be independently confirmed from public sources, so marked unconfirmed.

Confirmed: Ecopetrol produced a 1% SAF/Jet A1 co-processed blend (~32,000 barrels at its Cartagena refinery, from palm oil and used cooking oil) for Colombia's first SAF-powered commercial flight, a LATAM departure from Ernesto Cortissoz on 2 Apr 2025, intended to cover roughly 700 subsequent LATAM flights. This was a one-off pilot/limited production run, not a demonstrated standing into-wing supply arrangement at BAQ, so status is marked unconfirmed rather than on_request/available.

Avianca operates significant scheduled service at Barranquilla; standard industry practice is that base/focus-city carriers self-perform transit/line checks on their own aircraft there (self-handled, Avianca), but no BAQ-specific line-maintenance citation was found either - marked unconfirmed. (Note: a separately-listed \"Avianca Barranquilla\" FAA repair station, #MU1Z335K, covers avionics/hydraulics/instruments component work and is excluded here as it belongs to the component_repair pass.)

Airline flight-kitchen catering operator since 1958 (national, international and executive airlines, VIP lounges); confirmed listed as the caterer present at SKBQ/Barranquilla-Ernesto Cortissoz.

Ground support equipment rental and repair services (\"robust infrastructure of ground equipment\") at its Colombian Caribbean-coast bases including Barranquilla, per reg.com.co.

Cargo transfer/handling on platform is an explicitly documented core SAI service (per the 1992-founding/2023-acquisition corporate and regulatory-filing description of SAI's service portfolio: \"rampa, atencion de pasajeros, seleccion de equipaje y conexiones, parqueo y movimiento de aeronaves y transferencia de carga en plataforma\"), applied network-wide including Barranquilla; a Barranquilla-specific cargo-volume figure is not separately published.

Cargo handling with dedicated equipment (\"equipos especiales para el manejo de carga\") at its Barranquilla/Cartagena bases, per reg.com.co.

Colombian cargo airline headquartered at and operating from Barranquilla (confirmed); operates its own dedicated cargo terminal at the Ernesto Cortissoz airport site, self-handling its freight operations in-house. Specific building provenance (former passenger terminal, ~9,000 sqm, two-aircraft capacity) could not be due to search-tool access limits, so treat those specific figures as unconfirmed detail even though the core cargo-terminal/self-handling claim is solid.

Aviation security screening/guarding at Ernesto Cortissoz is provided through the National Police's Airport Station (Estacion Aereoportuaria) in coordination with Metropolitan Police explosive-detection canine units, under Aerocivil regulatory oversight (RAC 160 security plan) - standard model for Colombian airports; in-house/state-provided, no separate private AVSEC contractor identified.

Car-rental counter in the terminal at Ernesto Cortissoz (Wikipedia confirms car-rental offices sit in the public zone just past the Terminal Building; exact floor/company roster sourced from airport rental-car directory listings and not), usable for crew/passenger ground transport.

Car-rental counter at the Ernesto Cortissoz terminal, alongside Avis, Enterprise, Alamo, Galautos and Equirent per airport rental-car directory listings; general presence of a car-rental zone at the terminal is corroborated by Wikipedia, though the specific company roster/floor was not.

General-aviation FBO services (private/commercial flight support); reg.com.co explicitly states FBO service is available at both its Cartagena and Barranquilla bases.

Confirmed listed among FBO/handler services at SKBQ, providing pilot services and aircraft services in addition to fuel-arrangement support for general aviation.