Capitan Vicente Almandos Almonacid Airport IRJ / SANL

Self-handled by Aerolíneas Argentinas, the sole scheduled carrier at IRJ. Intercargo's own published network covers only 16 Argentine airports (AEP, EZE, COR, MDZ, SLA, TUC, ROS, BRC, USH, NQN, JUJ, IGR, CPC, FTE, RGL, CRD) and La Rioja is NOT among them, so the incumbent state handler is absent from this field.

Authorized by Argentina's Secretaría de Transporte (Disposición 36/2025, per Argentina.gob.ar) to provide general ground/ramp handling services (baggage loading/unloading, marshalling, towing) at 37 Argentine airports including La Rioja (IRJ), as the 8th company licensed to compete with incumbent Intercargo. Trade press as of late 2025/early 2026 noted most newly authorized entrants had not yet begun actual operations at their licensed fields, so an active Swissport station at IRJ specifically is unconfirmed.

National Jet A-1 and Avgas 100LL supplier with aeroplantas (fuel farms) in 50+ airports across all 23 Argentine provinces plus CABA; the fuel plant at Vicente Almandos Almonacid Airport (La Rioja) operates under the YPF brand, commercializing JET A-1 with AVGAS 100LL being added to the product line (per company distributor's own site). Into-plane operations run locally by authorized YPF distributor Leonardo Brigido & Cia SRL.

Into-plane agent; an authorized YPF distributor (founded 1964, La Rioja) that has operated and managed the YPF aviation fuel plant (aeroplanta) at Vicente Almandos Almonacid Airport since 2012, with two fuelling units and hydrant equipment, commercializing JET A-1 to ATA 103 standards and expanding into AVGAS 100LL (company's own website). Note: phone area-code prefix could not be — La Rioja capital's standard area code is normally 3822, not 380; flagged for confirmation.

Aircraft interior/cabin cleaning and lavatory/water servicing are standard components of any airline's own ramp-service bundle for turnarounds; if Aerolíneas Argentinas self-handles at IRJ as inferred above, this would be performed in-house by station staff, but no IRJ-specific confirmation was found.

Ramp ground-support equipment (tow tractors, baggage carts, GPU, steps) would be operated in-house under the same self-handling inference; no separate third-party GSE company identified at this airport and no IRJ-specific confirmation found.

Belly-hold freight and parcel (encomiendas) service of Aerolíneas Argentinas, the sole scheduled carrier at IRJ, via the Aerolíneas Cargo / "Puerta a Puerta" network. No dedicated third-party cargo terminal exists at this airport - Terminal de Cargas Argentina (TCA), Aeropuertos Argentina's cargo-terminal business unit, does not list La Rioja among its stations (Ezeiza, Aeroparque, Mar del Plata, Córdoba, Mendoza, Tucumán, etc.) - so cargo moves through the standard passenger ramp-handling flow rather than a fiscal cargo warehouse. Contact number is the national booking line, not an IRJ-specific station number.

National federal aviation-security authority for Argentina's airport system; maintains a Unidad Operacional de Seguridad Aeroportuaria Preventiva (UOSP) La Rioja unit on-site at IRJ handling passenger/baggage screening and airport guarding (per Argentina.gob.ar/psa regional unit listing). Note: phone area-code prefix could not be — flagged for confirmation alongside the Leonardo Brigido entry.