Aeropuerto Perito Moreno - Jalil Hamer PMQ / SAWP

Self-handled, LADE — confirmed via the airline's own current published schedule (lade.faa.mil.ar) to fly the Comodoro Rivadavia-Perito Moreno-El Calafate-Rio Gallegos routing every Monday and Wednesday (Saab 340 / DHC-6 Twin Otter equipment), matching the airport's own verified record, whose note field says service is provided "solely by LADE" since it resumed Patagonia routes in 2024. No separate third-party ramp handler is documented at this small field, so LADE runs its own turnaround. Phone ••• ("0810-810-LADE") and email confirmed directly on LADE's official contact page.

Operates the aeronautical fuel plant at Aeropuerto "Jalil Hamer" (60,000 L capacity across two 30,000 L stainless-steel tanks for direct into-plane fuelling), built with investment from mining company Newmont Cerro Negro and inaugurated Jul 2023; listed as a current project ("OPERADOR PLANTA DE COMBUSTIBLE — Aeropuerto Jalil Hamer, Perito Moreno Santa Cruz") on the company's own site (domain confirmed live/real, though access-blocked to automated fetch). Availability to visiting/scheduled traffic remains unclear: as of late 2023 LADE needed a special national waiver to use it because it is not a YPF-branded facility, and trip-support databases (ACUKWIK) still listed SAWP as "NO FUEL" as of early 2026 — kept unconfirmed pending direct verification of current commercial access.

Argentina's national aviation security police, with legally mandated screening jurisdiction over airports in the Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos; the airport's own verified operator field confirms PMQ was folded into that system via Decreto 279/2024 (the original draft cited "Decreto 655/2023", which contradicts the airport's own record and has been corrected here). Could not independently corroborate the original draft's specific "Aug 2024 unit stand-up" announcement or its "•••" phone number — PSA's own official contact page (argentina.gob.ar/psa) lists a different number and no 0800 line at all, so phone/email were corrected to PSA's verified official contact instead of repeating the unconfirmed figures. Status kept available on the strength of PSA's categorical national mandate over Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos airports, not a station-specific press release.

However the draft's specific claim of "the new control tower... completed" at Jalil Hamer is directly contradicted by the airport's own verified record, which describes PMQ as an UNCONTROLLED (non-towered) aerodrome still developing its first instrument approach procedure with ANAC/Newmont/ILAC — that claim has been removed rather than repeated. Given the field's minimal traffic (763 pax/yr, 2024) and lack of a tower, some baseline EANA service (weather/NOTAM, remote AFIS) is plausible under its national mandate but unconfirmed — flagged accordingly pending direct verification.