Contador Airport PTX / SKPI

CORRECTED from draft: the field is not Aerocivil-administered. Spanish Wikipedia's infobox lists the owner-operator as Gobernación del Huila; local press (La Voz de la Región, 8 Oct 2019) calls it the "aeródromo municipal Contador de Pitalito", with the Gobernación funding a 2019 runway-paving project (approx. COP 1,939 million) and the Alcaldía de Pitalito's technical team managing the works on site. Aerocivil's role found in sourcing is national regulator/authorizer only (e.g. a 2019 cargo-service authorization request was submitted TO Aerocivil, consistent with it being an external approving body, not the operator) — no 'Regional Centro-Sur' Aerocivil directorate administering this field was found. No third-party ground-handling concessionaire is documented, so terminal/apron coordination for the two scheduled carriers (SATENA, Clic Air) defaults to this local administrator; a specific handling contract was not confirmed.

Confirmed as the field's dominant scheduled carrier (daily Bogotá flight, twice-weekly Cali service Tue/Sat per Wikipedia ES/EN route tables). Maintains a local commercial office ("agente comercial zona sur", listed phone •••) — matches the SATENA southern-zone commercial agent (José Ricardo Cotrino Trujillo) named in 2019 local press coverage of this station. With only two scheduled carriers at this small field (34,605 pax/yr) and no third-party handler documented, SATENA turnarounds are inferred self-handled; not independently confirmed.

Confirmed as a genuine scheduled operator at Contador Airport: Clic Air serves Pitalito-Bogotá via the Puente Aéreo (TPA) terminal at El Dorado (Wikipedia ES and EN route tables agree). No third-party ground handler was identified at the field, consistent with the carrier self-handling its own turnarounds; not independently confirmed.

Verified as a genuine, specific SATENA announcement: La Voz de la Región (14 Jan 2019) reports SATENA's southern-zone commercial agent José Ricardo Cotrino Trujillo announcing a Fokker-50 charter cargo service (approx. 5 tonnes/flight) linking Pitalito with Puerto Asís, Puerto Leguízamo, San Vicente del Caguán and Leticia, targeted for a May 2019 start pending Aerocivil route authorization, alongside airport upgrade plans (runway extension, new terminal, fuel storage). Current operational status of this specific service in 2026 was not re-confirmed by recent sources, though SATENA remains the field's dominant carrier.

AVSEC screening/access-control standards at Colombian public-use aerodromes are set nationally by Aerocivil under RAC 17, but day-to-day responsibility at a locally-administered field like this one sits with the airport's operator (Gobernación del Huila / Alcaldía de Pitalito), typically with Policía Nacional (Policía Aeroportuaria) providing physical screening under standard nationwide arrangements. No airport-specific security contractor, dedicated police-aeroportuaria unit, or screening-equipment detail was independently confirmed for Pitalito.