Aeropuerto Internacional Gobernador Ramon Trejo Noel (ex Hermes Quijada) RGA / SAWE

Intercargo is Argentina's state-owned ramp/passenger handling company, the default handler for Aerolíneas Argentinas/Austral and other non-self-handling carriers across the AA2000 network (Aerolíneas is ~97% of Río Grande's 2019 traffic). Intercargo's own site would not render (JS-only portal). A live national restructuring is underway as of Aug 2026: government/press coverage (Infobae, La Nación, LM Neuquén, OPI Santa Cruz, 11-13 Aug 2026) confirms Intercargo is exiting Río Gallegos and Comodoro Rivadavia after a failed privatization, with Aerolíneas Argentinas self-handling taking over there. Every source checked names only those two airports; Río Grande does not appear on the affected list, so there is no evidence its status has changed. Kept as the well-established default handler; station-level presence remains unconfirmed rather than invented, and this entry should be re-checked given the restructuring is ongoing.

Upgraded from unconfirmed to available: found a station-specific listing for 'Aeroplanta YPF Aviación (SAWE/RGA)' at Río Grande airport (source: aviation-fuel directory ypfelcruce.com, not YPF's own site), giving a matching address, phone •••, and Jet A-1 into-plane fuelling as the primary product with Avgas 100LL also referenced for piston aircraft. The listing describes a restricted daily operating window (roughly 01:00-16:00 local) requiring advance coordination, and frames YPF as the sole aviation fuel supplier at this airport. YPF's own network page (negocios.ypf.com/aviacion.html) returned an error page both and the prior one, so this rests on a third-party listing rather than YPF's own site — a genuine station-specific match rather than a network-wide default assumption, which is why status is upgraded despite the source caveat. · ~0100-1600 local, daily (per third-party listing; not verified against YPF's own site)

Río Grande sits at 53.8°S with a cold sub-polar oceanic climate (genuine winter icing conditions, unlike most of South America), so aircraft de/anti-icing is a real seasonal requirement here. The ramp handler would normally own/operate this equipment; no station-specific de-icing programme document was found, so treated as plausible-but-unconfirmed rather than invented detail.

Aerolíneas Argentinas/Austral operate the dominant scheduled service at Río Grande (Boeing 737-700/800 and Embraer 190AR, roughly 14 weekly frequencies to Buenos Aires per airport statistics), and mainline carriers of this type typically carry out their own transit/turnaround line checks and defect rectification at domestic outstations. No station-specific in-house maintenance confirmation was found, so listed as in-house/self-handled, unconfirmed at station level rather than invented.

Argentine press covering the Aug 2026 Intercargo restructuring (re: Río Gallegos) describes the company's standard remit as baggage transfer, cargo ('carga'), and ground assistance bundled together, corroborating that cargo handling is normally part of its ramp contract network-wide. No Río Grande-specific cargo volume, contract, or tonnage figure was found, so marked unconfirmed at station level rather than invented.

Station-specific confirmation found: the Spanish Wikipedia infobox for this airport lists 'Cargas: 230 m² (depósito fiscal)' — a 230 m² fiscal cargo warehouse tied specifically to Río Grande's own airport data (not the generic network-wide 'Cargas' menu link cited under flight_support above), operated under AA2000's concession. This is airport-specific infrastructure rather than a group-level claim transferred from another station.

PSA's governing statute, Ley 26.102 de Seguridad Aeroportuaria (sanctioned 31 May 2006), Article 16, places PSA in every airport/aerodrome of the Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos (SNA); text confirmed directly via InfoLeg's official law page and argentina.gob.ar. Río Grande / Gobernador Ramón Trejo Noel is an AA2000-concession airport with scheduled domestic/international service and is part of the SNA, so PSA jurisdiction here follows from the statute rather than an invented claim. PSA's own site returned 404, so inclusion rests on the confirmed statutory text rather than a Río Grande-specific page.

AA2000 holds the concession for Río Grande (confirmed directly on the operator's own site, which redirects www.aa2000.com.ar/rio-grande to aeropuertosargentina.com/rio-grande, and on Wikipedia) and lists 'FBO' among its network-wide 'Otros servicios' menu alongside 'Cargas'. The Río Grande-specific FBO service description could not be retrieved (the airport page is a client-rendered SPA that errors for non-JS fetchers), so scope and hours remain unconfirmed at station level.