Juan Santamaria International Airport SJO / MROC

Swissport (operating locally as Interairport Services Swissport S.A., a legal entity confirmed via Dun & Bradstreet and Swissport's own 2021 announcement of taking 100% ownership) has provided airport ground services at Juan Santamaria International Airport since November 2009, including ramp and passenger services for airline customers.

Menzies Aviation holds licenses to operate ground handling services at Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO), Costa Rica's largest and primary international gateway, as part of its Latin America expansion.

Universal Aviation Costa Rica operates GAT-SJO, Costa Rica's first dedicated General Aviation Terminal (opened Dec 2019, IS-BAH Stage 2 accredited) at SJO, providing ground handling, CIQ coordination, crew/passenger movement support, flight planning and trip support for business aviation. · 0600-2100 daily, 24 hours available on request

Aerojet de Costa Rica (Aerojet Handling Group) provides end-to-end ground handling for scheduled, charter, ACMI and seasonal commercial operations at MROC/SJO, aligned with IATA/ICAO standards, as well as general aviation FBO services.

Aerologistica S.T. is a ground handling and trip support provider with decades of experience at Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO/MROC), offering fueling coordination, passenger assistance and crew services for commercial, executive and charter flights. · 24 hours

RECOPE, Costa Rica's state petroleum refining/distribution company, operates the fuel storage terminal and into-plane refueling trucks at Juan Santamaria International Airport, supplying commercial aircraft via underground hydrant network and private/general aviation via a dedicated fleet of refueling trucks; the terminal holds INTE/ISO 9001:2015 certification, the first airport fuel terminal in Costa Rica to do so.

Provides fuel coordination services for commercial and private aircraft operating through SJO.

Aerojet lists line maintenance among its service offerings at MROC/SJO; unconfirmed scope/certification details.

COOPESA is an MRO located adjacent to Juan Santamaria International Airport offering heavy maintenance checks, structural modifications, passenger-to-freighter conversions, avionics upgrades and aircraft painting for A320 family, B737 CL/NG/MAX, B757 and Embraer 170/190 aircraft; holds FAA and EASA certificates with capacity for up to seven narrow-body aircraft.

Avionics/instrument shop — back-shop support for avionics LRUs and instruments, published on COOPESA's own site as "Avionics Mods & Upgrades", part of this heavy-MRO's support for A320 Family, B737CL/NG/MAX, B757 and E170/190; company holds FAA and EASA Part-145 approval (EASA.145.0049 — confirmed against an official list of foreign EASA Part-145 approved organisations naming "Cooperativa Autogestionaria de Servicios Aero Industriales, R.L. d/b/a COOPESA, R.L., Costa Rica"), plus DGAC Costa Rica and other national approvals (company states approvals from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, El Salvador, Panama and Bahamas); exact shop class rating unconfirmed.

Interiors/cabin shop — interior refurbishment/reconfiguration for narrowbody/regional-jet interiors, published on COOPESA's own site as "Interior Modifications", an in-house back-shop supporting its heavy-check line; specific seat-shop scope and class rating unconfirmed (site names the service category but does not itemize seat-level work separately).

Battery shop — inspection, maintenance, recharging, capacity testing, return-to-service and installation of aircraft batteries; site names this explicitly as "Taller de baterias de aeronaves"; Costa Rica DGAC Approved Maintenance Organization (company states AMO status dating to 2013, but the specific enabling resolution number and the claim that batteries were its first certified scope could not be independently verified and are omitted here); located Zona Franca BES, Bodega 14-6, Alajuela — confirmed via company contact page, same city as SJO.

NDT shop — non-destructive testing services performed to ASNT methodology (site: "servicio de Ensayos no Destructivos, bajo el estandar ASNT"), under an AS9100/AS9110 quality system independently confirmed via company materials and a company LinkedIn certification announcement; DGAC AMO scope, aviation-specific class/method rating unconfirmed.

Electrical accessory shop — repair and testing of pilot and ground-crew aviation headsets, confirmed on company site ("equipos para reparacion y prueba de Headsets de piloto y personal de tierra") under its component-workshop DGAC AMO scope; class rating unconfirmed.

Avionics/instrument shop — repair and certification of fixed-wing and rotorcraft components, plus instrument/avionics test and calibration services confirmed on company site: altimeter/static-system checks (FAR 91.411), transponder checks (FAR 91.413), Mode A/C/S and RVSM checks, and compass swing; company cites FAA repair-station approval (CN. H6LY106N) and Costa Rica DGAC AMO approval, though the DGAC certificate number is given inconsistently even within the company's own site ("CO/TAC/010" in body text vs. "DGAC OMA-145-010" in its certification badge list) — DGAC approval itself is genuine, exact certificate number and shop class rating unconfirmed; fleet scope is general-aviation (Cessna, Piper, Bell 206, MD500, Eurocopter AS350) rather than airline/transport-category types; located Hangar 38, Tobias Bolanos International Airport (SYQ), Pavas, San Jose — confirmed via company site — roughly 15 km from SJO in the same San Jose metro area, not literally on the SJO field.

Coordinates catering for general aviation flights through the GAT-SJO facility via partner Air Culinaire Worldwide.

Offers gourmet catering menus and wine selection coordination for private/executive flights at SJO.

Swissport manages a modern air cargo warehouse facility at SJO handling import/export freight for airline customers.

Menzies operates air cargo services at SJO, including a cargo facility developed in partnership with Terminales Unidas (TUSA).

Handles cargo flight ground operations at SJO as part of its regional Central America cargo handling network.

Rex Cargo Costa Rica is an IATA-accredited cargo agent handling air freight import/export for carriers operating through Juan Santamaria International Airport; headquartered in La Asuncion de Belen, Heredia, near the airport.

Menzies is described as the only aviation services provider at SJO offering the full suite of ground, air cargo, and aviation security services.

Provides AVSEC (aviation security) coordination as part of its ground handling service bundle at SJO.

Provides around-the-clock aircraft security as part of its ground handling service bundle.

Coordinates ground transportation, hotel bookings and crew lounge access for passengers and crew via the GAT-SJO facility.

Provides trip support, permits/overflight coordination, weather briefings and helicopter/yacht transfer arrangements for general aviation operators.

Provides parking coordination and overflight permit handling for routes through Colombia, Panama, Cuba, Central America and Nicaragua.