Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Enrique Olaya Herrera) (IATA: EOH, ICAO: SKMD) is an airport located in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, south-west of the city of Medellín, which serves regional and domestic flights in the country. Additionally, the airport is also used for a lot of general aviation in Colombia, and features several hangars for charters too. Due to the large number of general aviation and charter flights, regional and national, Olaya Herrera is the second busiest airport in Colombia by number of flights.
Today, it is considered the main regional airport of the country due to the large number of scheduled and charter flights of this type operated to and from the airport. Formerly Medellin International Airport before the construction of the José María Córdova International Airport, located in the municipality of Rionegro, Antioquia, 29 km east of the city of Medellin. Between the two airports in Medellin, there were more than 4.7 million passengers per year, which makes it the second busiest passenger city in Colombia after Bogotá.
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