Juan Santamaría International Airport

Juan Santamaría International Airport (MROC) is a medium airport in San José (Alajuela), A, Costa Rica. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code MROC or IATA code SJO. It sits in North America.

Juan Santamaría International Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

Juan Santamaría International Airport lies at 3,021 ft elevation.

Local operations run on America/Costa_Rica. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 3 departing and 2 arriving private-jet legs at MROC across the next six months of operator inventory. 2 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

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Juan Santamaría International Airport is the primary international airport serving San José, the capital of Costa Rica. The airport is located in Alajuela Province, 20 kilometres northwest of downtown San José. It is named after Costa Rica's national hero, Juan Santamaría, a drummer boy who died in 1856 defending his country against forces led by William Walker, an American filibuster. It is the biggest and busiest airport in Costa Rica and second in Central America, transiting more than 5 million passengers per year before COVID.