Just days after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake shook Colombia on Monday, cross-border air connectivity between the Dominican Republic’s Aerodrom-managed airports and key Colombian travel hubs continues to operate without disruption, according to aviation officials. Luis López, communications director for Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (Aerodom), confirmed that the two Colombian airports that see the highest volume of Dominican flight traffic — Bogotá’s El Dorado International Airport and Medellín’s José María Córdova International Airport — are running full, regular schedules as of the latest update.
Despite the stability on major routes, the seismic event has forced aviation authorities to ground commercial traffic at several regional airports across Colombia. Colombia’s Civil Aeronautics Authority (Aerocivil) ordered a temporary suspension of all commercial operations at airports in Pereira, Manizales, Armenia, Cartago and Buenaventura, as engineering teams conduct urgent inspections to identify potential structural damage that could put passengers and crew at risk. At this time, these closed regional terminals only allow emergency medical evacuation flights and official government aircraft to land or take off.
Additional air travel disruption is in place at Guillermo León de Valencia Airport in Popayán, where operations remain restricted not due to earthquake damage, but due to ongoing hazardous volcanic emissions from the nearby Puracé volcano.
For the immediate future, Aerodom has confirmed that all commercial flights connecting the Dominican Republic to Colombia’s primary travel and economic centers remain fully operational, with no planned cancellations or schedule changes tied to the earthquake or volcanic activity.