Main Terminal
Handles all scheduled passenger flights at Palmerola, mostly international routes to the United States, Mexico, Central America and Spain. Arrivals, immigration, customs and ground transport counters are all in this building.
Palmerola International Airport (XPL) is in the Comayagua valley of central Honduras and is the international gateway for Tegucigalpa, the capital. Since December 2021 it has taken over the international passenger flights that used to land at Toncontín, which now handles domestic flights.
American Airlines, United Airlines, Copa Airlines, Avianca, Aeroméxico and Iberojet fly here. Nonstop routes link Palmerola with Miami, Dallas, Houston, Panama City, San Salvador and Mexico City, and Iberojet connects Honduras with Madrid and Barcelona in Spain.
The airport has one passenger terminal with boarding bridges and a single runway, and it shares the site with the Soto Cano air base. It sits a short drive south of the city of Comayagua, about 15 minutes by road. Tegucigalpa is about 73 km to the southeast along the CA-5 highway, a drive of roughly one hour or a little more depending on traffic.
From the airport, most travelers head to Tegucigalpa, to Comayagua and its colonial center, or north along the CA-5 toward Lake Yojoa and San Pedro Sula.