San Salvador Airport (SAL): terminals, flights

Aeropuerto Internacional Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero (IATA: SAL, ICAO: MSLP) is a network point for San Salvador, El Salvador. Our catalogue shows 0 departing routes and 1 arriving, with the airlines, frequencies and lowest peso (MXN) fares listed below.

Airport facts

SAL carries 1 routes and 2 airlines in our catalogue, totalling 7 weekly departures. Aeropuerto Internacional Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero (ICAO MSLP) serves San Salvador, El Salvador, in the America/El_Salvador zone (UTC−6 in July). Its coordinates (13.4409, -89.0557) are the basis of every distance on this site.

• IATA: SAL
• ICAO: MSLP
• City: San Salvador
• Country: El Salvador
• Time zone: America/El_Salvador
• Coordinates: 13.4409, -89.0557
• Airlines at the airport: 2

Time difference against Mexico City. In July, San Salvador runs 0 h behind the Mexican capital (UTC−6 versus UTC−6). In January the airport operates on UTC−6, so the gap is not constant across the year: daylight saving shifts it. This is the calculation that decides whether a pre-booked ground connection still works.

Coordinates, and why we publish them. 13.4409, -89.0557 is the position from which every great-circle distance on this site is computed, including the ones that set the EU261 compensation band. It is not the distance the aircraft flies — that follows airways and diversions — but the geodesic measure the regulations use. Publishing it lets anyone recompute the figures on these pages.

Airlines at SAL

2 catalogued airlines operate routes to or from SAL: 1 full-service and 1 low-cost, with checked allowance from 0 to 25 kg. Alliances present: SkyTeam. They cover 1 catalogued routes and 7 weekly departures. The table below lists each operator with its type, alliance and checked allowance.

Carriers in our catalogue operating routes to or from this airport, with type, alliance and economy baggage allowance:

How this list is built. These are the airlines appearing in catalogued routes that touch SAL, not the airport’s full directory: a carrier that flies here but not on a pair we cover does not appear. The type — full-service or low-cost — and the allowance come from our own record for each carrier, and where the datum does not exist we say so rather than filling it with a plausible number.

25 kg separate the most generous operator from the leanest at SAL. That gap is what reorders prices once the bag is in: a cheaper base fare on a carrier with no included baggage can land above a full-service one the moment you check a single piece. Compare the total, not the headline figure.

Routes to San Salvador (SAL)

Our catalogue lists 1 routes into SAL, totalling 7 weekly departures and spanning 1,259 to 1,259 km. The busiest is MEX-SAL at ~7 flights a week; 0 of them carry a cached fare, spread across 1 audience profiles. Every row in this section comes from that same corridor catalogue, not from a live search.

What traffic SAL moves. By audience profile, the routes catalogued here split as: Latin American regional corridor (1). That mix explains the airport’s seasonality: family corridors spike in December and Holy Week, leisure ones follow the holiday calendar, and regional ones stay flatter across the year.

Why some rows have no fare. Of the 1 routes listed, 0 returned a price on the collector’s last pass and the rest show a dash. A dash means the automated query got no result for that pair — not that the route is suspended or expensive. For those pairs the reference price comes from the live search, which queries current inventory.

Frequency is the figure that drives price hardest. In a corridor with many weekly departures the seats compete against each other and the fare floor drops; in a thin one the airline does not need to discount to fill. Comparing two SAL routes on fare without looking at frequency therefore misleads: the dear one is not expensive, it simply has half the supply.

Connection tips

SAL concentrates 7 catalogued weekly departures across 2 airlines, in the America/El_Salvador zone. That density is what decides how much slack to leave on a connection: the more of its own services the airline runs here, the more same-day rebooking options exist.

Aeropuerto Internacional Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero runs on the America/El_Salvador time zone; factor the offset from your origin city when planning connections and transfers. The busiest route at SAL is MEX-SAL (~7 flights a week). Book 4–8 weeks ahead for the busiest routes to/from San Salvador; fares climb in December, Holy Week and summer. Each route guide above shows month-by-month seasonality and the lowest peso fare. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

The cheap connection that loses the checked bag. Two separate tickets are not one itinerary: there is no interline agreement, the bag is not checked through to the final destination, and if the first flight lands late the second airline owes you nothing — it sold a different flight. The apparent saving evaporates the moment you buy a same-day replacement. On a single ticket, rebooking and the bag transfer are the carrier’s problem, not yours.

FAQ

The 8 questions on this record are answered from catalogue figures for SAL: routes and weekly frequencies, minimum fares observed by the collector, checked-baggage allowances and the rights regime that applies on each leg. No answer adds data that is not in those sources.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for San Salvador airport? The IATA code is SAL and the ICAO code is MSLP. Aeropuerto Internacional Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero serves San Salvador, El Salvador.

Which airlines operate at SAL? Airlines on our catalogued routes at SAL: Aeromexico, Volaris.

How many routes are there from San Salvador (SAL)? Our catalogue lists 0 departing routes and 1 arriving at SAL — see the tables above.

What time zone is SAL in? SAL operates in the America/El_Salvador time zone.

How many weekly departures does SAL have in this catalogue? Across the catalogued routes touching SAL we count 7 weekly departures over 2 airlines and 1 routes. That is the coverage relevant to Mexican travellers, not the airport’s full directory.

What is the time difference between San Salvador and Mexico City? In July, San Salvador runs 0 h behind Mexico City (UTC−6 versus UTC−6). The gap shifts with daylight saving, so recompute it for your exact date before booking transfers.

What is the longest catalogued route at SAL? Catalogued routes at SAL span 1,259 to 1,259 km great-circle, computed from each airport’s coordinates. That distance drives aircraft type and the applicable compensation band on European sectors.

Which airlines are based at SAL? Avianca run SAL as a base. An airline based here keeps aircraft and crews overnight, so it has more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto the same day.

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Published by FlightsMX Editorial Team. Last verified: May 2026.