New Jorge Chávez International Airport

Wow. Wow. Wow. One of the best airports I had been at. This airport was designed keeping in mind that humans are around using the facility. I was told the airport was opened last June 2025. Everything is new and extremely well designed. Some Area in the airport still under construction but, it does not interfere with its regular operation. Every corner and space is being designed with attention to detail. Two things I have not seen in other airports: the seats inside the airport do not have the dividers between them like many other airports. This means, if you need to get a nap you can do it without any interference (see photo) Just stretch your legs and relax. I noticed that the international gates are private surrounded by glass. Looks very nice. The restrooms are spacious, clean and organized. The duty free area offers a large selection of merchandise very well displayed. Plenty options when it comes with restaurants and coffee shops. We loved everything in this facility.

5-star facility with 3-star service. Transferred here twice recently. 1) No proper transfer channel between domestic and international flights - you have to exit and re-enter the airport. 3) Poor signage and very few staff speak English. 3) Boarding gates announced only one hour before departure, causing large crowds to gather in the central shopping and dining area (seems intentional). Beautiful new terminal, but still a long way to go in terms of passenger experience.

This airport is less than 6 months old and is going through some growing problems. But overall this is a large, clean and well designed facility and the lines moves along fast enough. But they could use few more workers to direct people and stop people from cutting lines.

A very modern airport thatvis easy to navigate around. Arrived for a domestic flight and within 30 minutes got my back checked, ticket and through airport security very efficient. Many options for shopping as well as places to eat.

If you're going to come to this airport as your layaway then I would highly suggest that you make sure it's at least 2 hours because the walk is far. This was my airport to catch my connecting flight to LAX and it was an hour layaway. My flight arrives a little early so it helped out a lot. The walk to just go past customs is far and if there a long line then it might take a while. Then the walk to the connecting gate is another distance where you have to walk through their little mall and then another path.

The new airport is MUCH better than the old one, and has many upgrades that have made it cleaner, sleeker, and more streamlined. A few observations from a North American as we traveled through it a few times over the course of a few weeks: -Immigration/Visa entering could use some work. The lines are long, and apparently they don’t stamp your passport anymore. They “might” post it online through their immigrations website so you can check your status, but ours was never updated. -Bathrooms are great! -There are limited food options when you are waiting before you do security. Great food options after security! -Delta doesn’t have a permanent stall (July 2025), so if you happen to arrive earlier and choose to hang out, restaurant surf, etc., be prepared to do so in the main entrance with limited seating and food options, as you cannot check in. We were told we could not pass security until we checked our bags, which included waiting until 3 hours before our intended flight departure time. -Currency conversion was a breeze. Make sure to ask for some smaller bills you can use. -Uber is available and is reasonably priced. Use it to directly leave the airport if you enjoy Uber. -Charging ports are extremely limited. Portable power banks are a must. -Self Checkout Kiosks work fairly well. Just be aware if you show up too early, there isn’t too much they can do for oh. It looks like they still have some updates left to do, but most of it appears to be complete. Again, a great improvement, just keep an eye out for some of the stuff mentioned above, and you should be good!

You know how your airline tells you to show up 3–5 hours early for your flight, you aim for 1.5 and still spend 45 minutes at your gate watching people buy 400% marked-up candy bars? Do not do this at Lima International Airport. The space is designed to suck all happy memories out of you through a series of procedures and lines so badly thought out you'll question how this country once built irrigation systems through the mountains. First, you'll experience a single highway entrance that requires a U-turn in bumper-to-bumper traffic. This is the new, better entrance to the redesigned terminal, which leaves you to imagine the original was a 17° inclined tar pit. The hundreds of kiosks just don't work, so off you go to one of 7 checkin/bag drop/mini-immigration lines. This will be your first experience of the Jorge Chavez staffing system, wherein for every one (1) employee dedicated to processing passengers through a checkpoint, two (2) employees are in charge of making random lanes, moving passengers through lines, and repeatedly shouting instructions at them. Do not think about how, if every bag drop was staffed with the actual number of employees present, there would be no line. Do not think about how people in the bag drop line don't have bag tags. Do not ask the line makers why the lines exist. Surrender. Embrace bumper-to-bumper traffic. If you experienced a 100+ minute wait on the way in (a universal experience per every foreigner we talked to on our trip), the pleasure is the same on the way out. Outgoing passport control is as follows: line to check your boarding pass, line to scan your boarding pass, line to get to security, line to get to your assigned lane, line in your assigned lane, passport control. There are 6+ lanes, and they don't all go to the same passport control. This system demands 50+ line makers regardless of the number of border agents (in our case, 3). Sometimes, you get the special passport control where they fingerprint you five times before realizing they are matching your prints to some completely different passenger. So then you're holding up the line by 33% while some line maker behind you yells at people to go faster. To where? The stringent security (no hats, no phones, no leaving 3" of space between linees) while ensuring you leave the country is in and of itself enough—the document control bit is irrelevant. Anybody who goes through the humiliation ritual that is Lima International departures is NEVER coming back by choice. Also the shopping sucks, there are like 3 charging ports, and half the bathrooms are broken. Happy travels! Pictured: despair in Lima

Awful. Charging a cell phone was awful. The place looks like a jail with shops. The staff is useless. Whoever was in charge of this project made a killing. A lot of hype. The former airport was better. They should hire me next time. I'll get it right the first time.