Certain parts of Costa Rica
do not have roads and are only accessible by air. Other parts have road
access but are better accessed by air. Generally, you must or should
fly if you want to go to:
Drake Bay (Osa Peninsula
- South Pacific Coast);
Tortuguero Canal (Caribbean
Coast).
While flying is generally
faster than going by road, it still takes time. You must be at the airport
at least 1 hour prior to departure time. When flying, you are limited
to 25 pounds of luggage per person, TOTAL. This is not very much
luggage!
2 small airlines fly within
Costa Rica: Sansa and Nature Air. Both airlines have long track records
for safety and reliability. Both airlines fly to and from San Jose only.
Thus, if you want to fly anywhere in Costa Rica, you must begin and
end in San Jose.
Sansa flies to and from
the San Jose International Airport. Travelair flies from the Tobias
Bolaños Airport in a suburb of San Jose. Both airlines fly small
aircraft with a maximum capacity of about 10 people.
