Yes, you can smoke at Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport (BAQ) — outdoors, on the landside, outside the terminal building. There is no airside smoking area and no indoor smoking room, so smoke before you check in or after you land.
Ernesto Cortissoz serves Barranquilla from the neighbouring municipality of Soledad and is one of Colombia’s busiest Caribbean-coast airports. One passenger terminal building handles both domestic and international traffic; Aerocivil, Colombia’s civil aviation authority, administers the airport.
Where to Smoke
Neither the domestic nor the international side of the terminal has an indoor smoking room, and there is no smoking area past security anywhere in the building — Colombia’s national smoke-free law bans smoking in enclosed public places. That leaves the open air outside the terminal as the only option, so smoke before check-in and security, or after you come through arrivals. The airport does not publish a signed or marked smoking spot, so keep to the outdoor space clear of the entrance doors.
Vaping
Colombia’s Law 2354 of 2024 bans e-cigarettes and heated tobacco in enclosed public places on the same terms as cigarettes. At Ernesto Cortissoz that means vaping is confined to the same outdoor, landside space outside the terminal as smoking.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Indoor | No | No indoor smoking rooms anywhere in the terminal |
| After security / airside | No | No airside smoking area at this airport |
| Outdoor (landside) | Yes | Outside the terminal building |
| Vaping | Outdoor only | Treated like cigarettes under Law 2354 of 2024 |
Medellín’s José María Córdova Airport follows the same rule — see the outdoor landside smoking area at José María Córdova Airport — and our guide to smoking during layovers covers connecting through an airport with no airside smoking area.
For Colombia’s airport smoking rules and vaping law, see our Colombia airport guide.