Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport

Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet Airport
Aérodrome de Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet
Aéroport Guadeloupe Pôle Caraïbes
IATA: PTP – ICAO: TFFR
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator CCI de Pointe à Pitre
Serves Pointe-à-Pitre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe
Location Abymes
Hub for
Focus city for Air France[1]
Elevation AMSL 35 ft / 11 m
Coordinates 16°15′51″N 061°31′33″W / 16.26417°N 61.52583°W / 16.26417; -61.52583Coordinates: 16°15′51″N 061°31′33″W / 16.26417°N 61.52583°W / 16.26417; -61.52583
Website guadeloupe.aeroport.fr
Map
PTP

Location in Guadeloupe

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 3,500 11,483 Concrete
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 2,029,080
Passenger Change 13-14 Decrease0.2%
Sources: AIP,[2] UAF,[3] Airport,[4]

Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport or Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet Airport (French: Aérodrome de Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet[2] or Aéroport Guadeloupe Pôle Caraïbes[4] "Caribbean Hub") (IATA: PTP, ICAO: TFFR) is an airport serving Pointe-à-Pitre on the island of Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe, France.

The airport is located in Abymes, 2.4 km (1.3 NM) north-northeast of Pointe-à-Pitre.[2] It is the main hub for Air Caraïbes and Air Antilles Express. Air France has also two Airbus A320 based in Point-à-Pitre for regional flights. It is the largest of the six airports in the archipelago. In 2015, the airport handled 2 089 763 million passengers; it is the second busiest airport in the Lesser Antilles after Queen Beatrix International Airport located in Aruba, and before Grantley Adams International Airport located in Barbados.

Aerial view
An Air Caraïbes Airbus A330 at the gate

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 35 ft (11 m) above mean sea level. It has one paved runway designated 12/30 which measures 3,125 m × 45 m (10,253 ft × 148 ft).[2]

Runway 12/30 is long enough to allow aircraft as large as the A380 to take off and land without difficulty. The airport was also one of the first to handle the first A380 prototype in the 2nd week of January 2006, for 2 days. The same year, the airport celebrated its 40th anniversary.

The former Air Guadeloupe had its head office on the airport property.[5]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinationsTerminal
Air Antilles Express Antigua, Dominica–Douglas–Charles, Fort-de-France, Saint Barthélemy, San Juan, Santo Domingo-La Isabela, Santo Domingo, Sint Maarten
Seasonal: Punta Cana 		2
Air Canada Montréal-Trudeau 1
Air Caraïbes Fort-de-France, Paris-Orly, Saint Lucia-Vigie, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten, Santo Domingo 1, 2
Air France Cayenne, Fort-de-France, Miami, Paris-Orly, Port-au-Prince 1, 2
Air Transat Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau 1
American Airlines Miami 1
American Eagle Miami 1
Corsair International Paris-Orly 1
LIAT Antigua, Barbados, Dominica–Douglas–Charles 2
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Baltimore, Boston, New York-JFK 1
Seaborne Airlines San Juan 2
Servicios Aéreos Profesionales Punta Cana 2
Winair Dominica–Douglas–Charles 2
XL Airways France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 1

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Amerijet InternationalMiami

References

  1. ↑ "Air France, un acteur régional majeur dans la Caraïbe, Septembre 2013" (PDF). Corporate.airfrance.com. Retrieved 2014-09-30.
  2. 1 2 3 4 TFFR – Pointe a Pitre Le Raizet (PDF). AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 28 Apr 2016.
  3. ↑ (French) Aéroport de Pointe-à-Pitre – Le Raizet at Union des Aéroports Français
  4. 1 2 (French) Aéroport Guadeloupe Pôle Caraïbes, official site
  5. ↑ "World Airline Directory." Flight International. 26 March 1988. 41. "Head Office: Aéroport du Raizet, 97110 Abymes, Guadeloupe, French West Indies"

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