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Today I invite you to tour and get to know the famous Princess Juliana International Airport in Sint Maarten, paradise for aviation fans and lovers.
A few weeks ago I was finally able to visit one of the most sought-after destinations for those of us who follow the airline industry and consider ourselves «AvGeeks» or aviation lovers: St Martin.
Continuing along the route of my travels and with the aim of showing you each of these airports (when you can) I have prepared a new installment where I will show you several interesting facts about this airport, as well as a video tour of a large part of its facilities so that you can get to know it..
If you like aviation as much as I do or if you are a person looking for information about this airport, I am sure that the information that begins now will help you greatly..
Sint Maarten Princess Juliana International Airport
Located in Netherlands, well it's not like that, but if they don't know, This Caribbean island is divided in two with a French side and a Dutch side, which is precisely where this striking air terminal is geographically located..
San Martin in Spanish or Saint Martin on the french side, It is a Caribbean island inhabited by just 43 thousand inhabitants, but year after year it receives more than 2.5 million tourists, show the great tourist attraction and reaffirming the importance that its airport has for its main source of income or contribution to the GDP of both sides of the island.
The main market? USA by capacity and routes: until 10 Destinations in this country have flights to St Martin.
Let's start with a new Air Report touring their facilities so they can get a better idea of what this terminal looks like, although it is under renovation, It helps us to have a general idea of it.:
Information and characteristics
A small airport in the middle of the Caribe can move so many passengers? Yes and the statistics are surprising along with these interesting data:
- Your code THERE IT IS is SXM and the ICAO is TNCM.
- Depending on where you stay, This terminal is located 20 minutes from Philipsburg and 10 minutes from Marigot by taxi.
- is located at 4 altitude meters.
- It began as an airfield for military use by the United States during World War II in 1942.
- It is named after Princess Juliana because of the visit she made to the island in 1944 from Netherlands.
- It is a public airport managed by Princess Juliana Int'l Airport Holding Company N.V..
- Its annual average of passengers is around 1.8 millions.
- It has a runway 2.300 meters long.
- the boeing 747 It was the largest plane that operated here with passengers, now they are the Airbus A330s of Air France and KLM.
- The island has two airports, the other is called Grand Case Airport and is located on the French side with flights to two destinations: Pointe-a-Pitre y St. Jean.
- Here they operate on average 70 Daily flights.
- The most popular plane is the Twin Otter.
- Monthly they operate more than 4.100 flights.
- Son 29 airlines that operate flights.
- They are currently operating 55 routes to and from this airport.
- Three of these are considered domestic towards Saba, St. Eustatius and Curaçao.
- Their flights are headed to 19 different countries in America and Europe.
- The main destination is the United States with up to 10 international routes.
- Sint Maarten is the hub for the airline Winair with seven routes within the Caribbean.
- The route with the most monthly flights is to Saint Barth with 1.684 operations.
- From here you can connect to two Latin American destinations: Santo Domingo and Panama City.
- Public transportation is limited, although there are small buses, but they are not friendly for travelers with suitcases, so it is recommended to hire a transfer or use a taxi.
Would you like to know this airport? Let me know in the comments.
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