Today I invite you to tour and get to know the famous Princess Juliana International Airport in Sint Maarten, he stopsíso for fans and lovers of aviationón.
A few weeks agoáI was finally able to get to know one of the destinations más quoted by those of us who follow the industryérea and consider ourselves «AvGeeks» or aviation loversón: 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 teach youñaré several interesting facts about this airport, as wellén a v tourídeo for a large part of its facilities so that you can get to know it.
If you like aviationón as much as me or if you are a person looking for informationón about this airport, I'm sure the informationón that now begins to serve youá about way.
Sint Maarten Princess Juliana International Airport
Located in Paílow ses, well it's not soí, but if they don't know, this caribbean islandña isá divided in two with a French sideés and one dutchés, which is precisely where geogr is locatedáFically, this striking terminalérea.
San Martín In spañbe it Saint Martin on the french side, It is a Caribbean islandñthe one inhabited by only 43 thousand inhabitants, but what toño a añthe receiptás de 2.5 million tourists, show the great tourist attractioníaesthetic 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 país have flights to St Martin.
Let's start with a new Air Report touring their facilities so they can get a better idea of cówhat does this terminal look like, although it is under renovationón, It helps us to have a general idea of it.:
Informationón and characterístatic
¿A childñor airport in the middle of the Caribe can move so many passengers? Sí and the statesíStatics are surprising along with these interesting facts:
- Are cóI say THERE IT IS is SXM and the ICAO is TNCM.
- Sayúwhere you stay, This terminal is located 20 minutes from Philipsburg and 10 minutes from Marigot by taxi.
- is located at 4 altitude meters.
- Homeó like an airfieldón of military use by the United States during World War II in 1942.
- It is named after Princess Juliana because of the visit she made.ó to the island in 1944 from Paílow ses.
- It is an airport púairport 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 avión más great that operó hereí 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 sideés with flights to two destinations: Pointe-a-Pitre y St. Jean.
- Hereí operate on average 70 Daily flights.
- the grandfatherón más popular is the Twin Otter.
- Monthly they operate más de 4.100 flights.
- Son 29 aerolílines that operate flights.
- They are currently operating 55 routes to and from this airport.
- Three of these are considered doméstatics towards Saba, St. Eustatius and Curaçao.
- Their flights are headed to 19 países different in Américh and Europe.
- The main destination is the United States with up to 10 international routes.
- Sint Maarten is the hub for AerolíWinair line with seven routes within the Caribbean.
- The route with más monthly flights is to Saint Barth with 1.684 operations.
- From hereí can connect to two Latin American destinations: Santo Domingo and Panama Cityá.
- Transportation púwar is limited, although there are smallñthe buses, but they are not friendly for travelers with suitcases, so it is recommended to hire a transfer or use a taxi.
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