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Providenciales International Airport (IATA: PLS, ICAO: MBPV), on the island of Providenciales in the Caicos Islands, is the main international airport serving the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom. It is operated by Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority (TCIAA).
The airport is a regional cargo hub for UPS Airlines and a focus city for Frontier Airlines. The airport has service to cities in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. As of 2019, the airport offers flights to 140 destinations, 102 of which are domestic and 38 of which international.
This is a list of the busiest airports in the Caribbean region by passenger traffic.Statistics are available for almost all the airstrips taken into account. The present list intends to include all the international airports located in the area geographically defined as the Caribbean.
The airport is named for James Alexander George Smith McCartney, the territory's first Chief Minister, who died in a plane crash in New Jersey, United States in 1980. Bahamas Airways was serving the airport by the late 1950s with weekly flights to Nassau via an intermediate stop at Inagua operated with small de Havilland Heron prop aircraft. [2]
Airport IATA Code; Agadir: Agadir–Al Massira Airport: AGA Casablanca: Mohammed V International Airport: CMN Fes: Fès–Saïs Airport: FEZ Marrakech: Marrakesh Menara Airport: RAK Nador: Nador International Airport: NDR Oujda: Angads Airport: OUD Rabat: Rabat–Salé Airport: RBA Tangier: Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport: TNG Tetouan: Sania Ramel ...
Airport/aerodrome operating minima AOP Airport operating plan AP Autopilot: A/P Airplane (US), Aeroplane (ICAO) APARS Automatic pressure altitude reporting system APC Auto pilot computer APIRS Attitude and positioning inertial reference system APOA Airport of arrival APOD Airport of departure APM Aircraft personality module APP Appendix APP
The airport was originally named Patrick Henry Airport, its code PHF representing Patrick Henry Field. The first runway was 2–20, a 3,500-foot (1,100 m) runway, followed by 6–24 (later redesignated as 7–25). Airline service began in November 1949 on Piedmont Airlines and Capital Airlines.
The airport has international service within North America and to Latin America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and East Asia. [13] The airport is mostly in unincorporated areas of Clayton County, [14] but it spills into the city limits of Atlanta, [15] College Park, [16] and Hapeville, [17] in territory extending into Fulton County.