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It was known as Coolidge International Airport until 1985 when it was named in honour of Sir Vere Cornwall Bird (1909–1999), the first prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda. In December 2005, the Antigua and Barbuda Millennium Airport Corporation announced it would invite tenders to construct the first phase of a new passenger terminal ...
Map of Antigua and Barbuda. There are three airports operating in Antigua and Barbuda, a nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Antigua and Barbuda consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands (including Great Bird, Green, Guinea, Long, Maiden and York Islands).
In 1981, Antigua and Barbuda gained independence. In 1985, Coolidge Airport was renamed to V. C. Bird International Airport. The airport has had three terminal buildings, the newest opening on 26 August 2015, CARICOM describing it as the most modern terminal in the Caribbean. [6]
The airport replaced Barbuda Codrington Airport, which closed in the evening of 2 October 2024. The new airport opened in the morning of 3 October 2024. [5] [6] [7] On 12 September 2024, the Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda announced that the airport would be named after Eric Burton and Arthur Nibbs. [8]
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.
BMN Air (formerly ABM Air or Antigua Barbuda Montserrat Air) is an airline of Antigua and Barbuda.Its headquarters is located at its hub at V. C. Bird International Airport serving the country's main island of Antigua with the capital, Saint John's.
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