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The name of the airport was officially changed on 6 July 2006 in honour of The Rt Hon. Sir Lynden Pindling (22 March 1929 – 25 August 2000), first Prime Minister of Bahamas (1967 – 1992). Sir Lynden is recognized as the Father of the Nation, having led the Bahamas to majority rule in 1967 as well as full Independence from the United Kingdom ...
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an English-speaking country consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets. It is located at the north-east of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba , Hispaniola ( Dominican Republic and Haiti ) and the Caribbean Sea , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands ...
The airport offers scheduled passenger flights to Nassau and several destinations in Florida as well as regional jet flights nonstop to three major U.S. hubs, Atlanta, Charlotte and Miami in the U.S. In 2007 a new runway was built to allow larger, regional jets to operate from Marsh Harbour. A new airport terminal opened on 27 May 2014.
The airline operates its own passenger terminal and full service maintenance facility at the Grand Bahama International Airport. Western Air's uniformed fleet of EMB145 50-seater jets with one-class cabins are heavily utilized by Bahamian locals and tourists to travel between the city of Nassau and the outer islands, such as Bimini, Exuma, Cat ...
Historically, Rock Sound was served by Pan Am beginning the mid-1960s with Boeing 707 and Boeing 727 jetliner service to Miami and New York JFK Airport via an intermediate stop in Nassau. [2] The airport is one of the very few in The Bahamas to have received such mainline jet service.
LeAir Charter Services Ltd. is a small regional airline based in Nassau, Bahamas, at Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA).The company was founded in 1996. The airline operates scheduled flights within the Bahamas (Nassau, Andros Town, Great Harbour Cay, Mangrove Cay) [2] as well as charters in the Bahamas and the Caribbean.
Governor's Harbour Airport is an airport in Governor's Harbour on Eleuthera in the Bahamas (IATA: GHB, ICAO: MYEM). It is the second most active of the three airports on Eleuthera, and is about 8 mi (13 km) north of the city.
Grand Bahama International Airport (GBIA) (IATA: FPO, ICAO: MYGF) is an international airport in Freeport, The Bahamas.It was privately owned until the government of The Bahamas purchased it in April 29 2021 for one Bahamian dollar, a deal they were able to procure largely due to the devastation from Hurricane Dorian, which almost completely destroyed the airport in 2019.