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Juan Gualberto Gomez Airport was built in 1989 and inaugurated by Fidel Castro, [3] thus replacing the old Varadero airport located in Santa Marta, currently known as Kawama Airport. The airport was named after a journalist, fighter for the Cuban Independence and black rights activist in Cuba Juan Gualberto Gómez (1854–1933). [4]
Map of Cuba. This is a list of airports in Cuba, grouped by type and sorted by location.. Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean.It is an archipelago of islands located in the northern Caribbean Sea at the confluence with the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.
Abel Santamaría Airport Cuba: Santa Lucía MUSL Joaquín de Agüero Airport (Santa Lucia Airport) Cuba: Santiago de Cuba (Santiago de Cuba) MUCU SCU Antonio Maceo Airport Cuba: Trinidad (Sancti Spíritus) MUTD TND Alberto Delgado Airport Cuba: Varadero MUVR VRA Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport Cuba: Varadero MUKW
The airport is at an elevation of 5 m (16 ft) above mean sea level. [2] It has one runway designated 06/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 1,500 m × 45 m (4,921 ft × 148 ft). [1] The airport is a remnant of the old Varadero airport which was replaced by the new international Varadero airport in the 90's. The runway was shortened and now is ...
Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport, located 16 kilometers west of Varadero and situated west of the peninsula, is Varadero's airport. It is the second-most important airport of the island after José Martí Airport in Havana, and serves international and domestic flights. It was finished in the 1990s and replaced the old Varadero airport.
Varadero Airport may refer to the following airports in Varadero, Matanzas Province, Cuba: Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport, formerly known as Varadero Airport;
José Martí International Airport (IATA: HAV, ICAO: MUHA), sometimes known by its former name Rancho Boyeros Airport, is an international airport located in the municipality of Boyeros, 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of the centre of Havana, Cuba, and is a hub for Cubana de Aviación and Aerogaviota, and former Latin American hub for the Soviet (later Russian) airline Aeroflot. [5]
The airport has won several notable international best airport awards. It won the SkyTrax Best North American Airport award in 2007 and 2010 through 2022, for a record of 12 consecutive years. [7] The airport also made the top 10 list of airports in the world for the first time in 2012, rated at 9th (2012), 8th (2013), and 9th (2014) overall. [8]