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Santiago Mariño Caribbean International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional del Caribe "Santiago Mariño", IATA: PMV, ICAO: SVMG) is an airport 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west-southwest of Porlamar, the largest city on Isla Margarita, an island in the state of Nueva Esparta in Venezuela.
IATA: "UN Location Codes: Venezuela". United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. September 23, 2009. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011
Andres Miguel Salazar Marcano Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Andrés Miguel Salazar Marcano) (IATA: ICC [1], ICAO: SVIE) is an airport serving Isla de Coche, [2] an island in the Venezuelan state of Nueva Esparta. The airport has been under the regional administration of the state of Nueva Esparta since 1992.
Línea Aérea Conviasa (legally Consorcio Venezolano de Industrias Aeronáuticas y Servicios Aéreos [3]) is the flag carrier of Venezuela, with its headquarters on the grounds of Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, near Caracas. [4]
Juan Griego is a city on the northern side of Isla Margarita, and is the most northern port in Venezuela. It has a population of 28,256 inhabitants (as per census of 2001) and is capital of the Marcano municipality of the Nueva Esparta state.
The airport opened in 1945 as the Maiquetía International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía). [2] The site had been recommended as an appropriate location for an airport by Charles Lindbergh on behalf of Pan Am. [3] The USA subsidised the construction of the airport as part of the Airport Development Program.
From mid 2008 until 2009, Santa Bárbara Airlines operated to Caracas using an ATR-42. Venezolana operated to Porlamar and Caracas from the late 2008 using Jetstream 41s . After its retirement in 2010, it started using Boeing 737-200s and McDonnell Douglas MD-80s until 2016
The airport is named for Antonio Nicolás Briceño , a lawyer and officer during the Venezuelan War of Independence. The runway sits on a broad ridge 65 metres (213 ft) above the city of Valera. The Valera VOR-DME (Ident: VRA ) is located 4.7 nautical miles (8.7 km) off the threshold of Runway 21.