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Guadeloupe Maryse Condé Airport, otherwise known as Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport or (French: Aérodrome de Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet (IATA: PTP, ICAO: TFFR) is an international airport serving Pointe-à-Pitre on the island of Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe, France.
Corsair International, legally Corsair S.A., previously Corsairfly and Corse Air International, is a French airline headquartered in Rungis [2] [3] and based at Orly Airport. [4] It is a subsidiary of German investor Intro Aviation (53%) and TUI Group (27%).
CORSAIR N11Y owned by Gary Heck over the Pacific flown by Will Whiteside Photo by Scott Slocum. Photo ship Beech Baron flown by John Maloney. Airworthy F3A-1. 04634 – based at the National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [19] [20] F4U-1A. 17799 – based at Planes of Fame in Chino, California.
The current Air Caraïbes was founded in July 2000 through the merger of various local airlines Air Guadeloupe, Air Martinique, Air Saint Barthélémy, and Air Saint Martin, and was created in response to the air transport needs of the French Caribbean territories. In 2002, the company flew 445,000 passengers and had €68 million in revenues.
The islands of Guadeloupe. This is a list of airports in Guadeloupe. Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean. It is an overseas department of France comprising five main islands: Basse-Terre Island, Grande-Terre, La Désirade, Les Saintes and Marie-Galante.
So prosperous was Guadeloupe at the time that, under the 1763 Treaty of Paris, France forfeited its Canadian colonies in exchange for the return of Guadeloupe. [ 11 ] [ 16 ] Coffee planting began in the late 1720s, [ 17 ] also worked by slaves and, by 1775, cocoa had become a major export product as well.
It is also the prefecture (capital city) of Guadeloupe. [3] The city of Basse-Terre is located on Basse-Terre Island, the western half of Guadeloupe. Although it is the administrative capital, Basse-Terre is only the second-largest city in Guadeloupe, behind Pointe-à-Pitre. Together with its urban area, it had 44,864 inhabitants in 2012 ...
French Guiana [a] is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies.Bordered by Suriname to the west and Brazil to the east and south, French Guiana covers a total area of 84,000 km 2 (32,000 sq mi) [2] [3] [7] and a land area of 83,534 km 2 (32,253 sq mi). [3]