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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%).
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.
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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.
The airport is served by small regional commercial aircraft and charters. Most visiting aircraft carry fewer than twenty passengers, such as the Canadian-built De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, a common sight throughout the northern West Indies and as a curiosity, the De Havilland DHC-7 is the largest aircraft ever allowed to operate at the airport.
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Tourism in Paris is a major income source. Paris received 12.6 million visitors in 2020, measured by hotel stays, a drop of 73 percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The number of foreign visitors declined by 80.7 percent. [ 1 ]