PIARCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

'Piarco International Airport' is the main airport serving Trinidad and Tobago.
It is in Piarco, a town in northern Trinidad, about 25 km east of the capital city, Port of Spain. Piarco Airport opened on January 8, 1931, to serve Venezuela's ''Compagnie Generale Aeropostale''. Prior to this, the Queen's Park Savannah, the Mucarapo Field, and the Cocorite Docks (for flying boats) were used as airstrips to serve the island. A major expansion of the airport, which included the construction of a new terminal building, was completed in 2001. The old airport building is currently used for cargo handeling. Piarco International Airport is also the primary hub and operating base of Caribbean Airlines.
An admistrative/operations building for the Trinidad and Tobago Air Guard is being construced at the Piarco Air Base. Also, a military airfield will be counstructed near the air base.

Contents

Facilities

Airlines and destinations

Cargo/Courier

Charter Services

External links

Facilities

★ The new North Terminal consist of 35,964 square meters (380,000 square feet) of building with 14 second-level aircraft gates for international flights and 2 ground level domestic gates. The overall layout of the building consists of three main elements: a landside core structure, a single level duty free shopping mall, and a 2-level 'Y' shaped con course.

★ 100 foot cathedral ceilings and glass walls provide passengers and other visitors to the North Terminal with a sense of open space and magnificent views of the Piarco savannah and the nearby Northern mountain range.

★ The public atrium has the largest glass dome in the Caribbean.

★ The airport is large enough to accommodate most international widebody airliners including the Boeing 747, the Boeing 777 and the Airbus A340, medium sized aircraft including the Boeing 737 and Airbus A310 as well as small aircraft such as the DeHavilland Dash 8 and other such turboprop aircraft.

★ The airport layout consists of one main terminal building which includes three concourses. These concourses are not strictly identified as their name depicts but are divided into the following areas; Gates 1-7, Gates 8-14 and the Tobago concourse which serves flights to Tobago.

★ The Air Guard of Trinidad and Tobago is based at Piarco International Airport.

Airlines and destinations

★ Aeropostal (Caracas)

★ American Airlines (Miami)

★ American Eagle (San Juan)

★ Air Canada (Toronto-Pearson)

★ Avior Airlines (Caracas, Porlamar)

★ British Airways (Barbados, London-Gatwick)

★ Caribair (Santo Domingo, Punta Cana) [Seasonal]

★ Caribbean Airlines (Antigua, Bridgetown, Georgetown, Kingston, Miami, New York-JFK, Paramaribo, St. Maarten, Tobago, Toronto-Pearson)

★ Continental Airlines (Houston-Intercontinental, Newark)

★ Conviasa (Porlamar)

★ Copa Airlines (Panama City [starts December 15])

★ Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK [starts December 20])

★ Insel Air (Curacao, Paramaribo/Zanderij)

★ LIAT (Antigua, Bridgetown, Curacao, Georgetown, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent)

★ Rutaca (Caracas, Porlamar) (Charter)

★ Constellation Charter Group operated by Primaris Airlines (Fort Lauderdale, New York-JFK, Georgetown)

★ Skyservice (Toronto-Pearson) (Charter)

★ Surinam Airways (Oranjestad, Paramaribo/Zanderij, Willemstad)

★ Tobago Express (Tobago)

★ Travelspan operated by Xtra Airways (Fort Lauderdale, Georgetown, New York-JFK)

★ Zoom Airlines (Toronto-Pearson)

Cargo/Courier

★ Air Tahoma (Aguadilla,Puerto Rico)

★ Amerijet (Miami)

★ Arrow Air

★ DHL Aviation

★ FedEx

★ United Parcel Service

Charter Services

★ Skyservice (Toronto-Pearson)

★ Air Transat (Toronto-Pearson)

★ Rutaca (Caracas)

★ Travelspan (USA)

External links

★
www.PiarcoAirport.com

www.TrinidadAirport.com

www.TobagoAirport.com
http://www.tntairports.com/ - This is the official Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago website, although it is not yet completed