Eugenio María de Hostos Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Puerto Rico Ports Authority | ||||||||||
| Serves | Mayaguez, Puerto Rico | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 28 ft / 9 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 18°15′20″N 067°08′54″W / 18.25556°N 67.14833°WCoordinates: 18°15′20″N 067°08′54″W / 18.25556°N 67.14833°W | ||||||||||
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2010 passengers from the Puerto Rico Ports Authority |
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| Aircraft operations | 17,900 |
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| Based aircraft | 13 |
| Passengers (2010) | 12,568 |
Eugenio María de Hostos Airport (IATA: MAZ, ICAO: TJMZ, FAA LID: MAZ) is a small public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The airport is named after the celebrated Mayagüez native Eugenio Maria de Hostos. It offers limited, domestic commercial service, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 4,636 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 4,386 enplanements in 2009, and 4,466 in 2010. The airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).
Eugenio María de Hostos Airport used to be the main air gateway to the western region of Puerto Rico, until Rafael Hernández Airport in Aguadilla took over that position.
The airport was served heavily by the Puerto Rican national air carrier, Prinair, during the 1970s and early 1980s. It took the airport three years to get commercial service again once Prinair went bankrupt in 1984. American Eagle opened service from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in 1987, and Eastern Air Lines, not to be outdone by their rival American's feeder carrier, soon began services there too, with their own feeder airline, Eastern Metro Express.
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