Palisadoes Airport
| Norman Manley International Airport |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | NMIA Airports Limited | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kingston, Jamaica | ||||||||||
| Location | Palisadoes | ||||||||||
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Caribbean Airlines Fly Jamaica Airways |
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| Elevation AMSL | 10 ft / 3 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 17°56′08″N 076°47′15″W / 17.93556°N 76.78750°WCoordinates: 17°56′08″N 076°47′15″W / 17.93556°N 76.78750°W | ||||||||||
| Website | nmia.aero | ||||||||||
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 MKJP
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Source: DAFIF
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| Passengers | 1,502,973 |
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| Aircraft operations | – |
Norman Manley International Airport (IATA: KIN, ICAO: MKJP), formerly Palisadoes Airport, is an international airport serving Kingston, Jamaica and is located south of the island 19 km away from the centre of New Kingston, it is the second busiest airport in the country after Sangster International Airport recording 1,502,973 arriving passengers in 2015. It is a hub for Caribbean Airlines and Fly Jamaica Airways. In 2011 the cash-strapped Jamaican airline Air Jamaica was taken over by the Trinidadian carrier Caribbean Airlines. The airline retained the former routes used, and the airport was named in honour of Jamaican statesman Norman Manley. There are over 130 international flights a week that depart from Norman Manley International Airport. The airport is located on the Palisadoes tombolo in outer Kingston Harbour; it fronts the city on one side and the Caribbean Sea.
Jamaica has always had a vibrant civil aviation industry with the first flight reported in the island on 21 December 1911. This is eight years after the world recorded its first powered flight by the Wright Brothers. Nineteen years later, on 3 December 1930, the first commercial flight, a Consolidated Commodore twin-engine flying boat operated by Pan American Airways (which eventually became Pan American World Airways), landed in Kingston Harbour.
The year 1934 was also another historic period for the nation's aviation industry when Dr. Albert Forsythe and Charles C. Anderson (the godfathers of African American aviation) arrived in Jamaica from Cuba. This was the first time a land plane was arriving in the island by air.
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