Piarco International Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Trinidad and Tobago | ||||||||||
| Operator | Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago | ||||||||||
| Serves | Trinidad | ||||||||||
| Location | Piarco, Caroni County, Tunapuna-Piarco, Trinidad and Tobago (P.O.S) | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 58 ft / 18 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 10°35′43″N 061°20′14″W / 10.59528°N 61.33722°WCoordinates: 10°35′43″N 061°20′14″W / 10.59528°N 61.33722°W | ||||||||||
| Website | tntairports.com | ||||||||||
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| International Passengers | 1,621,584 |
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| Domestic Passengers | 629,560 |
| In-transit Passengers | 253,325 |
| Total passengers | 2,504,469 |
Port of Spain Piarco International Airport (IATA: POS, ICAO: TTPP), officially Piarco International Airport and frequently shortened to Piarco International, Piarco Airport, or simply Piarco; is an international airport serving the City of Port of Spain, the East-West Corridor, an urban agglomeration of 600,000+ people and is one of two international airports in Trinidad and Tobago, a two-island country in the southwestern Caribbean. The airport is located 30 km (19 mi) east of Downtown Port of Spain, located in the adjacent town of Piarco. It is the seventh busiest airport in the Caribbean in terms of passengers served and third busiest in the English-speaking Caribbean, after Sangster International Airport and Lynden Pindling International Airport. The airport is also the primary hub and operating base for the country's national airline, as well as the Caribbean's largest airline, Caribbean Airlines.
Piarco International Airport has direct scheduled service to destinations in the United States, Canada, Central America, South America and Europe. It is also a significant transit hub for the Southern Caribbean and serves as the primary connection point for many passengers travelling from Guyana.
Piarco Airport opened on 8 January 1931, to serve Venezuela's Compagnie Generale Aeropostale. Before this, the Queen's Park Savannah, the Mucarapo Field, and the Cocorite Docks (for flying boats) were used as airstrips to serve the island.
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