Bora Bora Airport
| Aéroport de Bora Bora | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | NTTB |
| IATA code | BOB |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 3 m (10 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 7 km north of Vaitape |
| Street | no, only boat traffic |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1943 (as a military airfield) |
| operator | AEROPORT DE TAHITI (ADT) |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 285,639 (2016) |
| Air freight | 173 t (2016) |
| Flight movements |
6,597 (2016) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 11/29 | 1505 m × 22 m attached |
The Aéroport de Bora Bora ( IATA : BOB, ICAO : NTTB), also known as Airport Motu Mute, is the airport on the island of Bora Bora in French Polynesia .
location
The airfield is, not unusual for Polynesia, on an otherwise uninhabited, tiny coral island ( Motu ) in the north of the Bora Bora atoll . The runway begins and ends directly on the water.
The airfield has a modern but small terminal building in the customary style. It is located directly on the beach of the lagoon and is connected to a landing stage where the scheduled boat to Vaitape , the main town on the island, docks. Air Tahiti passengers are brought to Vaitape by boat in around fifteen minutes. Luxury hotels pick up their guests with their own boats and bring them directly to the hotel. The journey there can take up to three hours, depending on the location of the hotel.
history
During World War II , Bora Bora became a US supply base in the South Pacific after the attack on Pearl Harbor . The US military built a tank farm, a base for seaplanes and a dirt runway on Motu Mute in the north of the island. After the military withdrew in 1946, the site was temporarily fallow. In 1958 the runway was paved and opened for civil air traffic.
Airlines and destinations
The airport is served by Air Tahiti with small aircraft. International scheduled air traffic does not take place, travelers have to change trains in Tahiti.
National destinations are: Tahiti , Raiatea , Moorea , Huahine and Maupiti .
See also
Web links
- Aeronautical map for Bora Bora Airport on SkyVector.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Statistiques annuelles Aéroport de Bora Bora. In: aeroport.fr. Union des Aéroports Français (UAF), accessed August 15, 2017 (French).
- ↑ eAIP PAC P (section AD-2.NTTB). In: sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr. Service de l'Information Aéronautique (SIA) de la Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne (DSNA) de la Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile (DGAC), July 20, 2017, archived from the original on August 15, 2017 ; accessed on August 15, 2017 (French; English).
