La Tontouta Airport
| Nouméa Airport - La Tontouta Base aérienne 186 Nouméa Base aéronavale de Tontouta |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | NWWW |
| IATA code | NOU |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 16 m (52 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 52 km northwest of Nouméa |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1941 |
| operator | New Caledonia Chamber of Commerce & Industry Armée de l'air |
| Passengers | 513,642 (2016) |
| Air freight | 4,459 t (2016) |
| Flight movements |
3,901 (2016) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 11/29 | 3250 m × 45 m asphalt |
La Tontouta Airport or Nouméa - La Tontouta Airport ( French : Aéroport de Nouméa - La Tontouta) is the main airport of New Caledonia in the municipality of Païta , about 52 kilometers northwest of the city of Nouméa . In 2006, 415,813 passengers used the airport. The airport is operated by the airport operator Tontouta Air Service (TAS). Aircraft are serviced here by TAS (Tontouta Air Service) and Air Calédonie International. Customs , immigration police , airport police , civil aviation services and a meteorological station are housed at the airport .
It is also used as a military airfield by the French armed forces in New Caledonia. The air forces refer to it as Base aérienne 186 Nouméa and the Navy as Base aéronavale de Tontouta .
history
The airport was created in 1941 by the Forces françaises de l'intérieur and taken over and expanded by the US armed forces after the outbreak of the Pacific War . Between 1969 and 1975 Tontouta was only a reserve site. It was then reactivated, modernized and reopened in 1976. Control was transferred to the French Armée de l'air in 2011 .
Military use
The military area of the airport used (as of 2011) Detachments of the Escadrille 22 with Alouette III and 25F with Falcon 200 Gardian der Aéronavale and the Armée de l'air has a liaison team here, the l'escadron de transport outre-mer (ETOM 00.052) stationed. It is equipped with helicopters ( Fennec and Puma ) and Airbus CN235-200 transporters.
Civil use
Airlines and Destinations
- Aircalin : Auckland , Brisbane , Seoul , Papeete , Tokyo , Osaka , Port Vila , Sydney , Wallis
- Air New Zealand : Auckland
- Air Vanuatu : Port Vila
- Qantas : Brisbane, Sydney
There is no direct connection to France. Air France offers flights with transfers in Tokyo, Osaka or Seoul (codeshare with Aircalin).
Airport facility
The airport is open 24 hours a day. It offers a passenger terminal, a cargo terminal and five aircraft grandstands. Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI), rotating radio beacons (VOR) and Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) are used as navigation aids , the Instrument Landing System (ILS) corresponds to Category I. The approach lighting consists of Runway Edge Lights - High Intensity Runway Lights (HIRL ). The airport fulfills fire class 7 and ICAO category A. The maximum aircraft size specified is a Boeing 747-400 .
Passenger facility
The airport has an annual capacity of 2 million passengers with 13 check-in counters and five gates. There are 320 pitches for short periods and 120 for longer periods. There is also an airport hotel, a post office, a bank with a money changer, various restaurants, cafeterias and bars, a VIP lounge, several shops, a travel agency, several car rental companies (Avis, Budget, Hertz, ACINQ, Thrifty and Nouméa Technic Auto ), two taxi companies and a baby-parent room.
Disabled facilities
The airport is equipped with an entrance for the disabled, ten parking spaces for the disabled, an elevator and a ramp, as well as a toilet for the disabled.
Cargo facility
The cargo area has a bonded warehouse, aircraft maintenance, automatic clearance, a cold store, a deep-freezer, a fresh meat inspection, health officials, an X-ray scanner and nebulization equipment.
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the airport
- Aéroport de Nouméa - La Tontouta on L'Union des Aéroports Français
- Homepage of the French armed forces in New Caledonia
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Statistics on the website of the Ministère de l'écologie, du développement durable et de l'énergie. (PDF; 2.55 MB) (No longer available online.) In: developpement-durable.gouv.fr. Ministère de l'écologie, du développement durable et de l'énergie, archived from the original on April 29, 2017 ; accessed on May 12, 2017 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
