Reunion airport

Réunion Aéroport de La Réunion Roland Garros
Characteristics
ICAO code	FMEE
IATA code	RUN
Coordinates	20 ° 53 '14 "  S , 55 ° 30' 37"  E Coordinates: 20 ° 53 '14 "  S , 55 ° 30' 37"  E
Height above MSL	20 m (66  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	10 km east of Saint-Denis
Basic data
operator	Chamber of Commerce et d'industrie de la Réunion
Terminals	1
Passengers	2,487,348 (2019)
Air freight	34,196 t (2019)
Flight movements	13,161 (2019)
Runways
12/30	3200 m × 45 m asphalt
14/32	2670 m × 45 m asphalt

Réunion International Airport ( French Aéroport de La Réunion Roland Garros , English formerly Gillot Airport ) is a commercial airport on the French island of Réunion off the East African coast in the Indian Ocean. The airport also serves as a military airfield for the French air forces , who call the base Détachement air 181 Réunion (DA 181) "Lieutenant Roland Garros".

It is the main airport on the island. It is located about 10 km east of Saint-Denis on the northern tip of the island. The airport operator is the local Chamber of Commerce ( Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de la Réunion ). The airport was named after the French aviation pioneer Roland Garros , who was born in Saint-Denis in 1888.

Airport infrastructure

Airport layout in July 2017

The airport infrastructure consists of a tower, two asphalt runways and a terminal. The airport is designed for the Airbus A340 , Airbus A380 , Boeing 747 and Boeing 777 models, among others . ILS is only offered for lane 14.

Military use

The base currently houses (2015):

• ET 0/50 "Réunion", a transport group with CN235-300 (since June 2015) and AS355 (since 1992)

There are also some non-flying formations.

Civil use

The airport is served as follows on scheduled services:

• Air Austral (Antananarivo, Bangkok, Dzaoudzi, Johannesburg, Lyon, Mauritius, Moroni, Nosy Be, Noumea (New Caledonia), Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Mahé (Seychelles), Saint-Pierre de la Réunion, Sydney, Toamasina)
• Air France (Paris-Orly)
• Air Madagascar (Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Fort Dauphin, Île Sainte-Marie, Mahajanga, Nosy Be, Toamasina, Toliara)
• Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
• Corsair International (Lyon, Nantes, Paris-Orly, Toulouse)
• XL Airways France ( Marseille )

The airport is the aviation hub of Air Austral (Reunion).

Incidents

• On March 8, 1968 ( GMT ) a Douglas DC-6B of the French Air Force (Armée de l'air) ( registration number 43748 ) flew into a hill. The pilots did not follow the prescribed departure procedure for the night take-off. Of the 17 inmates, 16 were killed.

See also

• List of airports in France

Web links

Commons : Réunion airport  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence (English, French)
• Reunion Island Airport Roland Garros (French)
• Aéroport de La Réunion Roland Garros, Union des Aéroports Français (French)
• DA181 Roland Garros (French)
• Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on June 7, 2020 (French). 
2. ↑ Airline companies. Reunion.Aeroport.fr, accessed on August 29, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Destinations. Reunion.Aeroport.fr, accessed on August 29, 2019 . 
4. ↑ accident report DC-6B Fraf 43748 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on May 15, 2017th