Raiatea Airport

Aéroport de Raiatea
Characteristics
ICAO code	NTTR
IATA code	RFP
Coordinates	16 ° 43 '23 "  S , 151 ° 28' 1"  W Coordinates: 16 ° 43 '23 "  S , 151 ° 28' 1"  W
Height above MSL	2 m (7  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	1.5 miles northwest of Uturoa
Basic data
opening	1962
operator	AEROPORT DE TAHITI (ADT)
Terminals	1
Passengers	217,031 (2016)
Air freight	187 t (2016)
Flight movements	5,973 (2016)
Start-and runway
07/25	1400 m × 30 m paved

The Raiatea Airport (French Aéroport de Raiatea , IATA : RFP, ICAO : NTTR) is the airport of the island of Raiatea in French Polynesia . Since there was no suitable flat terrain on the island, the airport area was artificially piled up in the lagoon on the northern edge of the island in the village of Uturoa .

The number of passengers, which in most years was between 200,000 and 250,000, rose to 955,377 in 2007 due to an extremely high number of transit passengers.

Airlines and destinations

The local airline Air Tahiti operates regular flights to Bora Bora , Huahine , Maupiti and several times a day to Tahiti , the flight to Tahiti takes about 40 minutes.

See also

• List of airports in France

Web links

• Aeronautical chart for Raiatea Airport on SkyVector.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Statistiques annuelles Aéroport de Raiatea. (No longer available online.) In: aeroport.fr. Union des Aéroports Français (UAF), archived from the original on August 16, 2017 ; Retrieved August 15, 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.   
2. ↑ eAIP PAC P (section AD-2.NTTR). 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).