Aeropuerto Internacional José Martí

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Aeropuerto Internacional
José Martí
JM Havana.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code MUHA
IATA code HAV
Coordinates

22 ° 59 ′ 21 ″  N , 82 ° 24 ′ 33 ″  W Coordinates: 22 ° 59 ′ 21 ″  N , 82 ° 24 ′ 33 ″  W
Height above MSL 64 m (210  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 15 km south of Havana
Street Avenida de la Revolución
Basic data
opening 1930
operator ECASA
Terminals 3
Passengers 1.69 million (2015)
Start-and runway
06/24 4000 m × 45 m asphalt

The Aeropuerto Internacional José Martí ( IATA code : HAV , ICAO code : MUHA ; previously Aéropuerto El Rancho Boyeros ) is the international airport of the Cuban capital Havana and at the same time the largest and most important in the country. In 2015 it handled 1.69 million passengers. It serves as the home base for Cubana , Aerocaribbean and Aerogaviota and is located about 15 kilometers south of the city center. The airport is named after the Cuban national hero and poet José Martí . In the course of a privatization, Aéroports de Paris is to act as operator in the future .

history

Construction of the airport began in 1929. In the 1970s and 1980s, Eastern Bloc airlines such as Aeroflot , Interflug , Czech Airlines and LOT were frequent guests here.

Since the 1990s there have been charter flights to the United States again , for example with Gulfstream International Airlines . After initially only flights from Miami , Los Angeles and New York were permitted, the US government authorized eight further airports to operate charter flights to and from Cuba from the beginning of 2011 as part of the travel facilitation enacted by President Barack Obama .

Terminals

The airport has three terminals: Terminal 1 is used for handling domestic flights, Terminal 2 is used for flights to and from the USA and Terminal 3 is used for handling the rest of international air traffic. Terminal 2 was modernized in 2011. Terminal 3 should follow in 2013.

On November 7, 2013, a fire broke out during construction work at Terminal 3, during which the airport had to be temporarily evacuated.

Airlines and Destinations

In addition to some domestic routes - for example to Cayo Largo del Sur and Camagüey - Havana has numerous direct connections to destinations in North, Central and South America as well as a few routes to Europe. For example, Toronto , Panama City, Nassau and Lima are approached . For a long time, direct connections to the USA were only allowed to be offered as charter to a limited number of customers due to ongoing embargoes ; flights to Canada were and are not affected by this. In the course of normalizing relations between Cuba and the United States and the resumption of diplomatic relations in 2015, many restrictions were significantly relaxed.

Connections to Europe exist, for example, with Condor to Frankfurt am Main , Eurowings from Düsseldorf, Air France to Paris , Edelweiss Air to Zurich , and Virgin Atlantic to London . Lufthansa is offering a codeshare flight from Frankfurt am Main with Copa and a change in Panama. JetBlue and American Airlines plan to offer scheduled flights to the USA from autumn 2016.

incident

On May 18, 2018 crashed Flight 972 of Cubana de Aviación to Holguin shortly after takeoff from Havana. The almost 39-year-old Boeing 737-200 of the Mexican airline Damojh Aerolíneas (brand name: Global Air ) was on the road on behalf of Cubana. More than 100 passengers on the domestic flight were killed.

Web links

Commons : José Martí International Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AIP CUBA MUHA AD 2-13. (pdf) (No longer available online.) In: iacc.gov.cu. Instituto de Aeronáutica Civil de Cuba, May 3, 2012, p. 1 , archived from the original on March 22, 2012 ; accessed on February 17, 2014 (English).
  2. ^ Construirán hotel cerca del Aeropuerto Internacional José Martí , ACN of July 12, 2016
  3. ↑ The French operate Havana Airport. In: n-tv.de. August 4, 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ USA - Cuba non-stop in 30 minutes in: AeroTelegraph of October 13, 2011, accessed on April 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Ongoing growth of Cuban tourism ( memento of July 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , Granma, May 9, 2012
  6. ^ Cuba Purchases New Planes for Domestic Flights , Prensa Latina, February 16, 2013
  7. ↑ Sufre incendio menor terminal aérea de Cuba - Frontera from November 7, 2013
  8. ↑ Controlado incendio en aeropuerto José Martí | Cubanet from November 7, 2013
  9. ↑ The French operate Havana Airport. In: n-tv.de. August 4, 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2016 .
  10. ↑ [1]
  11. ↑ Stefan Eiselin: Boeing 737 crashed on flight from Cubana. aerotelegraph.com from May 18, 2018