Plaine Corail Airport | |
Nativename: | French: Aéroport de Plaine Corail |
Iata: | RRG |
Icao: | FIMR |
Type: | Public |
Operator: | Airport of Rodrigues Ltd - Licensed Aerodrome Operator |
City-Served: | Port Mathurin |
Location: | Plaine Corail, Rodrigues, Mauritius |
Elevation-F: | 93 |
Coordinates: | -19.7575°N 63.3608°W |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 12/30 |
R1-Length-M: | 1,287 |
R1-Length-F: | 4,223 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Source: DAFIF[1] |
Plaine Corail Airport is an airport located near Plaine Corail on Rodrigues, an island dependency of Mauritius. Prior to being renamed in 2017,[2] it was known as Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport, after Gaëtan Duval (1930–1996), a former deputy Mauritian prime minister, who oversaw much of the development of Rodrigues. Airport of Rodrigues Ltd (ARL) was incorporated on 8 February 2000 as a public company.
In 2006, the airport handled 49,500 passengers. It has an asphalt runway which measures 1287x. In addition to Air Mauritius service to Mauritius, Air Austral started seasonal service to Reunion's Pierrefonds airport in 2015, [3] later transferring the service to Saint-Denis de la Réunion in 2022.[4]