Plaine Corail Airport Explained

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]

References

  1. from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  2. https://lexpress.mu/article/309564/rodrigues-laeroport-sir-gaetan-duval-devient-laeroport-plaine-corail
  3. News: 22 May 2015 . Ouvertures de lignes : les annonces de la semaine! . french . Tour Hebdo .
  4. https://www.air-journal.fr/2022-10-10-air-austral-cet-hiver-un-programme-a-100-des-niveaux-davant-la-pandemie-5243265.html