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Montserrat New Airport Will Finally Open In July

Chiguire From Venezuela, joined Sep 2004, 2003 posts, RR: 19
Posted (8 years 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 2762 times:

Ten years after a volcano eruption destroyed the airport of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, a new airport will open on July 11th.
The runway will be 600mtrs. long.
The island with the airport code MNI can then be reached by 4 daily Winair (WM) Twin-Otter flights out of Antigua.

Since the island could only be reached by helicopter service and boat, the tourism industry was down and turned Montserrat into one of the poorest islands of the Caribbean.
I wish Montserrat a lot of success with the new airport.
And maybe this also helps their soccer team to leave rank 202 (from 205) bigthumbsup .

Here some links:
http://www.visitmontserrat.com/travel.htm
http://www.montserrat-newsletter.com

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Voodoo From Niue, joined Mar 2001, 1962 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (8 years 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 2742 times:

Cute. And probably the smallest airport in world with road tunnel under the runway! Didn't the old airport get LIAT Dash8s?

` Yeaah! Baade 152! Trabi of the Sky! '

Luisde8cd From Venezuela, joined Aug 2004, 2516 posts, RR: 34
Reply 2, posted (8 years 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2689 times:

I see CONVIASA's Dash7 landing in there...

Edit:
Nevermind, for a moment I thought Montserrat was independent, so it would be a valious vote for Chavez in the OAS. Now I see it is an overseas dept of the UK

[Edited 2005-04-23 17:06:15]

Viasa we miss you!. Good times will return after Chavez is gone!

Chiguire From Venezuela, joined Sep 2004, 2003 posts, RR: 19
Reply 3, posted (8 years 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2684 times:

Quoting Luisde8cd (Reply 2):
I see CONVIASA's Dash7 landing in there...

Why ? Is the Governor from Montserrat a good friend from Hugo Chavez ? spin

Quoting Voodoo (Reply 1):
Didn't the old airport get LIAT Dash8s?

True, in the past LIAT was also flying to MNI. And I am a bit surprised that Winair will now be serving Montserrat from ANU because this is LIAT territory. WM is at home in SXM.

Orion737 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (8 years 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2680 times:

What will be the largest aircraft type capable of operations to and from Montserrat?

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