Flaminco airport - Bonaire
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superstein
N 12° 07.951 W 068° 16.624
19P E 578661 N 1341311
Flamingo Airport serves as a connecting point for flights of KLM to some destinations in South America.
Waymark Code: WM9901
Location: Bonaire, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Date Posted: 07/16/2010
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Flamingo International Airport or Bonaire International Airport (IATA: BON, ICAO: TNCB) is an international airport located at Kralendijk, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. Flamingo Airport serves as a connecting point for flights of KLM to some destinations in South America. It once served as a hub for BonaireExel, BonaireExpress, CuraçaoExel, CuraçaoExpress and now serves Dutch Antilles Express as its secondary hub and also EZAir serves Bonaire as its main airline, although the airline itself is based at Curaçao.
It is the third largest airport in the Netherlands Antilles, behind St.Maarten's Princess Juliana International Airport and Curaçao's Hato International Airport and is the fourth largest between the islands of the Dutch Kingdom behind the already mentioned St. Maarten, Curaçao and Aruba's Queen Beatrix International Airport. Arkefly, Continental, Delta and KLM are currently the largest airline operators that operate flights to Bonaire.
The airport is large enough to accommodate most international widebody airliners such as the Boeing 747, the Boeing 777 and the Airbus A340, although the largest widebody type to operate to Bonaire today is the MD11. It can also accommodate medium sized aircraft such as the Boeing 737 and Airbus A310 as well as small aircraft such as the de Havilland Dash 8, ATR 42 and other such turboprop aircraft.
The airport is also the only pink airport in the world.
Type: International
ICAO Airport Code: TNCB
IATA Airport Code: BON
FAA Identifier: Not listed
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