Eugene F. Correia International Airport is located on the

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coast of

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

, east of the capital, Georgetown, in the Demerara-Mahaica region. In 2013,

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began scheduled passenger airline flights between the airport and

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, thus switching over its former air service into

Cheddi Jagan International Airport Cheddi Jagan International Airport , formerly Timehri International Airport, is the primary airport of Guyana. The airport is located on the right bank of the Demerara River in the city of Timehri, south of Guyana's capital, Georgetown. It is ...

. The airport was formerly known as Georgetown-Ogle International Airport and is the second international airport along with the Cheddi Jagan International Airport to serve Georgetown and its vicinity.

History

In 2003, the airport was a local hub shuttling some 50,000 passengers and 1,800 tons of cargo annually. Construction began that year to expand the facility to an international airport, with upgraded facilities for immigration, customs, air traffic control, health and fire service. The lengthened and expanded runway is now in service, and a ceremony to formally open the new airport terminal was held in March, 2007. OGL received its port-of-entry certification in 2009. It has a Class 1A, -long runway made of concrete (07-25). The former runway 07R-25L is now being used as a taxiway only. It operates under

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(VFR) and

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(IFR). The airport is capable of handling smaller business jets as well as regional turboprop airliners, such as the

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flown by

Trans Guyana Airways Trans Guyana Airways Limited is a Guyanese airline which commenced operations in 1956 in Georgetown, Guyana, with a single float airplane. Since then, the company has expanded their fleet to provide domestic and regional transportation, and to ...

as well as the

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-600 operated by

Caribbean Airlines Caribbean Airlines Limited is the state-owned airline and flag carrier of Trinidad and Tobago. The airline is also the flag carrier of Jamaica and Guyana. Headquartered in Iere House in Piarco, the airline operates flights to the Caribbean, No ...

Airlines and destinations

Other facilities

The airline

Fly Jamaica Airways Fly Jamaica Airways was a Jamaican airline headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica. The airline's main hub was based in Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica. The airline mainly offered routes to North America. On 31 March 2019, ...

formerly maintained its Guyana ticket office in the Wings Aviation hangar in the airport,Contact Us
."

. Retrieved on March 22, 2015. "Ticket Office Wings Aviation Hangar Ogle International Airport Ogle, ECD, Guyana South America" although Fly Jamaica Airways served Georgetown via

, located south of the city. Fly Jamaica is no longer in business.

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operates

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helicopters from the airport in support of offshore oil and gas exploration activities.

References

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History

Airlines and destinations

Other facilities

See also

References

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