Providenciales International Airport , on the island of

Providenciales Providenciales (known locally as Provo) is an island in the northwest Caicos Islands, part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory. The island has an area of and a 2012 Census population of 23,769. Providenciales is the la ...

in the Caicos Islands, is the main international airport serving the

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, a

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of the United Kingdom. It is operated by Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority (TCIAA). The territory's other international airport is

JAGS McCartney International Airport JAGS McCartney International Airport , also known as Grand Turk International Airport, is an airport located south of Cockburn Town on Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It is the sec ...

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. Currently, there are more than 12,000 commercial aircraft operations per year. Providenciales Airport check-in area, Mar 2016

Facilities

The airport is at an elevation of above

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. It has one

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designated 10/28 with an

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surface measuring . There were plans for the TCIAA to either extend or build a new terminal after having recently completed the extension of the runway, which currently stands at long. This project has now been completed and the renovation was finished by December 2014.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Locally-based air carriers

interCaribbean Airways InterCaribbean Airways, Ltd. (formerly known as Air Turks & Caicos) is a low-cost airline, based in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory. The airline offers scheduled domestic and regional commercial passenger flight ser ...

and

Caicos Express Airways Caicos Express Airways is a passenger airline based in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The airline began charter flights in 2007 followed by scheduled services in 2011 from its hub at Providenciales, Turks & Caicos, to multiple domestic destina ...

both currently operate respective hubs at the Providenciales International Airport.

Cargo

Historical passenger airline service

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was operating nonstop

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jet service to Miami (MIA) in 1984. * By 1985, Providenciales was being served by

Cayman Airways Cayman Airways is the flag carrier airline of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands. With its head office in Grand Cayman, it operates mainly as an international and domestic scheduled passenger carrier, with cargo services avai ...

with nonstop service to Miami being operated once a week with

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jetliners as well as by

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which was flying

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service nonstop to Miami and also direct to MIA via a stop in Grand Turk. *

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(

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) was also serving the airport in 1985 with Boeing 727-200 jet service nonstop to Miami twice a week. The next year in 1986

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was operating nonstop service to Miami flown with a

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jet as part of its

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- Providenciales - Miami route. In 1987, Pan Am was flying a "triangle" routing of Miami - Grand Turk - Providenciales - Miami four days a week with a

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, and in 1989 Pan Am was operating three nonstop flights a week to Miami with Boeing 727-200 jets. By 1991, Pan Am had increased its service to four Boeing 727-200 flights a week nonstop to Miami while at the same time Cayman Airways was operating two nonstop flights a week to Miami with

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jets. * In 1993-1994

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was operating two nonstop flights a week to Miami with

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jetliners. *

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was serving the airport by 1994 with a single daily nonstop

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flight from Miami while at the same time Turks and Caicos Airways Ltd., which was based in nearby Grand Turk, was operating

service from Miami five days a week either nonstop or via a stop in Grand Turk. Three airlines were operating nonstop flights to Miami in early 1995: American was continuing to serve Providenciales with a daily Boeing 727-200 nonstop flight plus a Saturday only Boeing 727-200 nonstop, Turks and Caicos Airways was flying nonstop with a Boeing 737-200 four days a week and Gray Line Air was operating nonstop

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turboprop service nine times a week. In 1999, American was operating daily nonstop Boeing 727-200 service to Miami while at the same time

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was operating nonstop Boeing 737-200 flights to both Miami and Nassau twice a week. By 2001, American was operating three daily nonstop flights to Miami with

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aircraft and was also flying a Saturday only nonstop to New York

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with a Boeing 737-800. Currently, the largest aircraft type serving the airport on a scheduled basis is the wide-body

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operated by

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with direct flights once a week to London

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via an intermediate stop in

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Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

Historical passenger airline service

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