Pointe Vele Airport is an airport serving Futuna Island in the French overseas territory of

Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (; french: Wallis-et-Futuna or ', Fakauvea and Fakafutuna: '), is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji ...

. The airport is located east of Leava.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of above

mean sea level There are several kinds of mean in mathematics, especially in statistics. Each mean serves to summarize a given group of data, often to better understand the overall value ( magnitude and sign) of a given data set. For a data set, the '' ...

. It has one

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concrete ...

designated 07/25 with an asphalt surface measuring .

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

Temperature record

On 10 January 2016, the weather station at the airport recorded a temperature of , which is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Wallis and Futuna.

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