Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport is an airport located near Plaine Corail on Rodrigues, an island dependency of

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It ...

. It is named after

Gaëtan Duval Sir Charles Gaëtan Duval QC (9 October 1930 – 5 May 1996) was a barrister, statesman and politician from Mauritius who was the leader of the Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate (PMSD). Early life and education Duval was born in Rose Hill on ...

(1930–1996), a former deputy Mauritian prime minister, who oversaw much of the development of Rodrigues. Prior to being renamed in 2007, it was known as Plaine Corail Airport. Airport of Rodrigues Ltd ''(ARL)'' was incorporated on 8 February 2000 as a public company. In 2006, the airport handled 49,500 passengers. It has an asphalt runway which measures . In addition to

Air Mauritius Air Mauritius is the flag carrier airline of Mauritius. The airline is headquartered in Port Louis, Mauritius, with its hub based at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport. The company was placed in voluntary administration on 22 April ...

service to

, Air Austral has started seasonal service to Reunion's

Pierrefonds airport Pierrefonds Airport (french: Aéroport de Saint-Pierre - Pierrefonds) is an airport located west-northwest of Saint-Pierre in Réunion. It is the smaller of the two airports located on the island, Roland Garros Airport being the other. The d ...

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* * Airports in Mauritius Buildings and structures in Rodrigues {{Mauritius-airport-stub