Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI)

Barbados / Saint Philip / Crane / Tom Adams Highway
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Located 12.9 km (8 mi.) from the centre of the capital city Bridgetown
IATA: BGI
ICAO: TBPB

The Airport has a single (3,353m - 11,000 ft) east-west runway

As a result of tradewinds that blow from the Atlantic Ocean across Barbados from the east, all planes usually land and take-off in an easterly direction
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantley_Adams_International_Airport
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Coordinates:   13°4'38"N   59°29'31"W

Comments

  • Grantley Adams was one of the few destinations in the world where British Airways' Concorde aircraft made regularly-scheduled flights :)
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