Negril Aerodrome is an airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 serving Negril

Negril

Negril is a small but widely dispersed beach resort town located across parts of two Jamaican parishes of Westmoreland and Hanover. Westmoreland is the westernmost parish in Jamaica, located on the south side of the island...

 in western Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

. It is located 7 km (4.3 mi) north of Negril Point. It primarily serves the tourist resorts in the area.

Negril Aerodrome handled approximately 72,096 passengers in 2001. The airport formerly had scheduled passenger service provided by Air Jamaica Express

Air Jamaica Express

Air Jamaica Express was an airline based in Kingston, Jamaica and before folding operated as a subsidiary of Air Jamaica. It operated domestic and inter island scheduled flights and charter services...

.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation

Elevation

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 of 9 ft (3 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

 designated 05/23 with an asphalt

Asphalt

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 surface measuring 2200 by 60 ft (670.6 by 18.3 ). There are no fueling facilities and the airport has no night flight operations.

Airlines and destinations

Passengers

The following table shows the number of passengers using the airport annually from 1997 through 2001.

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Passengers	31,646	42,030	65,926	57,809	72,096