Roland Garros Airport , formerly known as Gillot Airport, is located in Sainte-Marie

Sainte-Marie, Réunion

Sainte-Marie is a commune in the French overseas department of Réunion. It is located on the north side of the island of Réunion, just east of, and adjacent to, the capital of Saint-Denis....

 on Réunion

Réunion

Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...

, The airport is 7 kilometres (7,000,000,000,000 nm) east of Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis, Réunion

Saint-Denis is the préfecture of the French overseas region and department of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. It is located at the island's northernmost point, close to the mouth of the Rivière Saint-Denis....

; it is named for the French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 aviator Roland Garros who was born in Saint-Denis.

Réunion is a French island located in the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

, east of Madagascar

Madagascar

The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

 and about 200 kilometres (200,000,000,000,000 nm) southwest of Mauritius

Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

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Roland Garros Airport is the hub of Air Austral

Air Austral

Air Austral is a French airline with its headquarters at Roland Garros Airport in Sainte-Marie, Réunion, France. The airline's main base of flight operations is Roland Garros Airport. It operates scheduled services from Réunion to France, South Africa, Australia, New Caledonia, and a number of...

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Air Bourbon

Air Bourbon

Air Bourbon was a short-lived airline headquartered at Roland Garros Airport in Sainte Marie, Réunion.- History :The airline was created in November 2002 and started scheduled services to mainland France on 7 June 2003...

 was formerly based out of this airport until it ceased operations in 2004. In 2009, the airport served 1.749.958 passengers

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

 of 66 feet (20 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt

Asphalt

Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...

 paved 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...

s: 12/30 measuring 3200 by 45 m (10,498.7 by 147.6 ) and 14/32 measuring 2670 by 45 m (8,759.8 by 147.6 ).

If constructed, the Réunion Tram Train

Réunion Tram Train

The Réunion Tram Train is a planned tram-train line to run approximately 140 kilometres along the coast of Réunion. Construction of the first phase was scheduled to start in 2010, for opening in 2013. The Tram'Tiss consortium is preferred bidder for a PPP concession to develop the line...

 will link the airport to the capital Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis, Réunion

Saint-Denis is the préfecture of the French overseas region and department of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. It is located at the island's northernmost point, close to the mouth of the Rivière Saint-Denis....

 and Saint-Paul

Saint-Paul, Réunion

Saint-Paul is the second-largest commune in the French overseas department of Réunion. It is located on the extreme west side of the island of Réunion.Until 1999, near Saint Paul there was the 428 metres tall mast OMEGA Chabrier transmitter.- Transport :...

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Air Austral

Air Austral

Air Austral is a French airline with its headquarters at Roland Garros Airport in Sainte-Marie, Réunion, France. The airline's main base of flight operations is Roland Garros Airport. It operates scheduled services from Réunion to France, South Africa, Australia, New Caledonia, and a number of...

 has its head office on the airport property. When Air Bourbon

Air Bourbon

Air Bourbon was a short-lived airline headquartered at Roland Garros Airport in Sainte Marie, Réunion.- History :The airline was created in November 2002 and started scheduled services to mainland France on 7 June 2003...

 existed, its head office was on the airport property.

Airlines and destinations

External links

• Reunion Island Airport Roland Garros (official site)
• Reunion Island Airport Roland Garros (official site)
• Aéroport de La Réunion Roland Garros (Union des Aéroports Français)