Pierrefonds Airport is an airport located 5.5 kilometres (5,500,000,000,000 nm) west-northwest of Saint-Pierre

Saint-Pierre, Réunion

Saint-Pierre is the third-largest commune in the French overseas department of Réunion. It is located on the southwest side of the island of Réunion.-External links:*...

 in 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...

. It is the smaller of the two airports located on the island, Roland Garros Airport

Roland Garros Airport

Roland Garros Airport , formerly known as Gillot Airport, is located in Sainte-Marie on Réunion, The airport is east of Saint-Denis; it is named for the French aviator Roland Garros who was born in Saint-Denis....

 being the other.

Réunion is a French island located in the Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

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, 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...

.
In 2008, the airport served 135,000 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 60 feet (18 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 15/33 with an 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...

 surface measuring 2100 by 45 m (6,889.8 by 147.6 ).

Airlines and destinations

External links

• Aéroport de la Réunion Saint Pierre Pierrefonds (official site)
• Aéroport de Saint-Pierre - Pierrefonds (Union des Aéroports Français)