San Salvador Airport , also known as Cockburn Town Airport, is an airport

Airport

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 in San Salvador

San Salvador Island

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, Bahamas.

San Salvador International Airport is one of the few airports in the Bahamas that has Instrument rating landing for airplanes, and as a result aircraft can now land at ZSA after official sunset (with local civil aviation permission).

Bahamas Customs and Immigration

Immigration

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 is present at ZSA between normal working hours of 9am-5pm. The main carrier at ZSA is the national flag carrier Bahamasair

Bahamasair

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, which has daily flights to and from Nassau

Nassau, Bahamas

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. Spirit Airlines

Spirit Airlines

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 flies into San Salvador Airport weekly out of its Fort Lauderdale hub. Club Med

Club Med

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, a major hotel on the island, also has charter jet service flights direct from Paris

Paris

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, Montreal

Montreal

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 and New York

New York

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.

Scheduled flights

Charter flights

Accidents and incidents

• On 2 March 1973, Douglas C-47 N6574 of Arute International Air overran the runway on landing and was damaged beyond economic repair. The cause was pilot error in that a downwind landing was made. The aircraft was operating an international non-scheduled passenger flight from Miami International Airport
  Miami International Airport
  Miami International Airport , also known as MIA and historically Wilcox Field, is the primary airport serving the South Florida area...
  
  , United States
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