Princess Juliana International Airport
Also known as SXM, TNCM
airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, Sint Maarten
Key facts
- Airport type
- Public
- Owner
- Princess Juliana International Airport Holding Company N.V.
- Location
- Sint Maarten ( Saint-Martin )
- Hub for
- Winair
- Elevation amsl
- 14 ft / 4 m
- Website
- sxmairport.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Area
- 642.45
- Elevation
- 13
- Official website
- www.sxmairport.com
- Image
- American 757 on final approach at St Maarten Airport.jpg
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Source: airnav.com
Princess Juliana International Airport (IATA: SXM, ICAO: TNCM) is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. The airport is located on the Dutch side of the island, in the country of Sint Maarten, close to the shore of Simpson Bay Lagoon. In 2015, the airport handled 1,829,543 passengers and around 60,000 aircraft movements. The airport serves as a hub for Winair and is the major gateway for the smaller Leeward Islands, including Anguilla, Saba, Saint Barthélemy and Sint Eustatius. It is named after Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, who landed there while she was heir presumptive in 1944, the year after the airport opened. The airport has very low-altitude flyover landing approaches because one end of its runway is extremely close to the shore and Maho Beach. While Princess Juliana International is the primary aviation gateway to the island, there is also a smaller public-use airport on the French side, in the French Collectivity of Saint Martin, called Grand Case-Espérance Airport.