Jardines del Rey Airport

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Jardines del Rey Int'l Airport
IATA: CCC - ICAO: MUCC
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Aena/ECASA
Serves		Cayo Coco
Elevation AMSL		13 ft (4 m)
Coordinates		22°27′39.55″N 078°19′42.32″W / 22.4609861, -78.3284222
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
08/26	9,842	3,000	Asphalt

Jardines del Rey Airport (IATA: CCC, ICAO: MUCC) is an airport situated on the Island of Cayo Coco, in the Ciego de Ávila Province, Cuba. The airport was inaugurated on December 26, 2002. The airport is the only one in Cuba that has a shared administration with Aena, a Spanish company that manages 47 airports in Spain, twelve in Mexico and three in Colombia. Thousands of Canadian & European holiday makers pass through the airport every year. The airport serves holiday makers bound to both Cayo Guillermo and Cayo Coco.

Contents 1 Services 2 Communications and access 3 Airlines and destinations 4 External links

[edit] Services

• VIP Lounges: The Airport has two VIP lounges, one being of Cubana de Aviación. The lounges provide tea/coffee, soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, snack bar, restaurant, TV, video, magazines/newspapers, check-in at class-differentiated counters, immigration and onboard control and flight information.

• Bank office: The airport has a bank office that is open 24 hours a day. This is the only office in the Keys that offers bank service on weekends.

• Shop: The airport has two duty free shops and one point of sale for books and music in the international departures area as well as a point of sale of drinks and cigars, in the check-in area.

• Snack bar and restaurant

• Nursery: At the disposal of the clients, there is a free service of nursery school, equipped with toys and attended by personnel of the airport.

[edit] Communications and access

Only by road:

Access to the Jardines del Rey Airport is gained along highway, that links the tourist destination with the rest of the country. The zone of the keys is united to the mainland by a 17 km (11 mi) "pedraplen" (causeway), that starts from Turiguanó (to 40 km (25 mi) from the airport).

The times of access by highway are the following:

• Ciego de Avila: 1 h 15 min
• Morón: 50 min.
• Cayo Guillermo: 35 min.
• Cayo Coco: 15 min.

There is not a regular bus route that links the mentioned cities with the Airport.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

• Aerocaribbean (Havana)
• Aerogaviota (Havana)
• Air Canada (Halifax, Montreal, Toronto-Pearson)
• Air Transat (Montreal, Toronto-Pearson)
• Blue Panorama Airlines (Milan-Malpensa)
• CanJet (Montreal, Quebec City)
• Cubana de Aviación (Havana, Montreal, Toronto-Pearson)
• Condor Airlines (Frankfurt)
• Corsairfly (Paris-Orly)
• First Choice Airways (Manchester (UK))
• Skyservice (Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto-Pearson)
• Sunwing Airlines (Halifax, Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto-Pearson)
• Thomas Cook Airlines (London-Gatwick, Glasgow-Internationl [begins 30 June 2009], Manchester (UK))
• WestJet (Ottawa)

[edit] External links

• Airport information for MUCC at World Aero Data
• Cubana destinations and airports

v • d • e International Airports of Cuba Abel Santa María (Santa Clara) · Antonio Maceo (Santiago de Cuba) · Jardines del Rey (Cayo Coco) · Frank País (Holguin) · Ignacio Agramonte International (Camaguey) · Jaime González (Cienfuegos) · José Martí International (Havana) · Juan Gualberto Gómez (Varadero) · Vilo Acuña (Cayo Largo del Sur)