| Gustaf III Airport Saint Barthélemy Airport St. Jean Airport Aérodrome de St Jean |
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| IATA: SBH – ICAO: TFFJ | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Mairie de St Barthélemy | ||
| Serves | Saint Barthélemy | ||
| Location | St. Jean | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 48 ft / 15 m | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 10/28 | 650 | 2,133 | Concrete |
| Source: French AIP[1] | |||
Gustaf III Airport[2] (IATA: SBH[2], ICAO: TFFJ[1]), also known as Saint Barthélemy Airport, sometimes as St. Jean Airport (French: Aérodrome de St Jean[1]), is a public use airport located in the village of St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. Both the airport and the island's main town of Gustavia are named for King Gustav III of Sweden, under whom Sweden obtained the island from France in 1785 (it was sold back to France in 1878).
In 1984, Swedish Minister of Communications, Hans Gustafsson, inaugurated the terminal building of the Gustaf III Airport.
The Saint-Barths are divided on the issue of lighting at the airport for emergency purposes. There is a risk then that the traffic to the island would increase, but more importantly there is the issue of night-time noise disruption.
The airport is served by small regional commercial aircraft and charters. Most visiting aircraft carry fewer than twenty passengers, such as the Twin Otter, a common sight around Saint Barth and throughout the northern West Indies. The short airstrip is at the base of a gentle slope ending directly on the beach. The arrival descent is extremely steep over the hilltop traffic circle and departing planes fly right over the heads of sunbathers (although small signs advise sunbathers not to lie directly at the end of the runway). The airport is located in the island's second-largest town, St. Jean.
The History Channel programme Most Extreme Airports ranks Gustaf III airport, which is casually referred to as "St. Barth's", as the 3rd most dangerous airport in the world.[3]
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| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Air Antilles Express | Pointe-à-Pitre |
| St Barth Commuter | Saint Martin, Saint Maarten |
| Winair | Saint Maarten |
| Tradewind Aviation | San Juan, St. Thomas[4] |
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Anguilla Air Services | Anguilla |
| FlyMontserrat | Montserrat |
| Kingfisher Air Services | Anguilla, Antigua, Dominica, Fort-de-France, Grenada, Nevis, Pointe-à-Pitre, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Croix, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, Saint Thomas, Saint Vincent, San Juan, Sint Maarten, Tortola, Trinidad |
| St Barth Commuter | Anguilla, Antigua, Baillif, Barbados, Barbuda, Canouan, Dominica, Dominica-Canefield, Fort-de-France, Fort Lauderdale, Grenada, La Romana, Mustique, Nevis, Pointe-à-Pitre, Providenciales, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Saint Croix, Saint-François, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia-George F. L. Charles, Saint Lucia-Hewanorra, Saint Martin, Saint Thomas, Saint Vincent, San Juan, Santo Domingo-Las Américas, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, Tortola, Union Island, Virgin Gorda |
| Tradewind Aviation | San Juan |
The airport has appeared twice in PrivateFly.com's polls to find the world's best airport approaches, ranking third in 2010[5] and sixth in 2011.[6]