- IATA
- MRU
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- FIMP
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1999
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 3.9M
- in 2019
History & name
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport opened in 1999 and honours Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900-1985), the politician, statesman and philanthropist who served as prime minister of Mauritius. It lies 36 km from Port Louis, handled 3.9 million passengers in 2019 and has one runway of 3,370 m.
Named afterSeewoosagur Ramgoolam — politician, statesman and philanthropist and the first prime minister of Mauritius (1900-1985)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport
- Serves
- Mauritius, Mauritius
- City centre
- 36 km from Port Louis
- Opened
- 1999
- Passengers
- 3.9 million in 2019
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,370 m
- Elevation
- 186 ft (57 m)
- Website
- aml.mru.aero ↗
Where it sits
20.4°S, 57.7°E puts MRU in the southern hemisphere, 2,272 km from the equator and 7,736 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 590th most northerly, which makes it the 72nd most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 20.4°N, 122.3°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Los Cabos (SJD) in Mexico, still 1,335 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Roland Garros (RUN), 231 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from MRU
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 9,784 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg | JNB | 3,066 km | 4h 19m |
| London | LHR | 9,784 km | 12h 40m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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