- IATA
- RUN
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- FMEE
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1929
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 2.3M
- in 2022
History & name
Roland Garros Airport on Réunion takes its name from the Reunionese aviator Roland Garros and opened in 1929. Sitting 7 km from Saint-Denis at 66 feet above sea level, it has two runways up to 3,200 m long and served 2.3 million passengers in 2022.
Named afterRoland Garros — Reunionese aviator
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Roland Garros Airport
- Serves
- Réunion, Réunion
- City centre
- 7 km from Saint-Denis
- Opened
- 1929
- Passengers
- 2.3 million in 2022
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,200 m
- Elevation
- 66 ft (20 m)
- Website
- reunion.aeroport.fr ↗
Where it sits
20.9°S, 55.5°E puts RUN in the southern hemisphere, 2,323 km from the equator and 7,685 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 592nd most northerly, which makes it the 70th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 20.9°N, 124.5°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is General Abelardo L. Rodriguez (TIJ) in Mexico, still 1,494 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (MRU), 231 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from RUN
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris | CDG | 9,370 km | 12h 09m |
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.
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