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title: "RUN — Roland Garros Airport, Réunion · Orbit"
description: "Roland Garros Airport (RUN/FMEE) serves Réunion, Réunion. Opened 1929, named after Roland Garros, 2.3 million passengers in 2022, 7 km from Saint-Denis."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/run
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Réunion · Réunion · Africa

# RUN — Roland Garros

Roland Garros Airport serves Réunion, Réunion, 7 km from the centre of Saint-Denis, and sits at 20.9°S, 55.5°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Roland Garros** — Reunionese aviator

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%5FGarros%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17430)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-20.89010,55.51890)

**Website**
[reunion.aeroport.fr ↗](http://www.reunion.aeroport.fr/index.htm)

## 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-run) | CDG | 9,370 km | 12h 09m   |

[Distance from RUN to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=RUN&to=CDG) [Map a trip from RUN →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=RUN-CDG)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (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.

[Measure RUN to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

## Flown through RUN?

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