Melville Hall Airport

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The Melville Hall Airport is one of two airports in the island republic of Dominica.

It was opened in 1961 and located about 30 km northeast of the capital Roseau. The airport has no international approval and is only released for smaller passenger aircraft. In recent years, the Melville Hall Airport was expanded with financial support from the EU and Venezuela, and has since the end of 2010 over a sufficiently long runway and an instrument landing system so that it can be flown at night and in poor visibility. On 9 August 2010, the first IFR -based night landing occurred on Dominica by the Caribbean airline Winair, since July 5, 2011 flying the Caribbean airline LIAT from Antigua to Melville Hall Airport daily with a night landing. However, these night flights are controversial, because the landing is considered risky due to the unfavorable location of the airport and the short take-off and landing strip.

Flight operations

Regularly, the airport by the airlines Air Antilles Express ( Fort-de -France and Pointe -à- Pitre ), BVI Airways ( Tortola and Sint Maarten), LIAT (Antigua, Barbados, Guadeloupe and San Juan ), Seaborn Airlines ( San Juan, St. Croix, St. Thomas and Vieques ) and Winair (Aruba, Pointe -à- Pitre, Port -au -Prince, Saba, Sint Maarten, Santo Domingo, St. Barth, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts and Nevis, Tortola ) operated. Flights to and from the Venezuelan airline Conviasa Porlamar by are exposed at the time (March 2014). The carrier American Eagle Airlines has ceased all its operations from San Juan in March 2013.