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UN NOUVEL ESPACE COMMERCIAL AU COEUR DE L'AEROGAREL'aéroport de La Réunion Roland Garros a inauguré le mardi 21 mai 2019 un nouvel espace commercial au sein de l'aérogare passagers, aménagé en mezzanine dans le hall public. Sur près de 800m², ouvert sur la salle kiss & fly de la zone départ, il accueille un restaurant en self-service offrant 140 places assises, né du partenariat entre les groupes New Rest et Cap Méchant.
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L'aéroport de La Réunion Roland Garros participe aux Nuits sans lumière du 8 avril au 2 mai 2019Pour la septième année consécutive, l'aéroport Roland Garros participera aux Nuits sans lumières portées par la SEOR (Société d’Etudes Ornithologiques de La Réunion) et le Parc National de La Réunion pour la protection du pétrel de Barau, oiseau endémique de La Réunion.
Son action consistera à diminuer les éclairages des...
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L’aéroport Roland Garros premier aéroport d’Outre-Mer et 11ème français en 2018L’aéroport de La Réunion Roland Garros est devenu le premier aéroport d’Outre-Mer en 2018, selon les chiffres publiés hier, 14 mars, par l’Union des Aéroports Français (UAF). Roland Garros a accueilli l’an passé 2 473 842 passagers, devançant l’aéroport de Pointe à Pitre-Guadeloupe Pôle Caraïbes (2 446 234 passagers). L’aéroport Martinique-Aimé Césaire figure en troisième position du...
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The first plane
The aviator Marcel Goulette accomplished the first air link between metropolitan France and Reunion Island on 26th November 1929. His Farman landed in a field in the hamlet of Gillot, especially prepared for the occasion. From 1933, the site was used by the Roland Garros flying club.
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The first runway
After the Second World War, flights to and from the island became more organised. The Gillot land became Reunion Island’s airport and a 1 870 m asphalt runway was built.
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The first terminal
The first terminal was built near the sea, in the outskirts of the Maperine quarter.
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The Chamber of Commerce airport operator
The government entrusted the running of the airport to the island’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Air traffic developed between metropolitan France and Reunion Island, via Madagascar.
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The first Boeing
The runway was extended to 2 670 m to allow the landing of four-engined aircraft. The first Air France B 707 landed at Gillot, whose terminal was expanded.
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New terminal
The airport facilities were moved to the south of the runway. The current terminal was built, as well as a cargo terminal and a complex of technical buildings.
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Creation of Air Austral
The Reunion Island company offered medium-haul flights over the Indian Ocean, as well as long-haul flights to metropolitan France from 2003.
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Creation of Réunion Air Assistance
The airport ground services company works with all the airline companies and supplements the services offered by Air France.
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The long runway
A second runway was created. 3 200 m long, it allowed aircraft to take off fully loaded and to fly non-stop to metropolitan France. For its inauguration, on 26th November, the terminal was renamed “Aéroport de Reunion Island Roland Garros” in tribute to the pioneering aviator who was born on Reunion Island.
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New cargo terminal
A new cargo terminal was built on the eastern section of the airport.
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Asia non-stop
Creation of a regular flight between Reunion Island and Asia (Bangkok) operated by Air Austral, firstly through a code sharing agreement with Air Madagascar then under its own brand from 2011.
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The A 380
An Airbus A 380 landed at Reunion Island Roland Garros Airport on 11th November 2009 on a test flight.
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The S.A. Aéroport de Reunion Island
Reunion Island Roland Garros Airport concession was transferred to an airport company made up of the State, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and local authorities. For the first time the airport exceeded the threshold of two million passengers in 2011. Its activity has been growing regularly since the end of the 1980s with the development of competition on the metropolitan France-Reunion Island route, the main component of the traffic.
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New visual identity
Creation and launch of the new visual identity for Reunion Island Roland Garros Airport
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Runways and taxiways
Work began to reinforce and expand runways and taxiways
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The passenger Terminal eastern extension
Start of work on the passenger terminal eastern extension
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Runway and taxiway
Final completion of runway and taxiway reinforcement and shoulder broadening works
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Power plant construction
New backup power plant construction works started west of the airport
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Certification
Airport Company ISO 14001 (Environnement Management) ans ISO 50001 (Energy Management) certified. ISO 9001 certification renewed and extensed to the Freight Terminal
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Opening of the passenger Terminal eastern
Opening of the passenger Terminal eastern extension and delivery of the phase I of the program of investments 2001-2015