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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Miquelon Airport

Miquelon Airport (French: Aéroport de Miquelon) (IATA: MQC, ICAO: LFVM) is a regional airport on Miquelon Island that the commune (municipality) of Miquelon-Langlade, in the French overseas community (collectivité d'outre-mer) of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the eastern coast of North America in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Overview

The main passenger building contains the check-in counters (small structure) connected with the control tower and fire fighting station located in the larger service building.

Airline and destination

AirlinesDestinations
Air Saint-Pierre Saint-Pierre

There are no direct flights to or from mainland France.

To travel to mainland France, passengers must first fly or take the ferry to Saint-Pierre. From there they can either fly to Montréal–Trudeau airport and transfer onto direct flights to Paris (CDG and Orly), Alternatively, once a week during the summer season, there is a direct ASL Airlines France flight from Saint-Pierre to Paris, which has been operating again since 2023 after being suspended during 2021 and -2 due to COVID-19.

The airport's runways are capable of handling turboprop or small jet aircraft only.

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at MQC airport. See Wikidata query.

See also

References

  1. ^ French Aeronautical Information Publication for LFVM (PDF) – MIQUELON
  2. ^ "The Most Interesting Transatlantic Flight Returns in 2023". 22 December 2022.