“Isla Grande” Airport

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Right next to the Pedro Rossel­ló González Con­ven­tion Cen­ter is the Fer­nan­do Luis Ribas Dominic­ci Air­port, bet­ter known to most Puer­to Ricans as the “Aerop­uer­to de Isla Grande”.

The facil­i­ty was orig­i­nal­ly built just pri­or to World War II as part of the U.S. Navy’s Isla Grande Air Naval Sta­tion, and it also served as Puer­to Rico’s main air­port facil­i­ty until 1954.

Most inter­na­tion­al air­lines land­ed at Isla Grande includ­ing Deutsche Lufthansa, Iberia Air­lines, Pan Am and Trans Caribbean Air­ways which was lat­er acquired by Amer­i­can Air­lines.  But the land­ing strip was nev­er envi­sioned for jet planes, so as avi­a­tion advanced a new and larg­er air­port was built in 1954 in the near­by town of Carolina.

The facil­i­ty was renamed after Air Force Major Fer­nan­do Luis Ribas-Dominic­ci, a Unit­ed States F‑111 pilot who was killed in action dur­ing Oper­a­tion El Dora­do Canyon in Libya.

Today the Isla Grande Air­port cov­ers most of the small­er flights to neigh­bor­ing Caribbean Islands and Puer­to Rico’s island munic­i­pal­i­ties, while the larg­er Luis Muñoz Marín Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, about five miles to the east, takes care of inter­na­tion­al departures.

For infor­ma­tion about flights, rates and sched­ules call 787–724-6464 or 787–722-3636.

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