Lynden Pindling International Airport

Lynden Pindling International Airport (NAS), named for the first Prime Minister of The Bahamas, is by a wide margin the busiest airport in the Bahamas and one of the Caribbean's largest international gateways. Serving the capital Nassau and the cruise-and-resort complex of Paradise Island — including Atlantis — NAS handles more than 4 million passengers a year and dominates inbound tourism traffic to an archipelago that draws roughly 7 million visitors annually. It is operated by the Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD) under a long-term public-private partnership. The airport sits on the western end of New Providence Island, about 16 km (10 mi) west of downtown Nassau, at an elevation of 16 ft (5 m). Two intersecting asphalt runways, 14/32 at 11,353 ft (3,460 m) and 10/28 at 8,273 ft (2,522 m), routinely accommodate Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 operations. The three-terminal complex — U.S. Departures, International Arrivals and International & Domestic Departures — was delivered in three phases between 2011 and 2013 at a cost of USD 409.5 million and features a U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance facility, one of only a handful outside Canada and Bermuda. Thirty-three airlines link NAS to 68 nonstop destinations, with the deepest North American reach of any Caribbean airport: American, Delta, United, JetBlue, Southwest, Air Canada, WestJet and Bahamasair anchor the schedule, while British Airways provides a historic link to London Heathrow. Bahamasair, Western Air, Southern Air and Pineapple Air operate intra-Bahamas feeders to more than 20 Family Islands, making NAS the hub of Bahamian domestic aviation as well as its principal international front door (2025).