Guadeloupe - Maryse Condé International Airport

Guadeloupe – Maryse Condé International Airport is the principal airport of the French Caribbean overseas region of Guadeloupe and the second-busiest French airport in the Caribbean after Martinique–Aimé Césaire (FDF). Renamed in 2019 for the Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé, PTP handles 36 scheduled routes to 21 nonstop destinations operated by 15 airlines, with a traffic profile dominated by transatlantic service to metropolitan France and regional Caribbean connectivity. The airport operates a single 11,499 ft (3,505 m) lighted asphalt runway 12/30 at 36 ft (11 m) elevation on the isthmus between Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre, the two lobes of Guadeloupe. The 3,505 m strip is long enough to support full widebody operations and is used daily by Air France and Air Caraïbes on Airbus A330 and A350 service to Paris-Orly, with corsair international operating A330s to Paris-Orly as well. The high-frequency Paris–Pointe-à-Pitre route is among the most flown transatlantic city pairs in the world. Internationally significant as an aviation hub for the French Antilles and a primary connection for inter-island Caribbean travel. Air Antilles and Air Caraïbes connect Pointe-à-Pitre to Fort-de-France (FDF), Saint Martin (SXM), Saint Barts (SBH), Dominica (DOM), Havana (HAV), Cayenne (CAY), and Miami (MIA). The airport gains additional significance from its role as the operational hub for French civil protection and Antilles disaster-response aviation, staging search-and-rescue and humanitarian-relief operations across the eastern Caribbean after hurricanes. As an EU-territory airport, PTP operates under EASA regulation with Schengen border-control conventions applied on departures to metropolitan France.