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The airport is located 5 km from the village of Carbonera, closer to the city of Matanzas than to Varadero. The closest airport to Varadero is Kawama Airport. In 2009, the airport handled 1.28 million passengers, [2] making it the second busiest airport in Cuba after José Martí International Airport in Havana.
Kawama Airport was the original international airport serving Varadero. It served over 330,000 Cubans who fled the country for the United States during the Freedom Flights . However, as the tourism sector in the region developed, Kawama Airport grew too close to the beaches and resorts, creating noise issues for visitors.
Map of Cuba. This is a list of airports in Cuba, grouped by type and sorted by location.. Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean.It is an archipelago of islands located in the northern Caribbean Sea at the confluence with the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.
Cuba: Varadero MUVR VRA Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport ... Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport Cuba: Varadero MUKW Kawama Airport: Military airports Cuba: Guantánamo Bay ...
Varadero Airport may refer to the following airports in Varadero, Matanzas Province, Cuba: Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport , formerly known as Varadero Airport Kawama Airport , an airport serving Varadero
This is a list of the busiest airports in the Caribbean region by passenger traffic. Statistics are available for almost all the airstrips taken into account. The present list intends to include all the international airports located in the area geographically defined as the Caribbean. Given that each country has a different body to control ...
Inaugurated in December 2002, the airport was built to better serve tourists to the island, who previously had to arrive at Máximo Gómez Airport about 70 kilometres (43 mi) to the south. Jardines del Rey Airport is the only airport in Cuba managed in part by a foreign company; Aena and ECASA jointly operate the airport.
It is named for Máximo Gómez, a Major General in the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) and Cuba's military commander in the Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898). It received flights mostly from Canada during the 1990s, with tourists going to the resorts on the island of Cayo Coco.