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Antonio Maceo Airport (IATA: SCU, ICAO: MUCU) is an international airport located in Santiago, Cuba.

Santiago de Cuba International Airport Jose Antonio Maceo Grajales Airport
IATA: SCU ICAO: MUCU
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	ECASA
Location	Santiago de Cuba
Hub for	Aero Caribbean
Elevation AMSL	76 m / 249 ft
Coordinates	19°58′12″N 075°50′08″W
Map
MUCU Location in Cuba
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 10/28 4,002 13,130 Asphalt 01/19 1,400 4,593 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 3,835,783
Aerodrome chart[1]

Overview

The airport has a drawing of Che Guevara on one of its outside walls. Pope John Paul II flew to this airport during his last visit to Cuba, flying a round trip between here and José Martí International Airport in Havana. Likewise, Pope Benedict XVI, during the second papal visit to Cuba, flew here for Mass and other activities, from his visit to León and Guanajuato in Mexico, before moving on to Havana.

The airport is basically a turbo-prop centre.^{[citation needed]} Nevertheless, jet aircraft also fly to this airport. Most commercial flights into SCU are domestic,^{[citation needed]} but there are about twenty international flights each week; while these international flights are done mostly by domestic airlines, the international routes have nevertheless awakened the interest of some foreign airlines that might open flights into this airport in the future.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aerogaviota	Kingston–Norman Manley
Air Caraïbes	Paris–Orly
American Airlines	Miami
Cubana de Aviación	Havana
Fly All Ways	Paramaribo
Iberojet	Madrid
InterCaribbean Airways	Kingston–Norman Manley, Santo Domingo–Las Américas
Sunrise Airways	Cap-Haïtien, Port-au-Prince
VivaAerobús	Cancún

Santiago de Cuba Base

The airport was home to the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces:

• 35th Transport Regiment - Antonov An-2 and Antonov An-26 transports
• 36th Helicopter Regiment - Mil Mi-8 and Mil Mi-24

The helipads are now part of the executive jet terminal on the north end of the airport.

Accidents and incidents

• On 2 October 1959, a Viscount of Cubana de Aviación was hijacked on a flight from Havana to Antonio Maceo Airport, Santiago de Cuba by three men demanding to be taken to the United States. The aircraft landed at the Miami International Airport.[2]
• On 4 November 2010, Aero Caribbean Flight 883, an ATR 72-212, crashed in the centre of the country with 68 people on board. The aircraft was flying from Santiago de Cuba to Havana when it went down. 28 foreigners were reported to be among the passengers. There were no survivors.[3][4]

References

External links

Media related to Antonio Maceo Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Puerto Rico-Cuba flights resume after decades - dead link - and this never happened did it ?
• Departures
• Arrivals

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Santiago de Cuba

Der Flughafen Antonio Maceo (offizieller Name: Aeropuerto Internacional Antonio Maceo), IATA-Code: SCU, ist ein internationaler Flughafen im Süden von Santiago de Cuba, Kuba.

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- [en] Antonio Maceo Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto Internacional de Santiago de Cuba

El Aeropuerto Internacional de Santiago de Cuba también conocido como Aeropuerto Internacional Antonio Maceo y Grajales (IATA: SCU, OACI: MUCU), sirve a la segunda ciudad de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba. Lleva el nombre de un patriota cubano, Antonio Maceo, nacido en la ciudad y que luchó por la libertad de Cuba durante las guerras de independencia contra el colonialismo español.

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[fr] Aéroport de Santiago de Cuba

L'aéroport de Santiago de Cuba-Antonio-Maceo (code IATA : SCU • code OACI : MUCU) est un aéroport international desservant la ville de Santiago de Cuba, à Cuba, dans la province de Santiago de Cuba.

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