Jardines Del Rey Airport guide

The airport sits on Cayo Coco, an island off Cuba's northern coast in Ciego de Ávila province. It was inaugurated on 26 December 2002 and takes its name from the Jardines del Rey archipelago. It was built so that visitors to the island's resorts no longer had to land at Máximo Gómez Airport near Morón, about 70 km away on the mainland. A 27 km causeway across Bahía de Perros links the island to the mainland.

A single asphalt runway, 08/26, measures 3,000 m by 45 m and has an instrument landing system. The terminal covers about 6,000 m² and handles 600 passengers an hour, with annual capacity of 1.2 million. It has two VIP lounges, a snack bar, a restaurant, duty-free shops and a currency exchange. The apron has three parking positions.

Aena of Spain and Cuba's ECASA run the airport together, which makes it the only Cuban airport partly managed by a foreign company. Traffic is mostly foreign tourists, many of them Canadian, and totals over 200,000 passengers a year. Hurricane Irma damaged the airport in September 2017. It reopened in early November 2017 after repairs that added reinforced walls, new shops and central air conditioning.