Lonorore Airport guide

Lonorore Airport is a small domestic airfield on the south-western coast of Pentecost Island, in Penama Province, Vanuatu. Its ICAO code is NVSO. The field sits 13 metres above sea level, about 3 km south of Baravet village.

The airstrip began as a private grass strip built in colonial times by the plantation owner René Thévenin. An upgrade completed in 2009 gave it a longer, tarmacked runway of about 900 metres, and an opening ceremony was held in July 2009. The runway could take larger ATR aircraft, but in practice it is used by Twin Otters, Islanders and small charter planes.

Air Vanuatu flies from Lonorore to Port Vila and to Luganville on Espiritu Santo, sometimes with a stop at Ambae. Services run two or three days a week. Pentecost has a second airstrip at Sara in the north, a long road trip away.