San Salvador Airport

This article is about the airport in the Bahamas. For the airport in El Salvador, see Cuscatlan International Airport.

San Salvador Airport Cockburn Town Airport
IATA: ZSA – ICAO: MYSM
Summary
Airport type		Public
Location		San Salvador Island
Elevation AMSL		24 ft / 7 m
Coordinates		24°03′48″N 074°31′26″W / 24.06333°N 74.52389°W / 24.06333; -74.52389Coordinates: 24°03′48″N 074°31′26″W / 24.06333°N 74.52389°W / 24.06333; -74.52389
Map
MYSM Location in The Bahamas
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
10/28	2,438	7,999	Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1]

San Salvador Airport (IATA: ZSA, ICAO: MYSM), also known as Cockburn Town Airport, is an airport in San Salvador, Bahamas.

San Salvador International Airport is one of the few airports in the Bahamas that has Instrument rating landing for airplanes, and as a result aircraft can now land at ZSA after official sunset (with local civil aviation permission).

Bahamas Customs and Immigration is present at ZSA between normal working hours of 9am-5pm. The main carrier at ZSA is the national flag carrier Bahamasair, which has daily flights to and from Nassau. Spirit Airlines flies into San Salvador Airport weekly out of its Fort Lauderdale hub. Club Med, a major hotel on the island, also has charter jet service flights direct from Paris, Montreal and New York.

Airlines and destinations

Scheduled flights

Airlines	Destinations
Air Sunshine	Fort Lauderdale
Bahamasair	Arthurs Town, Nassau, DeadmansCay, LongIsland
SkyBahamas Airlines	Nassau

Charter flights

Airlines	Destinations
Spirit Airlines	Fort Lauderdale
WestJet	Montreal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson
CanJet	Montreal-Trudeau
XL Airways France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle

Accidents and incidents

• On 2 March 1973, Douglas C-47 N6574 of Arute International Air overran the runway on landing and was damaged beyond economic repair. The cause was pilot error in that a downwind landing was made. The aircraft was operating an international non-scheduled passenger flight from Miami International Airport, United States.^[2]

References

1. ^ Airport information for MYSM at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
2. ^ "N6574 Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19730302-0. Retrieved 26 August 2010.