St. John’s airport is located three nautical miles, about 5.6 km northwest of St. John’s. This international airport serves the entire St. John’s metro area. It also serves Avalon Peninsula. Located in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, the airport is one of National Airports System. You will find a number of car hire agencies at the airport. Hire cars come in handy for anyone with plans of transversing the entire St, John’s area and surrounding areas.
Information about the airport
St. John’s International Airport Authority Inc is the operator of this airport. The NAV CANADA has classified this airport as an entry airport. Canada Border Services Agency staffs St. John’s airport. The CBSA officers available at this airport have the capacity to handle not more than 165 passengers in an aircraft. However, they can handle comfortably close to 450 passengers in an unloaded aircraft.
- Some of the airlines that use the St. John’s airport include Air Canada, Air Canada Express, Air Saint Pierre, Air Transat, Canadian North, Porter Airlines, Provincial Airlines and Sunwing Airlines. Others are United Airlines, United Express and WestJet.
- St. John’s airport is home to many car hire agencies. All these car hire companies have new cars for clients. What this means is that upon landing from the airport, you can pick a car for hire at the airport and embark on your journey of discovering Canada. You can rest assured that these cars boast of being free from any technical problems thus your ride is bound to be more than smooth and comfortable. What is more is that unlike other airports with expensive car hires, the cars are more than affordable.
- Apart from hosting aircrafts, this airport is also home to helicopter services. ‘Cougar Helicopters’ is a perfect example of a helicopter agency that calls the airport home. Many others exist. Cougar Helicopters and Provincial Airlines are the two fixed base operators that are based in this airport.
Just like any other airport in the world, St. John’s airport has also experienced a number of accidents coming its way over the years. A relevant example of accident is the one that took place on the 14th August 2012, when the IIyushin II-76TD-90VD overran the runway 11. Operated by Volga-Dnepr Airlines, this aircraft landed on the grass overrun area. It suffered minor damages. The best part is that no crew sustained injuries. The plane had a crew of nine. Despite this accident, car hire agencies are still available providing incredible services to anyone in need.
