Praslin Island Airport Iles des Palmes Airport
IATA: PRI ICAO: FSPP
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	SCAA (Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority)
Serves	Praslin Island, Seychelles
Elevation AMSL	10 ft / 3 m
Coordinates	04°19′09″S 55°41′30″E / 4.31917°S 55.69167°E / -4.31917; 55.69167
Map
PRI Location of Airport in Seychelles
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 15/33 1,405 4,610 Concrete
Source: WAD[1] GCM[2] Google Maps[3]

Praslin Island Airport (IATA: PRI, ICAO: FSPP) also known as Iles des Palmes Airport, is an airport at Grand Anse on Praslin Island in the Seychelles. It is served by Air Seychelles, which flies scheduled flights to Mahé and charters to the other islands in the Seychelles. The airport has the capacity to handle over 1500 passengers daily and over half a million passengers annually.

History

During the late 1990s Praslin underwent an expansion to deal with increased passengers and larger planes. The airport was officially reopened on June 3, 2001. The cost of the renovation was around 40 million Seychellois rupees.^{[citation needed]}

Airline and destination

Statistics

Values from "Seychelles in Figures" for traffic between Mahé and Praslin: ^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

Year	Passengers	Change
2014	158,271	1%
2013	160,262	60%
2012	100,302	42%
2011	173,736	8%
2010	161,045	6%
2009	152,614	28%
2008	212,784	16%
2007	252,545	6%
2006	237,199	11%
2005	214,055	0%
2004	215,074	6%
2003	227,830	0%