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Roland Garros Airport

ICAO FMEE20.8901°S 55.5189°E20 m / 66 ftLarge airport
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Roland Garros Airport (IATA: RUN, ICAO: FMEE) is a large airport in Sainte-Marie, Saint-Denis Arrondissement, Réunion. It opened on 26 Nov 1929. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,200 m (10,499 ft). In 2025 it handled 2.8 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1929–1968
26 NOV 1929
OpenedRoland Garros Airport opens.
09 MAR 1968
Disaster1968 Sainte-Marie Douglas DC-6 crash.16 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Aérogare FretAéroport de La Réunion Roland-Garros
12/30102° / 282° · LIT
LENGTH3,200 m10,499 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
14/32116° / 296° · LIT
LENGTH2,670 m8,760 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
2.0M
2.1M
2.1M
2.3M
2.4M
2.5M
1.0M
1.2M
2.3M
2.6M
2.7M
2.8M
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Routes

12 destinations · 8 countries
Year-round12
MRUSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International AirportMauritius · Air Austral, Air Mauritius231 km144 miTMMToamasina Ambalamanasy AirportMadagascar · Air Austral712 km442 miTNRIvato International AirportMadagascar · Air Austral872 km542 miNOSNosy Be International AirportMadagascar · Air Austral1,138 km707 miDIEArrachart AirportMadagascar · Air Austral1,158 km720 miDZADzaoudzi Pamandzi International AirportMayotte · Ewa Air, Air Austral1,411 km877 miHAHPrince Said Ibrahim International AirportComoros · Air Austral1,669 km1,037 miJNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Air Austral2,836 km1,762 miMAAChennai International AirportIndia · IndiGo4,631 km2,878 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · Air Austral6,259 km3,889 miORYParis-Orly AirportFrance · French Bee9,360 km5,816 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France, Air Austral9,370 km5,822 mi
Most destinationsAir Austral 10Air Mauritius 1Ewa Air 1IndiGo 1French Bee 1Air France 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from RUN. From the Wikipedia article “Roland Garros Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers2.8M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#494of 3,974 · #22 Africa · #1 RELongest runway3,200 m10,499 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=819of 29,823 · =126 Africa · #1 REElevation20 m66 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,288of 43,341 · =2,927 Africa · #4 REAgeOpened 19292026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=369of 15,079 · =13 Africa · #1 RERunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =24 Africa · #1 RE
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

5 channels
A/GGILLOT RDO347.600
APPGILLOT APP119.400
ATISATIS126.800
GNDGILLOT GND121.900
TWRGILLOT TWR118.400