BQN

Rafael Hernández International Airport

ICAO TJBQ18.4949°N 67.1294°W238 ft / 73 mMedium airport
On the map
Aguadilla airport
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Rafael Hernández International Airport (IATA: BQN, ICAO: TJBQ) is a medium airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It has one runway, 11,702 ft (3,567 m) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 673 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Rafael Hernández International Airport (BQN)
08/26072° / 252° · LIT
LENGTH11,702 ft3,567 mWIDTH200 ft61 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
403K
510K
490K
597K
736K
145K
456K
695K
857K
724K
673K
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Routes

16 destinations · 10 countries
2,500 km5,000 km1,000 mi2,000 mi3,000 miFLL · Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport · 982 mi / 1,581 kmMCO · Orlando International Airport · 1,129 mi / 1,817 kmLAL · Lakeland Linder International Airport · 1,149 mi / 1,849 kmJFK · John F. Kennedy International Airport · 1,580 mi / 2,543 kmHVN · Tweed New Haven Airport · 1,609 mi / 2,590 kmSJU · Luis Munoz Marin International Airport · 74 mi / 119 kmSDQ · Las Américas International Airport · 167 mi / 268 kmSTI · Cibao International Airport · 235 mi / 379 kmSKB · Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport · 301 mi / 485 kmFDF · Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport · 487 mi / 784 kmSLU · George F. L. Charles Airport · 511 mi / 822 kmBGI · Grantley Adams International Airport · 631 mi / 1,015 kmPOS · Piarco International Airport · 669 mi / 1,077 kmSJO · Juan Santamaría International Airport · 1,284 mi / 2,067 kmMEM · Frederick W. Smith International Airport · 1,806 mi / 2,907 kmVCP · Viracopos International Airport · 3,169 mi / 5,100 kmVCPMEMHVNSJOLALPOSBGISKBSTIFLLFDFSJUJFKSLUSDQMCOBQN
Cargo11
SJULuis Munoz Marin International AirportPuerto Rico · Air Cargo Carriers, Ameriflight119 km74 miSDQLas Américas International AirportDominican Republic · FedEx Express268 km167 miSTICibao International AirportDominican Republic · Air Cargo Carriers, FedEx Express379 km235 miSKBRobert L. Bradshaw International AirportSt. Kitts & Nevis · Ameriflight485 km301 miFDFMartinique Aimé Césaire International AirportMartinique · Ameriflight784 km487 miSLUGeorge F. L. Charles AirportSt. Lucia · Ameriflight, FedEx Express822 km511 miBGIGrantley Adams International AirportBarbados · Ameriflight1,015 km631 miPOSPiarco International AirportTrinidad & Tobago · Ameriflight, FedEx Express1,077 km669 miSJOJuan Santamaría International AirportCosta Rica · FedEx Express2,067 km1,284 miMEMFrederick W. Smith International AirportUnited States · FedEx Express2,907 km1,806 miVCPViracopos International AirportBrazil · FedEx Express5,100 km3,169 mi
Most destinationsFedEx Express 7Ameriflight 6JetBlue Airways 3Avelo Airlines 2Air Cargo Carriers 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BQN. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Rafael Hernández Airport” (revision of 12 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers673K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#980of 3,974 · #238 North America · #2 PRLongest runway11,702 ft3,567 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#451of 29,823 · #110 North America · #1 PRElevation238 ft73 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=32,946of 43,341 · =15,097 North America · #3 PRRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =2 PR
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

4 channels
A/DSAN JUAN CNTR135.700
MISCAIR CG34.500
RDOSAN JUAN RDO113.500
UNICCTAF/UNICOM123.000