Marie-Galante Airport (Grand-Bourg) GBJ / TFFM
Grand-Bourg, Marie-Galante · Guadeloupe (France) · Conseil Departemental de la Guadeloupe (owner and manager; the runway/terminal rehabilitation was funded as the first phase of a roughly EUR4M departmental-aerodrome investment, 2023-2025, that the Conseil Departemental itself describes as shared across four departmental fields - Marie-Galante, Terre-de-Haut, Baillif and La Desirade - rather than a Marie-Galante-specific project, and that enabled this airport's return to commercial service)
Limited hours
ICAO / IATATFFM / GBJ
OperatorConseil Departemental de la Guadeloupe (owner and manager; the runway/terminal rehabilitation was funded as the first phase of a roughly EUR4M departmental-aerodrome investment, 2023-2025, that the Conseil Departemental itself describes as shared across four departmental fields - Marie-Galante, Terre-de-Haut, Baillif and La Desirade - rather than a Marie-Galante-specific project, and that enabled this airport's return to commercial service)
Coordinates15.8686°N, 61.2722°W
Elevation16 ft · 5 m
Time zoneAmerica/Guadeloupe (AST, UTC-4, no DST)
Passengers / yr—
CustomsNo
Border controlNo
SchengenNo
Fuel—
Bonded—
AIP referenceTFFM - AIP France (SIA), AD 2 TFFM; CAR-SAM-NAM series
Operating hoursNo control tower - AFIS (Aerodrome Flight Information Service): 'Marie Galante Information' on 119.30 MHz, French language only (a staffed advisory service, not a bare self-announce/blind-broadcast frequency). Daylight VFR only (no confirmed runway lighting for night operations); the ticket counter typically closes about 1 hour before each scheduled departure. Current Air Inter Iles timetable runs within roughly 0700-1800 local, several days a week (up to about 10 rotations weekly in the winter high season).
TerminalsOne small terminal building, rebuilt/modernized as part of the departmental investment ahead of the 2025 service relaunch, with on-site vehicle parking; no jet bridges, no on-field aviation fuel confirmed.
Runways (1)
- 09/27 · 1,240 m / 4,068 ft · 30 m wide · Asphalt
Airport contact
A single-runway departmental airstrip on Marie-Galante island (part of the Guadeloupe archipelago, itself an EU outermost region outside Schengen), it had no scheduled commercial flights for roughly two decades before 2025. The Conseil Departemental de la Guadeloupe, which owns the field, funded its runway and terminal rehabilitation as the first phase of a roughly EUR4M departmental-aerodrome investment that it has described as shared across four fields (Marie-Galante, Terre-de-Haut, Baillif and La Desirade) rather than dedicated to Marie-Galante alone. Commercial service returned with a ceremonial first flight on 20 February 2025 and regular Air Inter Iles (operated with St Barth Executive) service from 31 March 2025, flying 9-seat Tecnam P2012 Traveller STOL twin-piston aircraft on the roughly 20-minute hop to Pointe-a-Pitre (PTP). The route is domestic within the Guadeloupe department (no customs or immigration on site) and is unrelated to, and unaffected by, the separate carrier Air Antilles, which the Pointe-a-Pitre commercial court placed into judicial liquidation on 27 April 2026. No official annual passenger total has been published for this recently reopened field; scheduled frequency has grown from about 3-4 rotations a week at launch toward up to about 10 rotations a week in the winter high season, but volumes remain small given the 9-seat aircraft in use. The paved 1,240 m runway is nominally rated to take twin-turboprops such as the ATR 42 or Dash 8-Q400, though only the light Tecnam is currently scheduled.
Services
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On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
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Ground handling
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Conseil Départemental de la Guadeloupe (Aérodrome de Grand-Bourg / Marie-Galante)
Owns and operates the aérodrome départemental de Grand-Bourg (Les Bases) and its rebuilt terminal (aérogare), inaugurated Feb 2025 after a EUR4M modernisation funded by the Département and Region; runs the field's counter/ramp operations for the sole scheduled carrier since no independent third-party ground handler is listed for this airport in aviation directories (Business Air News/AC-U-KWIK show none); exact scope of ramp services beyond terminal operation is unconfirmed.
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Air Inter Îles (operated by St Barth Executive)
Sole scheduled operator at Marie-Galante, flying Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe Maryse Condé)-Grand-Bourg since the route's 31 Mar 2025 relaunch, up to 4x/week using Tecnam P2012 STOL aircraft; sells tickets and checks passengers in directly at the departmental aerodrome counter one hour before flights (per Conseil Départemental de la Guadeloupe's official announcement), consistent with self-handling typical of small commuter STOL operations; not separately confirmed as holding a certificated third-party ground-handling licence.
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