<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Piarco International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The Piarco Airport opened on 8 January 1931, to serve Venezuela's Compagnie Generale Aeropostale. Before this, the Queen's Park Savannah, the Mucurapo Field, and the Cocorite Docks (for flying boats) were used as airstrips to serve the island.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In World War II the original airfield was used by the Royal Navy for the Fleet Air Arm No. 1 Observer Training School with the base known as RNAS Piarco (HMS Goshawk). The following squadrons were based there until disbanding in 1945:</p>
<p class="blog-para">749 Naval Air Squadron - Observer Training Squadron, (1 January 1941 - 1 October 1945)</p>
<p class="blog-para">750 Naval Air Squadron - Observer Training Squadron, (5 November 1940 - 10 October 1945)</p>
<p class="blog-para">752 Naval Air Squadron - Observer Training Squadron, (5 November 1940 - 9 November 1945)</p>
<p class="blog-para">793 Naval Air Squadron - Air Towed Target Unit, (18 November 1940 - 10 October 1945)</p>
<p class="blog-para">817 Naval Air Squadron - Torpedo, Spotter, Reconnaissance Squadron, 'Z' flight, (21 September 1943 - 27 September 1943)</p>
<p class="blog-para">In 1942 it was also used by both the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force and United States Navy air squadrons. The airport was used both as a transport airfield and also for anti-submarine patrol flights over the south Caribbean.</p>
<p class="blog-para">1st Bombardment Squadron (9th Bombardment Group) 24 April &ndash; 29 October 1941 (B-18 Bolo)</p>
<p class="blog-para">10th Bombardment Squadron (25th Bombardment Group) 27 August &ndash; 12 October 1943 (B-18 Bolo)</p>
<p class="blog-para">35th Bombardment Squadron (25th Bombardment Group) 27 August &ndash; 12 October 1943 (B-18 Bolo)</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Facilities Piarco International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The terminal is a fully air-conditioned, smoke-free building, equipped to handle peak-hour passenger traffic of 1,500 processing passengers through a fully computerised immigration system. The Customs Hall has four baggage/cargo carousels.</p>
<p class="blog-para">An administrative/operations building for the Trinidad and Tobago Air Guard is being constructed at the Piarco Air Base. Also, a military airfield will be constructed near the air base.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Terminals</h2>
<p class="blog-para">In addition it has the Airports Administration Centre, the head office of the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago. The North terminal is the main passenger terminal. It handles all the commercial passenger airline traffic. The north terminal has twenty-nine parking positions.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>North Terminal</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">The North Terminal is the main passenger terminal built in 2001, handling all commercial passenger airline traffic. It has a total of fourteen Jetway gates spread among two concourses, with a total of twenty-nine parking positions spread among the three concourses. The concourses are not strictly named, but are split among Caribbean Airlines and all other airlines.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>South Terminal</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">The south terminal now serves general aviation, cargo and helicopter flights. It has a total of fourteen parking positions as well as offices for the Airport Administration Centre and the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Ground Transportation Piarco International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport is served by the east-west Churchill-Roosevelt Highway which runs to the north of the airport, and connects to the airport circular via BWIA Boulevard. The airport is also accessible from the south via the Caroni South Bank Road, which connects to the north-south Uriah Butler Highway at Caroni.</p>
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