W. H. Bramble (Blackburne) Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Location | Trants, Montserrat | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 16°45′32″N 62°9′23″W / 16.75889°N 62.15639°W | ||||||||||
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W. H. Bramble Airport, formerly known as Blackburne Airport, was an international airport on the east coast of the island of Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It was named after Montserrat Chief Minister William Henry Bramble.
The airport was abandoned on 25 June 1997 due to approaching negative effects of the eruption of the nearby Soufrière Hills volcano, which obliterated much of the southern part of the island. It had remained open up to this date.[1] For several years after, Montserrat was only accessible by helicopter or boat, until July 2005, when the new Gerald's Airport (now John A. Osborne Airport) was completed at the north end of the island (north of Saint Johns and south of Gerald's). The IATA airport code previously used by Bramble Airport, MNI, has now been transferred to the new airport. The remains of the airport were buried on 5 February 2010, when a vulcanian explosion propelled pyroclastic flows that reached as far as the airport.[2]
W. H. Bramble Airport was served by the following airlines:
- LIAT
- Winair
- Montserrat Airways
- Carib Aviation
- occasionally American Eagle Airlines
- ^ "Government of Montserrat, Soufriere Hills Notice 1997176_1".
- ^ "Montserrat Volcano Observatory". Montserratvolcanoobservatory.info. Retrieved 27 June 2014.