About The Airport

Welcome to Reunion Island!

Located at the crossroads of Asia and Africa, in the Indian Ocean, Reunion Island is a French overseas department 10,000 kms south from mainland.

Reunion Island Roland Garros Airport has been a major player in the island’s economic and tourist development for several decades, providing essential infrastructure to serve the territory and its population. The aeronautical history of Reunion Island started here in the hamlet of Gillot, where the first plane to land on the island touched down in 1929. It is now the site of France’s 11th biggest airport in terms of passenger numbers. It is named after Roland Garros, the pioneering aviator and hero of the First World War who was born on Reunion Island.
 

The main gateway in and out of Reunion Island, the airport has grown and modernised at the same time as the island and represents for the inhabitants an anchor point between Reunion Island and the rest of the world. The operator of Reunion Island Roland Garros Airport strives to cultivate this strong symbolic dimension.