Talk:Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport

Portiion of the island ?
I removed the statement "Yrausquin Airport covers a relatively large portion of the small island of Saba." I suppose that would be true of any small island with an airport, but it does not seem particularly significant, especially since the runway is about 0.05% of the total landmass. (Diego Garcia must be a higher percentage than that, for example.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.33.2.82 (talk) 19:41, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Picture
Added in a picture of the island showing the airport in the foreground. Thanks to copywright holder Tommy Mogren of www.vikingslides.com for allowing the use of this image! Burtonpe 02:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Shortest commercial runway?
Some people state that this is the shortest commercial runway. Is that actually the case? violet/riga (t) 18:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I've taken that claim out for now. (1) it's unsourced, and (2) it doesn't actually mean anything.  What's a "commercial runway" &mdash; any runway where a commercial flight lands and takes off?   That would include a 700 ft grass strip used by a crop-duster or a sight-seeing operation.  Is it any runway supporting scheduled airline service?  Perhaps this is the shortest runway, but you'd have to check other STOLports (e.g. in mountainous areas) first, and, of course, exclude helipads with scheduled service. David (talk) 19:04, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

I believe the comment is correct and should not have been removed. The definition of a "commercial airport" surely is one with a valid ICAO and IATA code that operates scheduled commercial flights. Uncoded "grass strips" in mountain or crop-duster strips are NOT included in that category. This strip has scheduled service provided by Winair at http://www.fly-winair.sx/.Ruthe (talk) 22:17, 22 July 2015 (UTC).

I also replaced the statement that the largest airplane to land and take off from Saba was a de Havilland Twin Otter [DHC-6 300] since a de Havilland Dash 7 [DHC-7] has made a successful landing and departure at Saba. . Ruthe (talk) 23:04, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

I've updated the phrasing to reflect the runway's status as the shortest commercial runway, and the runway at Simko Field Airport as the shortest non-commercial. Saba's airport has commercial flights; Simko's does not. -- Relatedly, do we need to even mention Simko? Anyone else think it should be removed? CareAhLine (talk) 18:42, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

With "I" or with "Y"?
The article's title is Juancho E. Yrausquin, yet at the very beggining it is possible to read "Juancho E. Irausquin Airport (IATA: SAB, ICAO: TNCS) is the only airport...". Now, wich is the right spelling? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.251.14.158 (talk) 17:15, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

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