East Timor airport is the most well known and major airport of Timor Leste. All the popular flights depart from this
East Timor airport. A number of flights take off and depart from this East Timor airport. East Timor's main airport is located in Dili. This airport has opened up their service of providing commercial flights from December 1999. An Indonesian flight was the first flight to land in the East Timor airport. All the flights stopped landing at
airport in East Timor due to the increasing violence on 30th August, 1999. The airport in Dili was a popular field for military landing during the period of violence. The international airport was closed down in East Timor after a man was shot down close to the airport.
Apart from the
Dili airport of East Timor, there are many other popular airports in East Timor. From this airport flights to different destination takes off. The tourists can book their flights on any of the available airlines in any of the following airports. The
major airports of East Timor are:
- Airport Same
- Airport Baucau
- Airport Com
- Airport Maubisse
- Airport Viqueque
- Airport Suai
- Los Palos
- Airport Tutula
- Airport Maliana
Quantas have started introducing their flights to this
airport in East Timor. They will provide the service of four days a week and two times in a day. They have provided this service due to the increasing demand of the Australian businessmen who travel to East Timor. Mr Dixon, the deputy chief executive officer of Quantas announced that six return flights in a week will be provided shortly. The tourists traveling to Timor Leste can fly through Australia, Darwin where Air North operates charter flights on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
